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Awarded — 2025 & 2026
Annual Awarded Residencies

We are delighted to announce the 28 individual artists and collaborators who will be taking part in Annual Awarded Residencies in 2025 and 2026. These fully funded residencies were appointed following a general call for applications – which resulted in over 1,200 submissions and open to individuals based in Scotland and the UK, and in Central and South America or its diaspora in Europe and North America. The recipients of these awards are travelling to us from every corner of Scotland and the UK, and from Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, and the US.

Working across craft, dance and choreography, design, fashion, film, moving image, music and composition, literature, poetry, theatre, translation, and the visual arts, the artists will be taking part in residencies running from two to eight weeks.

Specialist Advisors to this programme include: writer and translator Polly Barton, multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher Ashanti Harris, curator and costume designer Sabrina Henry, writer and editor Heather Parry, and dramaturg, facilitator, and maker Luke Pell.

18 June 2025

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Residencies


YM Abdel-Magied

YM Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese writer currently based in London. The author of five books, their debut literary novel At Sea is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. The propulsive literary eco-thriller follows Zainab, an expert driller, as she navigates the male-dominated world of offshore drilling. Also forthcoming in 2026 is SILVERBROOK: Yumna and the Golden […]

Awarded Residency

Anne-Marie Copestake

Anne-Marie Copestake is an artist living and working in Glasgow. Attentive to daily acts, acts of refusal, tenderness, narrative, oral history, temporary and longer term communities, her work is concerned with social political conditions surrounding choices, or a lack of choices, and an exploration of histories and environments that may have contributed. Anne-Marie often works […]

Awarded Residency

Yuvel Soria

Yuvel Soria (he/him) (b. Bolivia) is a Dance Artist-Creator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. As a British-Bolivian diasporic artist, his work explores identity, belonging, and culture. Rooted in traditional Bolivian, Latin, and contemporary dance, his multidisciplinary practice emphasises collaboration, immersion, and audience interaction. He creates sensory-rich, participatory works that span performance and live art, fostering […]

Awarded Residency

Nadiyah Abdullatif

Nadiyah Abdullatif is a Mauritius-born, Scotland-based editor and translator working from Arabic, French, Mauritian Creole and Spanish into English. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, carte blanche, Wasafiri, ArabLit Quarterly and The Markaz Review. Her co-translation with Anam Zafar of Lebanese graphic novel Yoghurt and Jam (Or How My Mother Became Lebanese) (Balestier […]

Awarded Residency

Melina Berkenwald

Melina Berkenwald is an Argentine visual artist who also works in cultural production, art management, and curatorial projects. She is the founder and director of URRA, an independent non-profit organization that runs art residencies in Buenos Aires since 2010. Trained in painting, she has worked with various media depending on the nature of each project, […]

Awarded Residency

Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]

Awarded Residency

Richard McVetis

Richard McVetis is an artist whose practice is inspired by time, geology, and cosmology, explored through textile-based work—particularly hand embroidery, which he describes as ‘rendering with stitch’. His work takes the form of meticulously stitched two- and three-dimensional drawings, shifting between small-scale sculptures and large installations. These pieces visually articulate the passage of time, spatial […]

Awarded Residency

Emily Doolittle

Canadian-born, Glasgow-based composer, researcher, and occasional oboist Emily Doolittle’s music has been described as “masterful” (Musical Toronto), “eloquent and effective,” and “the piece that grabbed me by the heart” (The WholeNote). She has an ongoing interest in zoomusicology—the relationship between animal songs and music—which she explores in both her composition and through interdisciplinary collaboration with […]

Associates Awarded Residency

Jack Hunter

Jack Hunter is an award-winning disabled, writer, actor and poet. Originally from Inverness, Jack graduated from Queen Margaret University’s BA Drama & Performance course in 2017. In 2021, Jack wrote One of Two as part of his time on the Playwrights’ Studio and Birds of Paradise Theatre Disabled Playwright Award. Winner of Summerhall’s Mary Dick […]

Awarded Residency

Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. She has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. She has a MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Harry Josephine’s work generally happens in the […]

Awarded Residency

felix taylor

felix taylor is an artist and composer from South London. Primarily interested in memory, loss and hauntings. In his installation work, felix explores the different ways music and sound is recorded and reproduced, looking to graphic scores, fm radio and custom built, percussive amplifiers. These explorations often include music composed by felix, alongside speech, performance […]

Awarded Residency

Nasim Luczaj

Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish–English translator based between London, Glasgow and the Polish Carpathians. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press), and her pamphlet responding to Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters to her husband will be out in late 2025 as part of Oblique House’s Diptych series. Her poems have appeared or are […]

