Saturday Studios – Creative Campaigners 2
Sayan Chanda
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]
Saturday Studio – Creative Campaigners
Project Studio – Youth Voice
NAARCA Residencies 2025
Katie Schwab
Katie Schwab works with textiles and installation to explore personal, social and material histories of craft, design and education. Her research focuses on twentieth century domestic interiors, civic architecture and play environments. Embedded in the communities and contexts in which she works, Katie’s long-term projects incorporate collaborative workshops, archival research and craft- based learning. Katie […]
Toben Lewis
Toben Lewis, a dedicated bibliophile and professional bookbinder, operates from the Scottish island of Iona. Initially trained as a graphic designer with a specialisation in books, Toben discovered a passion for bookbinding and honed his skills through self-education and advanced studies with master bookbinders. Inspired by Iona’s natural beauty and historical significance, he produces books […]
Saturday Studios – Pattern Disrupters
Associates Artists in Schools Residency 2024
Laura Lightbody & Kerry McGhee
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Frances Priest
At the heart of Frances Priest’s practice is a long held interest in clay, it’s associated craft processes and the objects that emerge from using it to make things by hand. The resulting work can reach toward drawing, printmaking, installation, participation, collaboration, design and architectural additions or interventions. Beyond the studio she works on educational […]
Jessica Hemmings
Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. She also writes about fiction that contains textiles, materials that remind us of textiles and other things. She studied Textile Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA (Honors) in 1999 and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, […]