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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

Richard McVetis
Awarded Residency
2026
Awarded
Craft Visual Arts

2025

Janice Affleck
Summer Micro Residency
2025
Open
Architecture Craft
Katie Schwab
Associates Micro Residency
2025
Open
Craft Participatory Practice
Katie Schwab
Associates Artist in Schools Residency
2025
Awarded
Craft Participatory Practice
Mohamed Tonsy
Awarded Residency
2025
Awarded
Craft Literature
Sayan Chanda
Awarded Residency
2025
Awarded
Craft Visual Arts
Soizig Carey
Associates Micro Residency
2025
Open
Craft Design
Toben Lewis
The Argyll Heritage Craft Residency
2025
Awarded
Craft

2024

Jane Keith
Maker/Designer Residency
2024
Awarded
Craft Design
Katie Schwab
Associates Artists in Schools Residency
2024
Awarded
Craft Participatory Practice
Kerry McGhee Laura Lightbody
Open Residency
2024
Open
Craft
Laura Lightbody & Kerry McGhee
Autumn Micro Residency
2024
Open
Craft
Nikhil Vettukattil
NAARCA Residency at Cove Park
2024
Partnership
Craft Food Visual Arts
Nikhil Vettukattil
NAARCA Residency at Narsaq International Research Station
2024
Partnership
Craft Food Visual Arts
Paula Currie
Open Residency
2024
Open
Craft
Sam Kilday
The Argyll Heritage Craft Residency
2024
Awarded
Craft
Tuija Hansen
Spring Micro Residency
2024
Open
Craft

2023

Anna Olson
Associates Maker/Designer Residency
2023
Open
Craft
Erin McQuarrie
Awarded Residency
2023
Awarded
Craft
Mhari McMullan
Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
2023
Partnership
Craft
Nic Green
Awarded Residency
2023
Awarded
Craft Performance
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen
The Bridge Awards Residency
2023
Awarded
Craft
Tajender Sagoo
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2023
Open
Craft

2022

Charlotte Smithson
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Craft Design
Daniel Smyth
Open Residency
2022
Open
Craft Visual Arts
Deirdre Nelson
Research Residency
2022
Awarded
Craft Design
Helen Whittaker & Juliette MacDonald
Open Residency
2022
Open
Craft Design
Justine Ashbee
Open Residency
2022
Open
Craft
Mariam Syed
Awarded Residency
2022
Awarded
Craft
Martin Harman
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Craft
Wen-Hsi 文曦 Harman
Winter Subsidised Residencies
2022
Open
Craft

2021

Janice Affleck
Independent Residency
2021
Open
Craft Design

2020

Harriet Jenkins
Fife Contemporary – New Maker
2020
Partnership
Craft

2011

Frances Priest
Jerwood Creative Catalysts
2011
Awarded
Craft
Jessica Hemmings
Jerwood Creative Catalysts
2011
Awarded
Craft
Priya Ravish Mehra
International Crafts Residency
2011
Awarded
Craft
Tilleke Schwarz
International Crafts Residency
2011
Awarded
Craft

2010

Alison Watt
UK Crafts
2010
Awarded
Craft
Daniel Kavanagh
Hi-Arts
2010
Partnership
Craft
Michael Carberry
UK Craft
2010
Awarded
Craft

2009

Dawn Youll
Scottish Craft
2009
Awarded
Craft Design
Johannes Nagel
International Craft
2009
Awarded
Craft

2008

Chien-Wei Chang
Silversmithing & Jewellery
2008
Awarded
Craft
Frances Priest
Scottish Craft
2008
Awarded
Craft
Wayne Pottinger
UK Craft
2008
Awarded
Craft

2007

Andrea Walsh
SAC Scottish Craft
2007
Awarded
Craft
Grant McCaig
Silversmithing & Jewellery
2007
Awarded
Craft
Katy West
Artists in Schools
2007
Awarded
Craft
Steff Norwood
SAC Craft
2007
Awarded
Craft
Valerie Olleon
Artists in Schools
2007
Awarded
Craft

2006

Alex Ramsay
Silversmithing & Jewellery
2006
Awarded
Craft
Joe Pipal
SAC Craft
2006
Awarded
Craft
Mhairi Killin
Argyll & Bute
2006
Awarded
Craft
Sarah Keay
Sarah Keay
2006
Awarded
Craft
Valerie Olleon
SAC Craft
2006
Awarded
Craft

2005

Lucian Taykor
SAC Craft
2005
Awarded
Craft
Sarah Keay
SAC Craft
2005
Awarded
Craft

2004

Lizzie Farey
SAC Craft
2004
Awarded
Craft
Loretta Braganza
Loretta Braganza
2004
Awarded
Craft
Pip Weaser
Argylll & Bute
2004
Awarded
Craft
Sarah Keay
SAC Craft
2004
Awarded
Craft
Sophie Horton
SAC Craft
2004
Awarded
Craft

2003

Loretta Braganza
Scottish Arts Council Craft
2003
Awarded
Craft
Nick Rayburn
Scottish Arts Council Craft
2003
Awarded
Craft

2002

Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart
2002
Awarded
Craft

2001

Richard La Trobe Bateman
Richard La Trobe Bateman
2001
Awarded
Craft