We are delighted to welcome four new members to Articulation’s Board of Directors.
As a small team, Articulation’s Board is essential to our success, providing strategic expertise and challenging questions that help us fulfil our goals and hold us accountable. Following a recent recruitment process, our new members represent a diverse group of artists, producers, and circus specialists from across Scotland. They bring extensive experience not only in outdoor arts and spectacle but also in multi-artform and cross-sector work. Our new Board members include three new Trustees and the appointment of our first Treasurer – a vital and much-needed role for us as we continue to grow.
Shirley Alexander (Treasurer)
Shirley is a qualified CIMA accountant with over 25 years’ experience across global organisations and the not-for-profit sector. She is co-founder and Finance Director of Community Circus Paisley CIC, where she supports inclusive circus arts programmes that promote creativity, wellbeing, and access. She brings strong financial stewardship and a values-led approach to sustaining community-led arts and social impact.
Riccardo Olivier
Riccardo is a producer, choreographer, and advocate with extensive experience in the international arts sector. After co-founding Fattoria Vittadini, he managed major venues and festivals, including the award-winning Festival del Silenzio. His work is defined by a commitment to Deaf art forms, leading initiatives like the Beyond Signs project. Currently producing for MoonSlide in Scotland and Italy, Riccardo’s diverse portfolio includes directing for opera and cinema, alongside his work as an international trainer and facilitator.
Manuela de los Rios
Manuela de los Rios is a Dundee-based artist and community organiser. Her socially engaged practice and research is focused on regenerative placemaking projects that nurture people and urban nature. Her interactive performances, public installations and experiences are grounded in local skills, stories and collective imagination and making.
Luke Winter
Luke Winter is an outdoor artist who makes public spaces more playful. Working with storytelling, writing and sculpture outdoors, his work is participatory and always includes strangers in creation. He runs Story Wagon CiC, is a fan of rural touring, writes and is developing new work for international festivals.
About Articulation
Our vision is that Scotland is a place where outdoor arts, circus and spectacle can flourish, now and in the future.