Rebecca Buckley
Rebecca Buckley is an artist, community art facilitator and writer who was born in London. Rebecca graduated with a BA in Writing and Publishing with Drama and spent time working in the film industry as a technician but found her creative vocation as an artist whilst studying Landscape Design. Rebecca is largely self-taught but has […]
Rhona Warwick Paterson
RSA Residencies for Scotland is s an artist-led scheme which provides valuable research and residency opportunities for artists. It forges important networks with centres of artistic excellence across Scotland, ranging from traditional residency venues to specialised production facilities. In our second year of partnering with RSA Residencies for Scotland, we are delighted to welcome the […]
Ras Akyem
Ras is a Barbadian painter. A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Art in Jamaica, his work is heavily influenced by the Rastafari movement. The World Reimagined is a ground-breaking, UK art education project to transform how we understand the Transatlantic trade of Enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us so that […]
Daniel Smyth
Daniel is a multi-disciplinary artist and potter from Bolton, based in Manchester. Primarily working with clay, he has exhibited works across the UK and Ireland, as well as teaching regular workshops from his own studio, and others ceramic studios around Manchester. “Clay continually fascinates me, and my practice is rooted in this admiration for the […]
Kirsty Stansfield & Jeni Pearson
Visual artists Kirsty Stansfield and Jeni Pearson met while working together in a hospice, creatively supporting patients and families living with a life-limiting illness. We found a shared interest in critically engaging with ideas of participation and creativity. Funded by Creative Scotland, Autonomy of Practice provides a period of artistic research and development. This focuses […]
Julian Stanford
Julian Stanford is an emerging painter in oils. A few years ago, against much good advice, he gave up his career in the film & cinema industries to pursue his passion for creating images of his own. He lives and has his studio in the English countryside by the Thames, but also draws on his […]
Amy Albright
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration for her paintings from her travels, recently Iceland and the dynamic changing weather, and the tides and coastline of Cornwall where she lives. The boundaries of where land and water merge is an ongoing and perhaps […]
Laura Hynd
Laura Hynd’s practice centres around transformation through the experience of photographing. She works with photography and is currently researching settling, purification and women’s bond with intuition, through practical and theoretical enquiry. She explores these themes through the lens of motherhood, single parenthood and selfhood. Laura’s work has been exhibited at Noorderlicht Photo Festival, MoMA Tbilisi, […]
Leah Storrs-Fisher
Leah Storrs-Fisher is a full time artist from Columbus, OH, USA. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree focusing in printmaking and art history. She is predominantly a screen printer and watercolorist but occasionally dabbles in embroidery, linocuts and any mix of these […]
Rodell Warner
Rodell Warner (b. 1986) is a Trinidadian artist working primarily in new media and photography. His works have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the 2016 Dreamlands exhibition as part of the collective video project Ways of Something, and at The National Gallery of Jamaica in the 2016 exhibition Digital, and at the 10th Berlin […]
Tamika Galanis
Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Tamika’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Tamika documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene […]
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was born in the parish of St Andrew in Jamaica in 1961. Her formative years were spent in an environment that nurtured her relationship with the nature. The tree filled ‘wonderland’ hidden behind the walls of her parent’s Molynes Road home, belied its urban location and helped to further fuel the fascination with […]