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Maria Falconer

Maria Falconer

Maria Falconer is a photographic practitioner, teacher and writer. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Maria lectures and runs photography workshops across the UK and in Europe. Maria’s commercial specialty is Dance Photo/videography. She has worked at the Edinburgh Festival every year since 2006, and her work has frequently been published in The Guardian, […]

Magnetic North Space/Time

Ufuoma Essi

Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from Lewisham, south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as an essential medium, her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories, with the aim of interrogating and disrupting the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. She […]

Awarded Residency
Nilam Sari

Nilam Sari

Nilam Sari is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their research and art practice focus on grief and technology–specifically the way we grieve through technology, as well as the way we grieve the technology itself. By using woodworking and electronic arts as their primary mediums, they explore these topics by creating work ranging from […]

Awarded Residency
Bellamy & Fateaux

Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux

Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) are partners and artistic collaborators who extend the stories of wild plants through site-specific research and experimentation. By listening to plants and responding through interdisciplinary projects, they queer the constructs that separate human beings from non-human beings and make space for the critical revision of human histories. Since their […]

Awarded Residency
Petal

Hope Strickland

Hope Strickland is a researcher and artist filmmaker from Manchester, UK, with current interests in postcolonial ecologies, queer, diasporic assemblages and the bonds between resource extraction and racial violence.  Recent work has explored black metamorphosis alongside taxonomies of imperial control; working across 16mm, digital and archival formats to question and disrupt the distances between myth, […]

Awarded Residency
Edd Carr film still

Edd Carr

Edd Carr is an experimental artist from North Yorkshire, UK, working primarily with moving image and sustainable processes to explore our anxieties around the ecological crisis and the mass extinction of life. He manipulates his own experiences to understand wider societal trauma surrounding the climate crisis.  Edd’s moving image work has been exhibited worldwide, including Holland, Australia, […]

Awarded Residency
Sekai Machache

Sekai Machache

Sekai Machache (she/her) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Sekai works with a wide range […]

Emerging Visual Artist
Brass Art

Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz & Anneke Pettican

Brass Art is the longstanding collaborative practice of Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican. Within their practice they work between drawing, sculpture, moving image, 3D + 4D bodyscanning technologies, immersive installation, archival interventions, and augmented reality. They use analogue and digital technologies as a means to disrupt conventional narratives and to capture themselves in […]

Open Residency
Sara Sonas

Sara Sonas

I am a Glasgow-based visual artist, forming my practice through exploration and utilisation of diverse materials as reflections of my inner, and outer, environment. When forming dialogues between surfaces and textures, I let my surroundings guide me in my work. As they mold my creativity – so I mold my creations. Based on my location, […]

Open Residency
Sara Bor

Sara Bor

Sara Bor is a visual artist. The dominant theme of her practice is responding to natural environments.  Nature and landscape have been part of her being since a childhood spent in the Peak District.  The narrative investigates a correlation with the geography of these landscapes and how human interventions have shaped the terrain.  Eroded moorlands, wilderness, […]

Open Residency
Heather Mathew

Heather Mathew

In October 2021, I attended an online presentation “Glacial Narratives” hosted by the Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, North Uist, about artistic responses to climate change. This inspired me to secure two artist residencies on the Island of Lewis in March and in Iceland in May to further my work on climate change. As a papermaker, I […]

Open Residency

Titus Davies

Titus Davies’  artwork includes sculptural installation, photography and collage. They are interested in using ruptures and matter out of place to explore the interface between the built environment, the domestic, and the natural world. Davies completed a Fine Art MA at Wimbledon School of Art in 2010, basing a final show around the politics and […]

Open Residency