Following what it describes as ‘an extensive international search’, the Glasgow School of Art has appointed Professor Tom Inns as its new Director. Inns is currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and Director of Research in the College of Art, Science and Engineering at the University of Dundee. He will succeed Professor Seona Reid, who is stepping down from the role of Director after 14 years in the post.
Philip Rodney, Chair of the GSA Board of Governors and the Selection Panel said: “The appointment of Tom as the GSA’s next Director has been an extensive and thorough process which attracted a very strong field of national and international candidates. Tom’s calibre and clarity of ambition for the future means he is ideally placed to lead the GSA in the next and important stage of its development and successfully build on the School’s achievements in recent years.
“I am delighted that we have found an outstanding successor to Seona Reid. Seona has made an immeasurable contribution as Director of the GSA. The current standing of the School globally is testimony to that. Building on that platform, I believe that Tom Inns’ appointment heralds another equally exciting chapter in the GSA’s development.”
Professor Inns said: “The School has its own very particular history and provenance, a very distinctive portfolio of activity and all set within a dynamic, spirited city. The role of Director will be highly challenging, but enormously rewarding. I am excited by the opportunity to lead Scotland’s only specialist higher education institution for the visual creative disciplines, build on its current international reputation and unlock its future potential.”
Inns will join the GSA in early autumn 2013.
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