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Explore our individual and group residencies from 2000 to the present day. The Archive is a work in progress and we welcome contributions in the form of audio and video documentation, photographs, and testimonials from our former residents. This page features a changing selection of past residencies, and visitors can search for entries via the resident’s name, practice, the type and title of the residency, and the year.

Featured Residencies from the Archive

Ufuoma Essi

Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from Lewisham, south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as an essential medium, her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories, with the aim of interrogating and disrupting the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. She […]

Awarded Residency

Dane Mitchell

Dane Mitchell’s practice — which involves installation and sculpture  — explores ephemeral phenomena on the threshold of perceptibility. In particular the work investigates a form of ‘plastic invisibility’, exploring territories of transformation between physical states, and seeks to frame, invoke or reify material and sensory qualities which are marginal, unstable, dynamic or transitional. One material […]

International Visual Arts

Malin Lewis

Malin Lewis is a musician, composer, instrument maker, educator, and musical director from the Scottish Highlands. They play a range of instruments including various bagpipes, fiddle and whistle. Malin performs regularly across the UK with their trio, Malin Makes Music. Their music draws inspiration from piping traditions across Europe and features self-penned tunes as well […]

Making Tracks
Rona MacDonald

Rona Dhòmhnallach

Raised on the family croft on the island of South Uist, Rona is part of the lost generation of Gaelic speakers, where many were discouraged from connecting with Gaelic language and culture at school, in a time before the Gaelic-Medium revival had begun. From a family of renowned Gaelic singers, storytellers and pipers she tries […]

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland Residency

Artist(s)

Title

Year

Residencies

Artforms

2026

Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy
Awarded Residency
2026
Awarded
Composition Film Music Theatre
Emily Doolittle
Associates Awarded Residency
2026
Awarded
Composition Music

2025

James Ross
Subsidised Winter Residency
2025
Open
Composition Music
Nick Powell
Fuel Residency
2025
Partnership
Composition Theatre

2024

Alex Smoke
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music
Andy McGregor
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Andy Monoghan
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2024
Open
Composition Music
Anna McLuckie
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Ayman Hlal
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Bill Coon
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
Christian Mohr Levisen
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Clara & Miranda Gillam Grant
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
Coby Sey
Awarded Residency
2024
Awarded
Composition Music
David Paul Jones
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Debbie Hannan
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Devesh Sodha
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Fiona Soe Paing
Creative Residencies for Carers
2024
Awarded
Composition Music
Genevieve Dawson
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
Harry Górski-Brown
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music
Helen Anahita Wilson
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
IFW
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition
Isaac Savage
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
James Ross
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
James Ross
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
Jessica Kerr
Argyll Rainforest Community Network
2024
Partnership
Composition Music
Jonathan O'Neill
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Kasiva Mutua
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Lili-Anne Brown
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Linda McLean
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Lydia Green & Filip Holacky
Autumn Micro Residency
2024
Open
Composition Theatre
Neel Chaudhuri
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Nikki Lynette
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Nina Harries
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
No Plexus
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music
Ossi Raippalinna
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Quincy Grant
Open Residency
2024
Open
Composition Music
Robby Khela
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
SHHE (Sue Shaw)
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music
Shohret Nur
Making Tracks
2024
Open
Composition Music
Shonagh Murray
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Music
Sonia Killman
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music
Sushma Soma
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Sâmir Bhamra
Musical Theatre Writing Residency
2024
Partnership
Composition Theatre
Zwel Mun Wint (Heft)
Cryptic
2024
Open
Composition Music

2023

Coby Sey
Awarded Residency
2023
Awarded
Composition Music
Felix Taylor
Open Residency
2023
Open
Composition Performance
James Ross
Open Residency
2023
Open
Composition Music
Kate Young
Open Residency
2023
Open
Composition Music
Laura Campbell
Open Residency
2023
Open
Composition Music

2022

Alaa Zouiten
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Alex Smoke
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition
Amble Skuse
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Composition Performance
Anna Ekborg
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Becky Šik
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition Moving Image
Cherif Soumano
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Duncan MacLeod
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Composition Music
Dylan Bonnar
Youth Arts Bursary Programme
2022
Awarded
Composition Theatre
Ferronia Wennborg
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition Performance
Iona Lane
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Lucie Hendry
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Lucy Duncombe
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition
Malin Lewis
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Martyn Riley
Open Residency
2022
Open
Composition Music
Martyn Riley
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Composition Music
Nik Rawlings
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition Music
Ranjana Ghatak
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Richard Luke
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Composition Music
Samm Anga
Cryptic
2022
Open
Composition Music
Shahab Azinmehr
Making Tracks
2022
Open
Composition Music
Siôn Parkinson
Unexpected Gardens Residency
2022
Awarded
Composition Music

2021

Ahmet Ozan Baysal
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Azin Zahedi
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Erchao Gu
Ivan Juritz Prize
2021
Partnership
Composition Music
Iona Fyfe
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Liz Hanks
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Robert Bisha
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Simon Leleux
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music
Thamires Tannous
Making Tracks
2021
Open
Composition Music

2017

Gail Priest
Cryptic Residencies
2017
Open
Composition Music
Rob Bentall
Cryptic Residencies
2017
Open
Composition
Stuart Macpherson
Cryptic Residencies
2017
Open
Composition Music

2016

Timothy Cooper
Cryptic Residencies
2016
Open
Composition Digital

2011

Shiori Usui
BBC Scottish Symphony Commission
2011
Awarded
Composition Music