Sayan Chanda
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]
Aprille McShane
Aprille McShane is a Sheffield based visual artist whose work responds to the natural world around her, with a particular interest in changing seasons, growth and renewal. Through regular drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting, Aprille has developed a practice rooted in observing and reflecting.
Ruth Francesca Mogan
Ruth Francesca Mogan is a visual arts teacher based in Singapore, specialising in guiding students aged 4 to 17 through a wide range of fine art mediums. With a diverse foundation in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more, she draws on both her formal training in Art Teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine […]
Dierdre Pearce
Dierdre Pearce is an artist currently living in Canberra, Australia. Originally from far northern Australia, she explores materiality, material cultures, landscapes and rituals of place making, with a focus on rootlessness, fragmentation and alienation. Her approach is based in sculpture and spatial practices including MPhil research (2021) and is informed by past experience in science […]
Demelza Kingston
Demelza Kingston is a Glasgow-based artist working in photography and moving image with processes that span the analogue, digital and cameraless. Her work considers how humans of the ancient past, the present and the future are dis/connected with the more-than-human. Informed by research, from archive to fieldwork, her work can be seen as a kind […]
Magnetic 4 Residencies
Jackie Bell
After a career in health and a personal health related stocktaking of life goals, Jackie Bell returned to education as a mature student, completing a HND in Contemporary Art at Edinburgh College and then a BA Hons in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2023. She was awarded one of the John Kinross […]
Jo Arksey
Jo Arksey is an artist and creative facilitator who relishes working across various media. Although essentially abstract, her individual pieces evoke something recognisable. Reclaiming discarded materials through papermaking has for Jo, been a process of discovery and evolution, combining pulp with text, hair, metal and print in sculptural works and installations. Threads running through Jo’s […]
Priya
Olivia Priya Foster (she/they, b/.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Foster’s work focuses on rurality, specifically in Argyll, where she grew up on a farm. Foster explores her dual cultural identity and the intersections of South Asian and Scottish heritage. Often working with sculpture, performance, moving image and sound. Foster’s practice deals […]
Antonia Ablass
Antonia is a textile designer and artist from Berlin and Brandenburg. Growing up between the city and the countryside, her textile work is influenced by this duality and aims at bringing together plants, humans and other living things. Early in her textile-design studies, she began exploring the potential of textiles to reweave nature into the […]
Charlotte Bracho
Charlotte Bracho (born 1990, Venezuela) is an artist and designer currently living and working in France (Creuse). Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in textile thinking, exploring repetitive processes involving lines, light, folds, and patterns. Through video art, sculptures, and installations, she seeks to transform tangible materials into creations that evoke illusion and the imperceptible, driven […]
Ondine Gil
Ondine Gilson is a French painter based in Paris and the Dordogne. She explores the theme of immersion, focusing on how external and internal worlds reflect each other. Currently, she is interested in the energy, materials, and atmosphere of nature. Ondine’s instinctive and raw work layers acrylics, oils, and oil pastels, in search of matter […]