Jackie Bell
After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]
Jo Arksey
Jo Arksey is an artist and creative facilitator who relishes working across various media. Although essentially abstract, her individual pieces evoke something recognisable. Reclaiming discarded materials through papermaking has for Jo, been a process of discovery and evolution, combining pulp with text, hair, metal and print in sculptural works and installations. Threads running through Jo’s […]
Priya
Olivia Priya Foster (she/they, b/.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Foster’s work focuses on rurality, specifically in Argyll, where she grew up on a farm. Foster explores her dual cultural identity and the intersections of South Asian and Scottish heritage. Often working with sculpture, performance, moving image and sound. Foster’s practice deals […]
Antonia Ablass
Antonia is a textile designer and artist from Berlin and Brandenburg. Growing up between the city and the countryside, her textile work is influenced by this duality and aims at bringing together plants, humans and other living things. Early in her textile-design studies, she began exploring the potential of textiles to reweave nature into the […]
Charlotte Bracho
Charlotte Bracho (born 1990, Venezuela) is an artist and designer currently living and working in France (Creuse). Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in textile thinking, exploring repetitive processes involving lines, light, folds, and patterns. Through video art, sculptures, and installations, she seeks to transform tangible materials into creations that evoke illusion and the imperceptible, driven […]
Ondine Gil
Ondine Gilson is a French painter based in Paris and the Dordogne. She explores the theme of immersion, focusing on how external and internal worlds reflect each other. Currently, she is interested in the energy, materials, and atmosphere of nature. Ondine’s instinctive and raw work layers acrylics, oils, and oil pastels, in search of matter […]
Jenny Mulder
Jenny Mulder merges storytelling with sculpture, crafting narratives and creating corresponding glass and ceramic pieces. Her art invites escapism, presenting imaginary artifacts and miniature worlds. In her latest project, she used hand-dug and processed clay to explore themes of time, location, and memory. Her work delves into the metaphysical nature of everyday objects, examining the items […]
David Osbaldeston
David Osbaldeston is a British artist who works across properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’. His work is often made to interfere with relationships between images and the poetic variables associated with language used to describe them. This is done through a thematic […]
NAARCA Residencies 2025
Highland Boundary Fault Art Commission
Harriina Räinä
Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019). Her recent projects include […]
Laura Haynes
Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2012-2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Master of Letters Art Writing postgraduate programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with […]