Following an open call for applications, we are delighted to announce the selection of four artists taking part in our 2026 NAARCA residency exchange.

Cecilia Fiona based in Copenhagen works across sculpture, painting and performance developing an interconnected practice in which each medium extends and informs the other. During her NAARCA Residency at Skaftfell Art Center in Iceland, Cecilia plans to create a new body of work – costumes made from wool and plants to be used in a new performance.

Hillside Projects is an artistic entity based in Stockholm and formed by Emily Berry Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern. During their NAARCA Residency at Cove Park, they will establish a temporary Office for Continuing Research on Birds focusing on Gandalf – a Rüppell’s Griffon vulture known for two high-profile escapes from the World of Wings Birds of Prey Centre in Cumbernauld in 2010 and 2014. HP aims to develop a new lecture performance, including relational birding activities and conceptual experiments in Argyll’s ancient woodland.

Christina Riley is a Scottish-American artist based in Ayrshire. Founder of The Nature Library and author of Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves, she works across photography, writing and installation to consider the stories told of and by the natural world, as well as the value of, and access to, these stories in times of climate, cost of living and misinformation crises. During her NAARCA Residency at Saari Residence in Finland, Christina will continue developing The Nature Library with the aim to move it toward new, ambitious spaces.

Read more about these artists and the NAARCA Residencies programme at naarca.art