Sulaïman Majali (b. 1492) is an artist-poet who brings into play rupturing, grieving and dreaming as methodologies of collapse. Considering art as an already thinking and speaking thing, the artists agitate/incite/perform towards poetic and conceptual strategies for evading empire. At issue in the play is the liberatory or otherwise. Exhibitions and events include: false dawn, Studio Pavillion, House for an […]
Aideen Doran (b. 1984 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland) is an artist living in Glasgow. Doran’s practice traverses moving image, sound, installation and writing and often focuses on moments of transformation or trauma. Through a process of intuitive and considered collaging, she combines material and thematic sources to create new narrative constructions that revisit historical moments, […]
Stephanie Mann’s practice manifests in sculpture, text, print and video. She is fascinated by the exploration of objects – their inherent properties and latent possibilities. Her work conflates the act of thinking, working and play in questioning the ontological nature of ‘things’ and our relationships to them. Stephanie lives and works in Edinburgh. She is currently […]
Cal Mac graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Working between sculpture and video, he develops an emotional inquiry into how systemic addiction profits from dependency, shame and love. After graduating, he received a short film commission from Film and Video Umbrella, where he used a combination of archival footage, poetry and interviews to […]
Tako Taal is an artist-filmmaker and programmer living in Glasgow. She graduated in 2015 from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. She was a 2019 RAW Academy fellow at RAW Material Company, Dakar and Artist in Residence at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2018-20. Taal’s work often considers the paradoxes of black subjectivities, and her artistic practice […]
Rosie O’Grady’s practice manifests in video, performance, text, print, installation and temporary intervention. Acts of collapsing and flattening can be traced throughout – in its methods, material, and subject matter. Using these processes, the work often attempts to activate moments of disorientation, which unsettle our relationship to histories, bodies, information and objects. Rosie lives and […]
Bobbi Cameron is an artist based in Glasgow. She works predominantly across sound, text, performance and moving image. Cameron graduated from the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art in 2019. Her work uses acts of queering, contemporary witchcraft and autobiography to dismantle and disrupt normative confinements of space, place and (both constructed and bodily) […]
Louise Mclachlan is an artist based in Edinburgh working predominantly with photography. Mclachlan advocates for disability rights and representation particularly within the arts and education. In 2019 she launched Scope Photography – a workshop and community aimed at teaching individuals facing health related barriers the power in their perspective. Mclachlan’s own work explores the reclamation of self, sight […]
Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist working predominantly in the public realm to explore the complex relationship between people and place. She is interested in the role and potential of the artist within urban regeneration, working with moving image, text, object and installation to explore possible taxonomies of everyday life. She has a long-term relationship with Barking and Dagenham, making […]
Feelings are the inspiration for Julie Barnes’ narrative paintings. She explores the power of wonderment and hope, and offers the viewer an opportunity for stillness and an awareness of the threads that connect us. Sometimes, though not often, the shape for a painting comes to her before she starts work, but mostly the colours and […]
Ariane Jackson is a Glasgow based visual artist working primarily in painting. Her work processes sensory experience and memory in a haptic and material way, often including mixed media supports that allow a playful exploration of mark and gesture. Jackson is a graduate of the Glasgow Shcool of Art and has exhibited throughout Scotland and […]
Justine Hounam (b. 1967, London, UK) is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. Her series of bodily wall hangings capture the physical, psychological, and metaphorical skin. Justine is interested in our relationship with possessions and how they become an extension of the self. Furniture, although functional is chosen due to an aesthetic signalling to […]