Lucy Parker
Lucy Parker is an artist filmmaker and film educator living in London. Her film work explores spectrums of political and social practices that enable, or form barriers to, community led change. She is motivated by the desire to imagine and live in a way not built on dominance and extraction; this motivation informs her approach […]
Earth Month 2025 – Cultures of Action: Slow Travel Artists’ Residency
Saturday Studios – Cameraless Filmmaking
Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz is the artist based in Scotland awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 3 programme. Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded […]
Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi) is the Scottish artist awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 2 programme. A Scotsman of Nigerian origin, Chizu Anucha graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in structural engineering and architectural design, and holds a Master of Design in sound for the moving image from Glasgow […]
Chloe Charlton, Emily Charlton
Working with the Bolex, sisters Chloe and Emily Charlton use in-camera techniques such as single frame shooting and multiple exposures to explore geological vibrancy and liveliness. They are recipients of the Lateral Lab artists Correspondence collaboration of Autumn ‘22, a project that supported contemporary creative responses to the environment through an ecocentric spirit of exploration […]
Tamsin MacArthur
Tamsin MacArthur is a multi-media artist based in Glasgow and a recent graduate of Sculpture and Environmental art from the Glasgow School of Art. Her work explores dialogues between belief and the ‘actual’, and action and reaction, frequently working in response to spiritual and mythological ideas within the framework of an increasingly nihilistic western modernity. […]
Emily Beaney
Emily Beaney is an artist and researcher working with moving image. Her practice-based research seeks to communicate through the filmic body experiences of embodied difference and collective care. Centring upon narratives that may be difficult to articulate, the unseen / unheard, she utilises experimental and collaborative approaches to filmmaking to work with family, communities, artists, […]
Roger Suckling
Roger Suckling’s work is based around themes of location/place and autobiography/identity, using photography and moving image to explore place and time, to map a visual account of both the present and the past. A process of revisiting and recording significant locations is combined with a contemporary documentation of the everyday, offering a reinterpretation with new […]
Jenny Hogarth
Jenny Hogarth (b.1979, Scotland) is an artist based in Edinburgh. In 2022 Jenny showed new moving image works ‘Flow Co Motion’ (2022) and ‘If You Talk About The Volcano Will You Talk About Yourself’ (2022) at the Talbot Rice Gallery and the Freelands Foundation respectively. Other recent moving image works ‘Wild Thing’ (2019) and ‘Channelling’ […]
Becky Šik
Becky Šik is an artist filmmaker based in Glasgow and whose work spans moving image, installation, sound, music, writing and publishing. Becky’s recent moving image work explores the echo, electromagnetic phenomena and technologies as way of understanding the body’s relationship to constructs of time and state. Sound and experimental music are central to the work […]
Hope Strickland
Hope Strickland is a researcher and artist filmmaker from Manchester, UK, with current interests in postcolonial ecologies, queer, diasporic assemblages and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence. Recent work has explored black metamorphosis alongside taxonomies of imperial control; working across 16mm, digital and archival formats to question and disrupt the distances between myth, […]