Design Ecologies
RSA Residencies for Scotland
Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
Clare Milledge
Clare Milledge (b 1977) lives and works in Warrang/Sydney Cove (AU) on unceded Bidjigal and Gadigal Country. Distinguished for her hinterglasmalerei paintings—a reverse-glass technique rooted in Byzantine traditions—Milledge engages abstraction, fragmentation, and encryption, creating text-based, geometric and figurative paintings and installations. Using adapted fieldwork methodologies she draws upon and reimagines contemporary environments, cultivating a polymorphic […]
Kelly Money
Kelly Money’s recent work includes meditations on place and on landscape as a metaphor for emotional states. She uses a limited palette and draws inspiration from artists such as Turner and Inness for their mix of realism and imagination to evoke a sense of mystery and wonder. Kelly holds a BFA from Mason Gross School […]
Leena Nammari
Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist based in Scotland. Using predominantly printmaking techniques, her practice explores the lived, remembered and mythologised experiences from a Palestinian perspective. She has lived in Scotland for over 35 years and has worn many hats during these years. One of her hats is that she worked at Edinburgh Printmakers as […]
Sekai Machache
Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist, film-maker and curator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self, in which photography plays a crucial role in supporting an exploration of the historical and cultural imaginary. Aspects of her photographic practice are formulated through digital studio-based compositions utilising […]
Sheena Mathieson
Sheena Mathieson is an Australian visual artist and community arts facilitator, whose varied practice is united by a distinctive play of colour, form and texture. Sheena has a particular interest in experimental printmaking, in combination with other media, including collage. She is interested in the notions of sustainability and place; making evocative art from recycled […]
Lucilla Sim
Lucilla is a painter and a maker of wooden constructions. Influenced by poetry and the patterns of weather, geology and archaeology in the Scottish landscape she often paints and draws outdoors. Her assemblages are made in the studio. She has sailed to many of the remote islands and walked several of the long distance routes […]
Nature Networks: Analogue Photography Workshop
Announcing Nature Networks
Ayo Akingbade
This new residency is offered in partnership with the Glasgow-based visual arts organisation The Common Guild and is made possible with support from Mārama Consulting. Ayo Akingbade is an artist, writer and director. She works predominantly with film and installation to address themes of power, urbanism and stance. Much of Akingbade’s work has documented experiences […]