Fran Quinlan has an intensely embodied process driven drawing practice, with a quiet ritualised character, exploring materiality and the transformative quality of paper; its visual and actual weight. Practical research drives reflective curiosity around the reality of impermanence, fragility and shifting land and seascape, delving into historical and contemporary issues of human migration and displacement. […]
I am a South African artist and Fine Art student and having been living in Scotland for about 10 years. My practise centres around extracting imagery from the constant, ceaseless flow of the Internet and other dominant sources of visual culture and re- contextualising them through drawing. I am interested in enticing the viewer to […]
Manuela Gernedel works in painting, drawing and sculpture. Her art is inspired by the psychedelic appearance of everyday life, confessional writing and her experience of motherhood and care. She is also a songwriter and has released an album with the Scottish label Lost Map records. She studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and at […]
Janet Bezzant is a visual artist. She has a varied career as an academic and exhibiting artist both in the US and UK and is currently based in Manchester with a studio at rogue. Her work at present uses repetitive mark making / process led drawing and material manipulation towards large scale installation work. The […]
Laura Spark is a visual artist applying animation across theatre, installation, live performance and film. Originally from Ayrshire Laura is now based in Liverpool where she works collaboratively with a diverse range of community and theatre companies, as well as across the Uk from Dundee to London. Laura is committed to accessibility and equality in her […]
Born in 1976 in Saint Louis, Senegal, Ibrahima Thiam studied economics in Dakar. Following a workshop organized by Goethe-Institute during the Month of Photography at Dakar in 2009, he found his passion for photography. Self-taught, he is interested in memory, archives, African orality as well as myths and legends. Ibrahima collects pictures, including some from […]
Ariane Jackson is a Glasgow based visual artist. Working predominantly in painting, her work looks at the translation of sensory experience, using painting in a haptic and material way, and including various mixed media supports that allow a playful exploration of mark and gesture. Image: Ariane Jackson, ‘Windows, too, sickly – KP,’ 2021
Jane Hunter is a visual artist based in Paisley. She makes work which speaks intimately of our relationship with and experience in the natural world. Considering how humankind seeks control or stability, alongside connection, in the face of the landscape’s ostensibly wild and unpredictable nature. Jane’s work has been shown in galleries across Scotland and […]
Jana Kühne is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London where she is studying a BA in Fine Art at the Art Academy London. Jana uses art as a catalyst, substitute, and extension of wilderness experiences, seeking connections to nature and herself. In the light of the climate emergency, she is reviewing her ideas of […]
Yolanda McKean has been based in Edinburgh since 2011, graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2015. Her work incorporates various drawing, printing and painting techniques and materials. The images are mostly of familiar spaces or objects, reflecting her interest in ecology; working from life, often outside, reacting to the place directly. The work over […]
Iona Roberts is an artist from Glasgow, where she still lives and has her studio. Location is used as a starting point for all Iona’s work. Through walking, she absorbs and documents places from busy cities to remote landscapes, exploring concepts of identity, time and space. Back in the studio, Iona uses surfaces and memories […]
Vanessa Holyoak (US, Canada) and Antoine Chesnais (France) are a Los Angeles-based artist duo working across installation, sculpture, photography and language. They construct uncanny, minimalist environments that allude to notions of memory, intimate and ecological loss, and the cognitive overload of the present. While in residency at Cove Park they will be working on gathering […]