Annabel Wright is an emerging visual artist with background as a renowned illustrator and musician. She is continuing to expand her illustration practice into visual art projects and collaborations and has experimented with large scale wall-works and installations during a residency with Villa Stuck Museum in Munich. Community is a common focus throughout her practice – from the band The Pastels, to illustration and visual art and in activism.

Helen McCrorie’s visual art practice visual art practice is inspired by, and sometimes entangled with, community organising, activism and community arts. She founded an outdoor playgroup and a community choir and has collaborated with both in films and events. Her films and installations celebrate marginalised stories of care, creativity and community, in the face of institutions and narratives of power and control. The films combine observational filming with outcomes from experimental workshops, such as in sound-play, or animation.

Recent exhibitions and screenings include, Where we meet land, Fruitmarket (2026), Waters Rising -Perth Museum (2025), Repair Cafe -solo show, The Travelling Gallery (2024) Take One Action, Radiophrenia, CineAstra(2023); Alchemy, London and Glasgow Short Film Festivals, Encounters, Experiments in Cinema, and Braziers Film Festival-joint winner of the Glaister Award (2022)

Annabel Wright and Helen McCrorie share a passion for documenting community groups and social activities, and celebrating grass-roots activism. For GI 2026 they are working with Maryhill Integration Network, developing artistic responses to the experience of community-building in Glasgow. They will use their time at Cove Park to review work in progress, across drawing, 16mm film and sound, and to make collaborative work to complete the installation.

This residency is supported by an award from Creative Scotland.