Awarded Residency

Aqsa Arif

Aqsa Arif is a Scottish-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Her practice explores themes of syncretic identity, displacement, and cultural dissonance, often grounded in the narrative structures of folklore, mythology, and cinematic language. Navigating these realms through the lens of her own dual identity and lived experience, she […]

Awarded Residency

Grace Ndiritu

Grace Ndiritu is an established British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, writer and filmmaker whose writing and artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Ndiritu is the winner of the Jarman Award in association with Film London (2022) and recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2024). Her films and […]

Awarded Residency

Mohamed Tonsy

Mohamed Tonsy is an Egyptian writer, ceramicist and bookseller at Lighthouse Bookshop. Formerly an architect and triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, Tonsy completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Their writing has appeared in Mizna, Epoch Press, won a Quarterly John Byrne Award and was Shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short […]

Awarded Residency

Ben Ramsay

Ben Ramsay is a writer and director of film and theatre from Kirkcaldy, Fife. He adores genre-driven storytelling, and his work often revolves around darkly comic circumstances, commentary on contemporary life in Scotland, and works that explore pockets of history that are often overlooked. Recent works include: ‘A Concrete Topiary’, produced by the Almeida Theatre’s […]

Associates Awarded Residency

Louise Bennetts

Louise Bennetts is an Edinburgh-based fashion and textiles designer, researcher and maker. She works independently across varied projects, with a particular interest in alternative textile systems, applications, and sustainable material innovation. Her work considers fabric as architectural form, creating spaces and textures with cloth that can be worn on the body, or adorn the home. […]

Awarded Residency

Debjani Banerjee

Debjani Banerjee is an Edinburgh-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance, dance, sculpture, textiles, film, and collaborative making. Drawing from her British Bengali heritage, Banerjee explores themes of cultural dissonance, identity, and belonging through a post-colonial lens. Her work reconsiders the complexities of living within and between cultures, interweaving personal narratives with broader questions of […]

Awarded Residency

Karon Sabrina Corrales

Karon Sabrina Corrales is a cultural producer and independent curator based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 2016, she co-founded LL Proyectos with artist and curator Leonardo Gonzalez, an independent contemporary art initiative dedicated to fostering critical dialogue and artistic experimentation in Tegucigalpa. She is currently a fellow of the Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental […]

Awarded Residency

Sarah Chew & Colum Findlay

Sarah Chew and Colum Findlay are music theatre collaborators, interrogating cultural fault lines in gender, disability, class and intergenerationality through performance. The issues they address are serious, and based in lived experience, but humour, whimsy and joy are integral to the making practice of their calls for social justice. Sarah is a theatre director, writer […]

Awarded Residency

Omid Asadi

Omid Asadi, born in Iran, navigates a diverse journey that intertwines past experiences with creative expression. After growing up in Iran, he ventured into engineering and boxing before embracing art’s calling. In 2007, Omid’s life took an international turn as he immigrated to the United Kingdom. The transition ignited a transformation within him, eventually steering […]

Awarded Residency

Anne Hardy

Anne Hardy’s practice in sculpture and immersive installation re-imagines overlooked terrains, objects, histories and materials as holders of transformative potential. Considering how our bodies encounter spaces, hierarchies, freedoms, and uncertainty in relation to emotions, fragility and resilience, her work is informed by ideas of energetic presence, deep time, future archaeology, climate, and our status as […]

Awarded Residency

Sin Park

Sin Park is a painter, researcher, and academic based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the shifting space between abstraction and representation, where memory, gesture, and landscape intertwine. Through intuitive mark-making, erasure, and repetition, she builds layered visual languages that reflect on identity, cultural context, fragmentation, transformation, and the fluid nature of belonging. Her work often […]

The Bowmaker Awarded Residency

Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. This gathering is facilitated through a project they established in 2019 called ‘Other Cinemas’ which regularly hosts community screening and discussions in Brent, which centre Black and […]

Awarded Residency

Carol Rodrigues

Carol Rodrigues is a Brazilian writer based in São Paulo. Her short-story collection Sem Vista Para o Mar (Edith, 2014) won both main prizes for the category in Brazil: Jabuti and Biblioteca Nacional. She has also published two novels: A Mulher do Padre (Todavia, 2023) and O Melindre dos Dentes da Besta (7Letras, 2019). She […]

Awarded Residency

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Awarded Residencies 2025 & 2026

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