Tabitha (Tabi) Mudaliar

Creative Director, since 2023. Previously Creative Producer from 2018 – 2023

Tabi is proud to be the Creative Director of DG Unlimited. She started working with the Board and team in 2018 as the charity’s Creative Producer and was appointed by the Board as Creative Director in 2023. Tabi’s focus is on developing, supporting and showcasing the creative sector in this region. Dumfries and Galloway has been her home for over forty years and she has worked in and served the third and public sectors for thirty-five years beginning in the D&G Council Museums and Libraries service. Her impressive career to date includes senior executive and leadership roles in Community and Economic Development for Dumfries and Galloway Council, Campaign, Brand and Marketing for VisitScotland across the south of Scotland, and Tourism and Economic Development leading a cross-border strategic partnership with The Southern Upland Partnership and Scottish Borders Council on behalf of Dumfries and Galloway Council. She has also led for various third and private sector organisations in the UK, Australia, and Europe. Tabi is an engaging and popular radio broadcast journalist and public speaker, often asked to host cultural events and interview authors and special guests. She has broadcast for BBC Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland, South of Scotland and her weekly show, TotallyTabi on Alive 107.3 fm in Dumfries is popular around town and beyond! Tabi is a published Writer and a credited Producer of art, feature and documentary film. She is proud to be a Trustee and Secretary for Alchemy Film & Arts in Hawick in the Scottish Borders, and is an active participant in the creative cultural community right across the South of Scotland, and in Scotland. Tabi has an extensive network of contacts and colleagues in culture, literature, film, and media. She is passionate about widening access to the arts for all, especially for underrepresented people, not only members of ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities, but those who are economically, geographically, and socially excluded. In everything she does, Tabi demonstrates how important it is that her work, and the work of DG Unlimited, actively leads and helps break down the barriers preventing people from experiencing and participating in arts and culture in our region and in Scotland. Tabi is a warm, approachable and dynamic leader who is leading DG Unlimited in a vibrant, exciting, innovative and positive direction and into the next phase of its work strategically supporting and advocating for the creative sector in our region, in Scotland and beyond.

Contact Tabi – hello@dgunlimited.org

David Wright

Financial Administration Officer, since 2022

David’s previous career was based in London and Bristol  in Supply Chain Management and the safe movement of high security goods for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice, UK Government. In the noughties David moved back home to Dumfries and Galloway to enjoy a quieter life and live rurally.
David is now semi-retired and enjoys using his business, project management and financial skills to support arts organisations and charities in Dumfries and Galloway. David works with our Treasurer and the management team. He has been instrumental in updating and fully maintains our financial, qualitative and quantitative data recording and reporting. David is a popular member of the team, always welcoming and helpful to DG Unlimited members and the public. He is DG Unlimited’s business and financial advisor and a support to the Board of Trustees and the entire team but he is also our resident book, film, and music enthusiast and is a friend to all of us. David does not like the limelight but we did manange to get him to share some thoughts on his role for DG Unlimited, “I’m proud to be part of the DG Unlimited team, and to be serving the creative sector in our beautiful region. We have so much creativity around us and within our communities – we need to keep supporting it.” David lives in the glorious Southern Uplands, where he walks and cycles every day.



Contact David – finance@dgunlimited.org

Cerys Cooper

Creative Communications Assistant, since 2026

Cerys Cooper is a creative professional based in Dumfries and Galloway.
With a background in music business, achieving an honours degree at University of
the West of Scotland, Cerys has a keen interest and rich skillset covering many aspects
of the creative industries. These range from gig photography, visual art, artist management and Dumfries-based music festival, Hidden Gem Festival, which Cerys founded and continues to direct and produce. Hidden Gem Festival was an idea born out of a love for the local art scene in D&G and a love for the pubs. These places are the heartbeat of the community and artists are the voice of that heartbeat. Hidden Gem Festival celebrates what the region has to offer – the places and people who create and drive the scene. Cerys loves live music and working alongside the many incredible and talented people who help bring her crearive ideas to life.

