Anna Ferris
Anna joined Forgan Arts Centre in 2018 and is the Studio & Operations Coordinator. Anna has been developing the new artist studio programme and facilities. The centre is now home to ten studios for artists across art forms including visual art, sound, and textiles. Anna leads the Allotment Project. We have 20 private allotments for […]
Mariam Syed
In April 2025, weaver and textile artist Mariam Syed continued her Bernat Klein Fellowship with a two-week residency at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Mariam Syed is a textile designer, weaver and digital/craft researcher committed to developing an advanced practice that combines craft with digital. Mariam’s tacit knowledge and craft experience in […]
Charlotte Bracho
Charlotte Bracho (born 1990, Venezuela) is an artist and designer currently living and working in France (Creuse). Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in textile thinking, exploring repetitive processes involving lines, light, folds, and patterns. Through video art, sculptures, and installations, she seeks to transform tangible materials into creations that evoke illusion and the imperceptible, driven […]
Dan Zell
Dan Zell is a designer and writer based in Norwich, currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at UEA. His fiction delves into themes of identity, belonging, and solitude, exploring how these experiences are constructed through uniform, ritual, and inherited symbols, and how collective experiences and materiality shape personal narratives. Dan is the founder of The […]
NAARCA Residencies 2025
The Bernat Klein Fellowships Symposium
Saturday Studios – Pattern Disrupters
Moira Nilsson
Moira Nilsson is a textile artist based in Sweden. She explores in detail fibres, structures, and surfaces to find both the tension and the ‘merge’ between different techniques and materials, such as wool, linen, weave and felt. She challenges traditional techniques and conventional ways of using materials to find their hidden possibilities. Nilsson often creates […]
Mariam Syed
Mariam Syed is a textile designer, weaver and digital/craft researcher committed to developing an advanced practice that combines craft with digital. Mariam’s tacit knowledge and craft experience in both Pakistan and Scotland empowers her to take charge of the ever advancing technologies to research and reinterpret traditional techniques and weave structures. She designs and weaves […]
Eva Oosterlaken
Eva Oosterlaken (she/her) is a Rotterdam-based social designer and researcher. In 2020 she founded creative studio Futurall, together with London-based designer and foresight practitioner Finn Strivens. Futurall develops creative approaches to involve more people in shaping the future: whether that’s through bringing diverse voices into decision-making, creating spaces for place-based imagination, or creating meaningful opportunities […]
Bernat Klein Fellowships 2025
Linda Brothwell
Linda Brothwell studied Metalwork and Jewellery at Sheffield Hallam University and went on to receive an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2009. Brothwell is fascinated by the history of objects and how they have been and are interacted with. The use and knowledge of tools […]