Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Artist Announcement
We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2026 Ecologies in the Making Residency is Roy Boswell. Now in its 5th year, this 16-week residency if offered in partnership with Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki and Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and is supported by Saastamoinen Foundation.
Roy Boswell is a sculptor from Helsinki whose work is concerned with the durational qualities of materials. Their work combines objects with music and organised sound, performance traditions, writing, and dramaturgy. Longer lasting materials like stone are placed side by side with fast-paced materials like a song or a beam of light – and the work emerges out of the friction between the intersecting temporalities.
We look forward to welcoming Roy to Scotland in June 2026.
Created in 2021, the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme was developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
These residencies are designed to focus upon making practices at a time of climate breakdown and are aimed at MFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, particularly those with sculptural methods or material processes. The programme is divided into two parts: artists spend 8 weeks at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, followed by 8 weeks at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire.
The project is made possible by a donation to Uniarts Helsinki from the Saastamoinen Foundation.
