Kirsty Russell is an artist living in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of maintenance. Her work expands into places of care, such as hospitals and schools, through project worker and other supporting roles.

Recent exhibitions of Kirsty’s work include Practicing Bodies, Cubitt Gallery (2024), Talbot Rice Residents Exhibition, Talbot Rice Gallery (2024), Betwixt, Mimosa house (2024), Platform: 2021, Edinburgh Art Festival (2021), A Spoon is the Safest Vessel, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019) and Common Positions curated by Sean Elder, for the Jerwood Staging Series (2019). In 2018 she was selected to undertake Syllabus IV, a collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme, jointly delivered by Wysing Arts Centre, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, S1 Artspace, Eastside Projects and Iniva. In 2019 she was a Jerwood Bursary recipient. From 2022–24 Kirsty was a resident at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. For 3 months at the end of 2024, she was in residence at Fonderie Darling, Montreal and Gare de Matapedia, Matapedia.

Kirsty is one fifth of Tactics for Togetherness, an artist group exploring collaboration and resource sharing.

‘At Cove Park, I will be continuing research that will inform a project I’m developing alongside an embroidery group who have been gathering in solidarity with Palestine. People have always gathered over textile work and I’m inspired by creative, social settings, and their potential for storytelling and connection.’