Rachel McBrinn’s practice encompasses film, sculpture and writing. Her work is concerned with how spaces are designed, experienced, and how we think about them. Her filmmaking practice is rooted in conversation and relationship building, and in much of her work she looks to make visible the mechanisms of filmmaking, making her own presence felt in the recording.

Alison Scott is an artist, writer and art-worker. Her work is led by research methodologies with performative, written and collaborative practices as an important aspect of the process of production.

Both Rachel and Alison are former residents of Cove Park and were awarded the Argyll Beacon Film Commission in November 2021

At Cove Park we will be developing work for our forthcoming exhibition with the Travelling Gallery, which follows a period of research and development in partnership with St Andrews Botanic Garden for our project After Glass. A key focus of this research has been the recent decommissioning of SABG’s glasshouses, and a move away from the ideologies and histories these structures represent. In the work, the figure of ‘the glasshouse’ becomes a prism that brings intersecting legacies of patriarchy and imperialism into focus. Our exhibition will open in March 2025.