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Molly Astley

Molly Astley is an artist, poet and musician based in London. Her work is concerned with nature, the body, and the porous boundary between the two. Lead often by improvisational, automatic processes, her practice starts from a place of embodiment and sensory awareness. Recent projects have explored the relationship between the ecological health of the environment, personal […]

Open Residency
Ailie Robertson

Ailie Robertson

Ailie Robertson is a multi-award-winning Scottish composer and musician who has been commissioned to compose works by some of the worlds’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the BBC Proms, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Cappella Nova, the Riot Ensemble, Exaudi, Scottish Ensemble and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. She holds […]

Magnetic North: Space/Time
Morven Macbeth

Morven Macbeth

Morven Macbeth is an actor, theatre maker and facilitator based in Scotland. She is an Associate Practitioner with UK theatre company imitating the dog, whose work has, for over 20 years, explored the boundaries between theatre and technology. Morven has toured extensively both nationally and internationally, performing as well as facilitating workshop programmes and leading […]

Magnetic North: Space/Time
A Black woman wearing a protective, braided hairstyle, leans against a large glass window and looks out toward her shoulder. Through the windows, you can see a lush, green landscape, Loch Long, and the hills of Cowal Peninsula.

Mele Broomes

Mele Broomes’ work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Her work GRIN was presented at Battersea Art Centre, London, alongside the film production which was also screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre, where she […]

Awarded Residency
Nic Green

Nic Green

Nic Green is an award-winning performance maker based in Scotland, known for her works Cock and Bull, TURN, Fatherland, Slowlo, Trilogy, Vivarium. Her work is varied in style and method, spanning dance, theatre, site-specific, sonic and sculptural works, with forms often ‘found’ through collaborative and relational practices with communities, place and material. Her work has […]

Awarded Residency

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News 23 March 2022
Andrea Ling

Andrea Ling

Andrea Ling is an interdisciplinary artist (director, writer, dramaturg & practitioner) who advocates for social change and connection through art. Her work falls within theatre, installation, film and visual arts. Andrea was a recent recipient of the Jerwood Live Work award, 2020. Currently her practice explores de-colonial approaches to environmentalism developing co-created/ co-curated art projects […]

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Dylan Gray

Carys D. Coburn

Carys D. Coburn is a trans writer from Dublin. Their work is political, playful, funny, angry, strange. They were the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong — co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival. Other plays include Absent The Wrong (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2022) and […]

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John Darvell

John Darvell

John Darvell creates thought-provoking, darkly cinematic, twisted scenarios which are firmly rooted in the here and now. His choreography explores human realities, laying bare individual vulnerabilities, so often wounded and unseen in the new world order of mega-corporate faceless forces. John’s professional journey into dance began in his late 30’s when he took the courageous […]

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Amy Conway

Amy Conway

Amy Conway is a Theatre Maker, Actor, Facilitator, Playwright, Director, Clown and Civil Celebrant based in Glasgow who experiments with form and collaborates with a variety of interdisciplinary theatre makers and community groups. She is an Associate Director at Loop Theatre, who make inclusive performance work with learning disabled adults. As a theatre maker, Amy’s […]

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Alison Burnley

Alison Burnley

Alison Burnley is a creative producer with a focus on supporting communities and emerging artists to share their stories through theatre, ceremony and song. Whether reimagining folk tales and feasting on medieval bread; or contemplating what we’re thankful for whilst lighting floating bonfires, she creates experiential works that provoke the mind and gives voice to […]

Winter Subsidised Residencies

Katrine Turner

If Our Trees Could Talk is a new storytelling commission focused on the unique habitats of Scotland’s rainforests and those who live and work in these unique environments. The commission and related residency was awarded in February 2022 to the Glasgow-based artist Katrine Turner. Katrine works between live performance, film and participation. She creates work […]

Year of Stories Residency