Young Gaelic Writer Residency
Polly Barton
Polly Barton is a writer and translator of Japanese literature and nonfiction. Her essays and translations have been published by The White Review, Words Without Borders, Granta, and Monkey. Full-length translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017), Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press/Soft Skull Press, 2020), There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury, […]
Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies
Carrie Rhys-Davies
Carrie Rhys-Davies is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Bristol. For fifteen years Carrie focused on her work as a creative producer, collaborating with a wide range of artists and companies to develop and produce performance and engagement projects through roles with Tobacco Factory Theatres, Theatre Bristol, Bristol Old Vic, Terrestrial, Bristol Festival of Puppetry […]
Winter Subsidised Residencies 2022
Laura Castagnini
Laura Castagnini is a curator and writer interested in the histories of feminism and their current articulations, especially as they intersect with the politics of sexuality and race, and their expression in modern and contemporary art. She was (until March 2021) Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art, at Tate, where she curated monographic displays […]
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet, playwright, performer and director. The Drift, her autobiographical lyric play, toured Scotland as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Season 2019. In 2020, she was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award by Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland and selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our […]
Katrina Palmer
Katrina Palmer locates sculpture in writing, situating bodies and objects between physical presence and their replacement with words. Fragmented narratives navigate unstable landscapes and experiences of being non-identical with, or absent from, the social space. Alongside the writing, the work includes found sites, found objects, audio recordings, performance and appropriated signs. Among her publications and […]
Felicity Barrow
Felicity Barrow is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across performance, installation, drawing, painting and writing. Her practice currently explores experiences of self, other and environment; rituals of hope and healing; and belief in planes of existence that lie beyond the bounds of our general perception. She trained in fine art (BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2014) […]
Roy Claire Potter
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental writing to think through the production of subtext in speaker-listener interactions, which they extended to readerly encounters with a page. The operation of interpersonal violence is a prevalent theme within their work, as are the motifs of domestic sound, bodily comportment, spatial and group dynamics. Potter’s live […]
Gregor Verwijmeren
Dutch writer Gregor Verwijmeren studied Language and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and guitar at the conservatory in the same town. He published fiction in – among others – De Gidsand Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. In 2018 De vorm van geluid (The shape of sound) was published by Van Oorschot, the oldest surviving […]
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 […]