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Chris Carrell championed community engagement (Picture copyright Alan Wylie, 1989)
A visionary arts administrator who spent 13 years at the helm of Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, Chris Carrell was a crucial figure in shaping Glasgow’s successful bid to be 1990 City of Culture. His energy and ability to enable others helped shape the grassroots arts scene for which the city is now internationally recognised.
Born Ronald Christopher Carrell in Barnard Castle in 1941, he never knew the father after whom he was named, Pilot Officer Ronald Carrell, who died in a bombing raid in Germany in October 1940. After the war, his mother and stepfather, Frank Hutchins, moved to Kent.
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