Maria Howard
The Scottish Artists Union delivers a programme of bespoke workshops, courses and events throughout the year. The Learning Programme creates opportunities for all members to undertake training to improve their sector skills, address the barriers to freelance work, and participate fully as workers within the sector. How to Write is a residential course for Scottish Artists […]
Nilam Sari
Nilam Sari is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their research and art practice focus on grief and technology–specifically the way we grieve through technology, as well as the way we grieve the technology itself. By using woodworking and electronic arts as their primary mediums, they explore these topics by creating work ranging from […]
Languid Hands
Languid Hands is a London-based artistic and curatorial collaboration between DJ, filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot, and interdisciplinary writer and artist Imani Mason Jordan (fka Imani Robinson). Their practice explores collaboration, curation, black study and experimentation across exhibitions, moving image, text, performance, publications and public programming, alongside peer-led artists development and residencies. They began collaborating […]
City As A Spaceship
City As A Spaceship (CAAS) is a new way of thinking about humans and their relationships with their habitats, transporters and their environment, an intelligent way of designing future cities, such that each city can be composed of small, spaceship like closed-loop eco-systems where most resources the city consumes, are produced locally, in-situ, leveraging the […]
Simon Bor
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’. His printmaking practice dates back to his time at the Cambridge School of Art, and later, St Martin’s School of Art. He went on to study animation at West Surrey College […]
Heather Mathew
In October 2021, I attended an online presentation “Glacial Narratives” hosted by the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist, about artistic responses to climate change. This inspired me to secure two artist residencies on the Island of Lewis in March and in Iceland in May to further my work on climate change. As a papermaker, I […]
Eilidh McLaughlin, Anne Lopez, Michael Henry
UNFIX is an arts festival based in Scotland programming work concerned with ecological crisis, climate change and hyper-capitalism. UNFIX started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015 and now run events there and in New York City (US), Tokyo (Japan) and Bologna (Italy). We conceive of individual human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts […]
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Hannah Brackston
Hannah Brackston is a socially engaged artist based in Glasgow, creating site specific artworks responding to the relationships between people and their environment. Born in Leeds, Hannah studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art. She graduated in 2011, receiving the David Harding Public Art prize. Since then Hannah has undertaken a wide range of […]
Anne Waggot Knott
I am a geographer, printmaker, emerging artist, and writer. I maintain a strong focus on the places and spaces where we pause to connect with our environment, and our journeys through it, both physical and metaphorical. Following a deliberate escape from a corporate university career I now use art to provoke questions and conversation. Relief […]
Bonnie Radcliffe
Bonnie Radcliffe is a writer whose work explores storytelling and the sea, women and water, nature, motherhood and folklore. She loves exploring character, especially the seemingly mundane or unappreciated, and uses setting to evoke a strong sense of mood. She would be adrift without stories. While primarily a writer, Bonnie also paints and draws, and […]
Amy Pennington
Amy Pennington makes work that uses humour to connect human experiences and socio-political issues. They use everyday materials and accessible processes to challenge the binaries of ‘high and low art’, often using queer mechanisms such as campness or satire Amy makes drawings, books, DIY film and improvised performance. Amy has made work within institutions as […]