Rae-Yen Song
Rae-Yen Song (b. 1993, Edinburgh, Scotland) is an artist based in Glasgow. Working expansively through drawing, sculpture, installation, costume, video, sound, performance, family collaboration and any other medium that becomes appropriate, Song’s practice is a long-term exercise in self-mythology as survival tactic. It explores the position of Other within our tangled reality, speaking broadly about […]
Lauren Bremner with Robyn Woolston, Annette Laing
Lauren Bremner is an up and coming young Scottish artist. Lauren’s artworks are mostly inspired by two of her great loves; nature and cats. Inspired by her love of nature, Lauren loves to develop ideas with her studio support artists, taking inspiration from her local surroundings and landmarks, as well as landscapes further afield. Lauren […]
Sarah Calmus
Sarah Calmus is an interdisciplinary artist, programmer, creative director, arts advocate and creator of large-scale immersive installations and provocations, working across a multitude of mediums from glass and light, social intervention, moving image and sound. Interested in building spaces to connect and reflect, her practice is intentionally interdisciplinary and participatory, viewed as a series of […]
Dean Knight
Combining sculpture, painting and drawing, Dean Knight constructs open-ended narratives that intersperse the primitive, the comedic, the seductive and the grotesque. A self-conscious and tongue-in-cheek take on an obsessive and objectifying male artist is explored, along with the role of the gay man as clown or peripheral deviant. Previous solo exhibitions include Modern Sculpture, Project Space […]
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, […]