Suzy Glass

Producer and Cultural Consultant

Suzy Glass is an independent Producer and Cultural Consultant based in Scotland with more than fifteen years of experience working across the art, design and media sectors. She is interested in emerging and unusual contexts, focussing on sited and digital work. She specialises in bringing together design thinking with cultural projects to encourage innovation and systems change. She focusses increasingly on the role of creativity in inter-disciplinary projects and is particularly keen to explore ideas about the future of parenting, feminism, work and technology.

Suzy has been involved in initiating, developing and implementing a number of national strategic programmes over the past five years. Within Scotland these include Sync, Scotland’s internationally acclaimed digital innovation programme, and Sited+, a research programme addressing the impact and potential impact of sited work in Scotland. She was part of the Learning Team on the Nesta / ACE Digital R&D Fund for the Arts.

Major projects Suzy has recently developed and produced include: Message for the Skies for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay (2019), Ciara Phillip’s Every Woman (2016), co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW; Hanna Tuulikki’s Away with the Birds (2014 / 15), part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme and accompanied by a digital version created for the The Space; Yann Seznec’s Currents (2014), commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival as part of the PRSF New Music Biennial – winner of the Sonic Art category in the 2015 British Composer Awards; Sarah Kenchington’s Wind Pipes (2013), commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival.

Suzy is working as Executive Producer with theatre maker Clare Duffy to produce Civic Digit’s first major project, The Big Data Show – funded by Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government – and with dance artist Roberta Jean to develop a project about the use of Psychedelics in the treatment of mental health. She is working with Culture Perth & Kinross to design and implement a new approach to programming and producing, and with the Design Informatics team at the University of Edinburgh to develop a vision for Inspace – a collaborative hub where data meets creativity.

In the past Suzy has produced work with and for a number of arts and cultural organisations including the BBC, digital design studio ISO and museums including the London Transport Museum and the Museum of London. She began her career at Arts Council England where she worked as an Officer in the Capital Department.

Suzy was shortlisted for a 2016 Arts Foundation Fellowship. She is the proud mother of two very small people.