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 […]
Christina Sporrong
Christina Sporrong is an interdisciplinary artist, metal sculptor and welding and blacksmithing teacher. She spent most of her career living and working in Taos, New Mexico, where she had the space and resources in her shop, Spitfire Forge, to build large scale sculpture. She uses size, fire, sound and movement to provoke a reaction and […]
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Artist Announcement
Bobby Niven
Bobby Niven works with found objects and sculpture to explore and construct places. Sometimes working with an existing place, drawing on the context and history as a starting point for new projected narratives. At other times the place is constructed through an installation of assembled sculptures. His sculptures bring together anthropomorphic objects with more solemn, […]
Jo Birch
Jo Birch is unfolding and developing as a photographer and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip […]
Abigail Fletcher-Dry
Abigail Fletcher-Drye is a British mixed-media artist working across textiles, paint, ceramics, and digital media to assemble a playful menagerie of stuff that tests the possibilities of material form. Using cartoon-like fragments, disembodied limbs and heightened sensory organs, she explores the physical and metaphysical limits of materials. Influenced by new materialism, her work treats matter […]
Magnetic 4 Residency Announced
Faye Yan and IChin Liao
Faye Yan and IChin Liao are an artist duo working between memory, intuition, and material transformation. Their shared practice emerges through dialogue between performance, painting, sound, and lived experience. Faye Yan (born in Beijing, based in Manchester) works across performance, painting, and durational practice, tracing visceral sensations of the body and their relationship to memory, […]
NAARCA Residencies 2026
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 […]
Shona K. Noble
Shona Noble is an artist and researcher based between Islay and Glasgow. She is currently working on ‘Islay Nine’; a series of prints which explore where Islay’s industrial architecture coincides with domestic architecture and the natural landscape. Her process uses analogue photography and field sketches using charcoal, pastels and watercolour. She brings these to Glasgow […]
Anna Chapman Parker
Anna Chapman Parker is an artist, writer and teacher whose work explores relationships between drawing, writing, body and place. Past exhibitions or commissions include projects for Edinburgh Art Festival, The University of Glasgow, Cample Line and Commonroom.co. She has taught drawing at The Royal College of Art, The Futures Institute and in weedy carparks. As […]