Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah
Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. This gathering is facilitated through a project they established in 2019 called ‘Other Cinemas’ which regularly hosts community screening and discussions in Brent, which centre Black and […]
Anne-Marie Copestake
Anne-Marie Copestake is an artist living and working in Glasgow. Attentive to daily acts, acts of refusal, tenderness, narrative, oral history, temporary and longer term communities, her work is concerned with social political conditions surrounding choices, or a lack of choices, and an exploration of histories and environments that may have contributed. Anne-Marie often works […]
Aqsa Arif
Aqsa Arif is a Scottish-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Her practice explores themes of syncretic identity, displacement, and cultural dissonance, often grounded in the narrative structures of folklore, mythology, and cinematic language. Navigating these realms through the lens of her own dual identity and lived experience, she […]
Rebecca Stenfors
Rebecca Stenfors is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in London with a Finnish-Swedish background. Her practice meditates on homecoming as a chosen fiction where narration, diary-keeping and oral storytelling traditions become processes of returning to that which is out of reach. She is fascinated by the illusory proximity and connection of the souvenir, which […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
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. […]