Kirsty Russell
Kirsty Russell is an artist living in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of […]
Ayo Akingbade
This new residency is offered in partnership with the Glasgow-based visual arts organisation The Common Guild and is made possible with support from Mārama Consulting. Ayo Akingbade is an artist, writer and director. She works predominantly with film and installation to address themes of power, urbanism and stance. Much of Akingbade’s work has documented experiences […]
Natalie Nicolaïdes
Natalie Nicolaïdes is a freelance curator with a compelling portfolio of projects that intersect art, activism, and critical discourse. Holding a BA(Hons) in History of Art, Design, and Film, and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice, Nicolaïdes brings a robust academic foundation to her curatorial endeavors. Nicolaïdes has curated notable exhibitions, including ‘Hosting Stillness’ with disabled […]
Melanie Stidolph
Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associate residency. Melanie will spend two weeks at Cove Park in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice. Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention […]
Katie Molyneaux Brooks
Katie Molyneaux Brooks is an artist and potter based in Dunbar, East Lothian. Having grown up on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland she has a strong connection to the sea. Katie employs a mixed media approach, blending paint and dynamic mark-making techniques to create layered, evocative pieces that reflect Scotland’s scenery. Her work often showcases […]
Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is an Irish born, Edinburgh-based visual artist. Her multimedia work encapsulates an intensely personal journey of self exploration. A major catalyst for her recent work has been undertaking full time study and training as an arts psychotherapist. Employing a psychodynamic approach, themes include embracing the process of transition and transformation, delving into both […]
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 […]
Jo Birch
Jo is unfolding and developing as a photographer, and videographer. As a psychotherapist, Jo has supported many people to navigate the challenges of life through the therapeutic use of visual imagery. She recently found her own delight in creating images, especially monochrome photography, and storytelling through street photography and film. This residency will strip away […]
Emilia Beatriz
Emilia Beatriz is the artist based in Scotland awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 3 programme. Emilia Beatriz (they/elle) is an artist and access worker from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, based in Glasgow. Informed by Aurora Levins Morales’ ‘historian as healer’ methodology, Emilia’s films weave historical and speculative narratives – grounded […]
Chizu Anucha
Chizu Anucha (aka chizu nnamdi) is the Scottish artist awarded a residency at Villa Arson as part of the Magnetic 2 programme. A Scotsman of Nigerian origin, Chizu Anucha graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in structural engineering and architectural design, and holds a Master of Design in sound for the moving image from Glasgow […]
Magnetic 3 Residencies Announced
Matilda Bevan
Matilda Bevan is a painter living in North East England. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (1975-1978) and completed a Turps Correspondence Course in 2019. Her new paintings open to possibilities of expression in textures of paint on the surface, and aim to reveal tonal resonance through relationships of colour. […]