Who We Are.
Clifftop Projects exists to bring high quality artistic activity to people across West Dunbartonshire. We specialise in working with a wide age range of participants in dance, visual arts and other art forms believing that creativity has no age limit!
Lottie Barker (SHE/HEr)
Artistic Director
I am a producer and creative arts facilitator based in Dumbarton. I started up Clifftop Projects in April 2020 to better engage with my local community in West Dunbartonshire and ensure equal access to the arts.
I’ve danced my whole life with both my mum and grandma being dance teachers. I began assisting with teaching at an early age and completed my Teaching Training with the British Ballet Organisation achieving Distinction in Level 5 in 2016.
I began working as a producer with Scottish Dance Theatre’s education department whilst I was still at University- I ran their Great Big Dance Show with community groups from across Scotland for three years. Since then I have had a varied career in the arts working with organisations such as Arts 4 Dementia, the British Ballet Organisation, Dance House Glasgow, Joan Cleville Dance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre and Hydra Arts. As a producer and community arts facilitator, I enjoy ensuring that the arts can be accessible for all and am passionate about working with those with barriers or perceived barriers to participation.
Youth Voices
Youth Voices is the title for all our Youth Advisory work which takes many forms from facilitated forums and events to drop in activities that allow us to access what young people in our community think, feel and need. If you are interested in helping shape the future of Clifftop Projects and are under 25 get in touch with lottie@clifftopprojects.co.uk
Board of Directors
oli higham
Oli (he/him) is a church pastor with a background in community arts, youth work and community development. He is based within Dumbarton and alongside leading a church and managing The Phoenix (a community centre run by the church where Clifftop Projects deliver some of their work) works within the fields of visual arts and spoken word.
He enjoys board games, comic books and spray-paint. He is also a former TV chef, regularly smashes his head off low door frames, and can speak Romanian very badly.
Maeve Dixon
Maeve (she/her) is Arts Development Officer for West Dunbartonshire Council. She has a background in heritage and the arts and is a practising artist. She enjoys playing and wants to encourage everyone to never stop playing!
She has a Pokemon loving son and has worked in West Dunbartonshire for 14 years.
Katie McGroarty
Katie (she/her) is an artist originally from the Vale of Leven in West Dunbartonshire. She studied in Edinburgh and achieved a BA(hons) in Intermedia (Fine Art) from the Edinburgh college of Art at the University of Edinburgh, before completing an MFA in Art and Humanities at DJCAD in 2022. After her MFA at DJCAD, Katie joined the operational committee of Generator Projects, predominantly working in policy, on the community space, the public library as well as public outreach.
In January of 2024, she founded the Dundee Artists Database due to lack of visibility for artists in Dundee, since then Katie has begun research into setting up other databases to assist artists throughout Scotland.