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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 (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 […]
Betsey Kilpatrick, born in Leicester, currently lives and works in Edinburgh. Her practice explores the often unspoken relationship between nature and human consciousness. Through painting, she experiments with the dialogue between image and process, seeking not only to depict nature but also to embody its essence and vitality. She attended Wimbledon College of Art, London, […]
Vivian (Nan Viv) Dwardinan Brockman Webb is a Dordenup Wardandi matriarchal Elder of the South West region of Western Australia, Wardan country. She has worked for many years to raise awareness of the importance of language and culture for future generations. In 2003, Nan Viv travelled with daughter Mitchella and French/Australian photographer Martine Perret to […]
Mitchella Hutchins is an Aboriginal Australian tool maker, painter, and land artist. Her work is held in many private collections and has been exhibited in Perth and Southwest Australia. She is also a prominent Aboriginal businesswoman and was a presenter on GWN7’s Milbindi program and a lecturer at Western Australian University on Indigenous topics and […]