T H E

5 4

NICOLA STURGEON YES MINISTER

There is no more inl uential i gure in Scotland today than Nicola Sturgeon. During the 2015 election campaign, such a buzz surrounded her that English voters could be seen on TV lamenting the fact they couldn’t vote SNP. Following the party’s election triumph, Sturgeon exchanged quips with comedian Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour ranked her top of its Power List ahead of Anna Wintour and Angelina Jolie, and Sturgeon capped off her year interviewing Val McDermid at the Edinburgh Book Festival. (SH)

SARAH MUNRO ART DIRECTOR

In the year of probably her most signii cant achievement as Glasgow’s head of arts the Turner Prize coming to Tramway Sarah Munro left to become director of Gateshead’s BALTIC Centre. She leaves a signii cant legacy from her time as head of arts, director of Glasgow’s Tramway and boss of Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery, including the co-production of 2014’s milestone, the nationwide GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. (DP)

3

KATHRYN JOSEPH SAY WINNER

In June, Aberdeen’s best-kept musical secret Kathryn Joseph (pictured here with musical partner Marcus Mackay) became the i rst woman to win the Scottish Album of the Year award, for Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled. Her collection was judged to be ‘the most outstanding’ Scottish album released between January 2014 and March 2015, which we reckon is pretty outstanding indeed. She teamed up with Scottish Ballet to create the video for her single ‘The Bird’, and performance-wise, she appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, and has played gigs up and down the country. Let’s hope by 2016, the Kathryn Joseph secret is well and truly out. (RM)

SUPPORTED BY

44 THE LIST 5 Nov 2015–4 Feb 2016

I

P H O T O © S C O T T S H G O V E R N M E N T

P H O T O © J A N N C A H O N E Y

I