Ayda Pakzad Afshar
Ayda Pakzad Afshar is an Iranian visual artist and curator based in Scotland, working across collage, painting, installation and image-based research. Her practice explores the body as a site where visibility, memory and systems of representation meet. Working with existing images, archival material and found visual language, she cuts, layers, obscures and reassembles them, often […]
Cynthia Young
Cynthia Young is an atmospheric landscape painter whose work explores the quiet power and emotional presence of the natural world. Drawn to shifting light, expansive skies, and the subtle moods of changing landscapes, she creates paintings that exist somewhere between observation, memory, and feeling. Her work often begins with a moment of stillness, the weight […]
Rahel Levine
This partnership with Visual Arts Scotland makes possible two-week fully-funded residencies designed to support research and the development of new work. Rahel Levine is an artist working in sculpture and text to explore the function of image, object and material in connection to the physical and psychological boundaries of our interior and exterior worlds. Building […]
Evie Rose Thornton
This partnership with Visual Arts Scotland makes possible two-week fully-funded residencies designed to support research and the development of new work. Evie Rose Thornton’s practice bridges the gap between viewers and the natural landscape, untangling ecosystems that structure every aspect of the environment around us. By nature, her work is interdisciplinary, as she responds organically […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image. Reactivating expired and obsolete materials and working with low-toxicity methods including plant-based photographic developers, Demelza works in the (un)natural landscape around her, considering themes of human – more-than-human relationships, time and traces and politics of land, botany and medicine. Having worked with homegrown […]
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency 2027
Shore Photography Residency: Open Studio
Lauren Doughty
Lauren Doughty is an artist working with drawing, layered mark-making and print. Her practice is built around processes she can’t fully control — images are rarely imagined in advance, emerging instead through an accumulation of marks, colour and internal symbolism. Informed by the natural world, her work builds imagined landscapes that sit between the abstract […]
René Lazový
The Smith Residency is a residency for a visual artist and recent graduate of either The Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, or University of the Arts London. René Lazový (b. 1998, Bratislava) is a Slovak artist based in London whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, painting, installation and drawing. His work explores […]
Laura Lightbody & Kerry McGhee
Laura Lightbody is a ceramic artist based in Glasgow producing bold and contemporary functional ceramic pieces. The items that Laura slip cast are simple, geometric forms with surface pattern that is derived from motifs and graphics from the everyday. Each piece is designed, produced and decorated by hand ensuring each form is individual. Alongside a […]
Charlie Prodger
Charlie Prodger is a visual artist living in Glasgow and working with drawing, moving image, sculpture and writing. Their work orbits histories, from the weight of deep geological time to more contingent narrative forms such as anecdote and oral history. Through the lens of queer subjectivity, they explore intertwined relations between the body, landscape, language, […]
Noura Alserkal
Noura Alserkal (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice excavates the relationship between the visible and the invisible. Working across sculpture, installation, jewellery, textiles, and archival research, she explores family history and inherited narratives through archival research and re-engineered histories, uncovering overlooked and often taboo stories. She counters expected materiality with an interrogation of […]