Beatrix Wood

Creative Producer, since 2026

Beatrix sculpts stories for the head and the heart with her words, visual art and cameras.  She explores our dynamic relationship with each other and the natural world.  She inspires and challenges audiences to interact with the themes of her work.  Her latest film “Tim Stead: Magician With Wood” has been screened worldwide and won 5 prizes, including Best UK Woman Director – Feature Documentary on Climate Change 2025. Born in the USA, Beatrix grew up at the base of the Pennines.  She graduated from the School of Film and Television in Manchester with a Special Commendation then trained in feature film production.  She became a Screenwriter and Producer and made internationally award-winning cultural and political documentary films with Finnish Director Pekka Lehto.  

Beatrix moved to the Outer Hebrides in 2010 and had her first solo exhibitions on Uist and undertook residencies at Cove Park and in Lapland. She farmed native animals as a crofter and became a self-shooting Director/Producer/Editor. She made a series of creative documentary films about the unique Hebridean culture for BBC Alba through her company TrixPixMedia. She has also been Executive Producer on a number of feature documentary films with Director Anthony Baxter for BBC Scotland and Sky Arts. Now based near Dumfries, Beatrix is currently writing a creative non-fiction book and working on a range of creative and environmental projects.

Beatrix joins us as Creative Producer working on DG Unlimited members events and Creative Compass projects.

Rebecca Gibin

Researcher, since 2026

Rebecca has been selected to support the Creative North Star project, where she will work alongside the Creative Director and the DG Unlimited team on their research project, Creative North Star: Developing Creative Talent Through Mentorship.

She was drawn to the project because of her love for the cultural sector in Dumfries and Galloway and her own experience of mentoring. Since moving to the region in 2013, Rebecca has worked for a number of arts organisations, including Wigtown Festival Company, Spring Fling (as it was then) and DG Unlimited.

More recently, she has worked in the wider charitable and communities sector, supporting organisations and the people in them to build their capacity, skills and confidence.

Rebecca was lucky to be chosen as a 2023 recipient of a Compass Bursary from Wigtown Festival Company, which included the opportunity to be mentored by a published author. The experience elevated her writing and she continues to write fiction that may one day have an audience. 

She has also witnessed the transformational effect of being a mentor as part of a project for Scottish Government with women from marginalised communities and identities. As well as supporting women to have a voice with policy makers and those in positions of power, she learned a huge amount personally and professionally from each of the women she worked with.

She is looking forward to helping shape a mentoring framework for DG Unlimited, which recognises the uniqueness of our region along with its strengths and challenges.

Alycia Pirmohamed

DG Unlimited is delighted to welcome Alycia Pirmohamed to the wider team for a year as she takes up her role as the Gavin Wallace Fellow. The Fellowship is an annual residencey formed and suported by Creative Scotland, to honour the late Dr Gavin Wallace. We are delighted to have Alycia spend a year focussing on Dumfries and Galloway and spending time with us in the region as she explores the themes of UNFOLDING Scotland during her year as fellow.

Alycia Pirmohamed shared recently, “It’s an absolute honour to have been selected as The Dr Gavin Wallace fellow and I very much look forward to exploring the theme, UNFOLDING Scotland. My proposed project, tentatively titled Even Now the Waterline Wavers, is a cross-genre collection that explores hybridity both as a subject and in form. It considers the connections between homeland – with all of its slippery definitions – ecology, and the Anthropocene, and is guided by questions of how embodiment and the legacies of colonialism and capitalism affect how we interact with the natural world.”

A little about Alycia…

Alycia is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut Shorelines, forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water. In 2026, Alycia received the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship with Creative Scotland and DG Unlimited.

She is part of ‘field notes collective’, a nature writing project alongside Jessica J. Lee, Nina Mingya Powles and Pratyusha. this too is a glistening, their collaborative pamphlet, was published by Bitter Melon 苦瓜 in 2024. Her other works include the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.

If you would like to reach out to Alycia please email comms.dgu@gmail.com

Could this be you?

Would you like to join our team? Keep an eye out for vacancies and opportunities to join our team.

Check our Opportunities page for information and how to apply when a commission comes available. In the mean time, we warmy invite you to join us as a DG Unlimited Member here if you have not already, and join our Talent Pool to hear about creative commissions.