Launched in 2024, this group residency is for unpaid adult carers with creative practices based in Scotland. The residencies are fully funded and provide supported time for unpaid carers to reconnect with their creative work and focus on new projects.
In 2024, this programme was supported by Shared Care Scotland’s Short Breaks Fund. The 2026 edition is supported by The Binks Trust.
Bobbi Cameron is an interdisciplinary artist based on the Isle of Seil, Scotland. Cameron works with devotional spiritual practice as a creative methodology through moving image, sound and performance. Her debut 16mm film ‘for the first words of a dreamworld’ was commissioned for Glasgow International Festival 2024 as part of a duo presentation with Owain […]
Claire Prentice is an award-winning journalist and writer. She is the bestselling author of four narrative non-fiction books, most recently Curse of Riches, and has made audio documentaries for the BBC. Claire edited The List, Scotland’s leading arts and culture magazine, and was a commissioning editor with the Sunday Times. She has contributed to media […]
Jo Mango is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Her work spans genres and forms including folk, pop, art- and alternative, via theatre, film, multimedia installation and live performance. Her third solo album ‘The Lightswitch’ was released in June. It follows up her acclaimed 2012 LP ‘Murmuration’, continuing a career that has spanned more than two […]
Alexandra Compton is a Scottish writer, artist, and PhD Researcher at the University of Glasgow, whose work explores working-class life, place, and community. Her debut poetry pamphlet, A Thousand Binding Moments, was published in 2022, and her writing has also appeared in BWQ, From Glasgow to Saturn, The Poetry Experiment Anthology and is forthcoming in […]
Cecilia Stamp is a Glasgow-based designer and maker creating contemporary jewellery inspired by abstract forms found in Modernist architecture, packaging and the built environment. Her work is characterised by graphic shapes, clean lines and a restrained use of colour. Working across traditional jewellery processes including vitreous enamelling, wax carving and silversmithing, Cecilia translates influences from […]
Heather Marshall (she/her) is a queer, disabled artist, writer and facilitator. She often works under the company name Creative Electric where she creates theatre, live art and tape art with and for people that may not traditionally engage in the arts due to social, physical and/or financial barriers. She is the only professionally practising Tape […]
Fiona Soe Paing is a music producer, singer and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire, and of Scottish/Burmese heritage. She has been creating music since 2007, with a continuing underlying theme of language, place, belonging and identity. Her first solo track, sung in Burmese, was included on an international “World Music” compilation album for Warner music. […]
Ann Greer is a Glasgow born Writer, based in Argyll. Ann’s Poetry has been published in Poetry Scotland; Spare Rib; Harpies and Quines plus Anthologies and other publications. This residency will offer Ann the opportunity to develop her own creative work as she has supported others, on a paid and unpaid basis, for decades.
Lucy Beth is an emerging performer and theatre-maker, hailing from Inverurie Aberdeenshire. In December 2023, Lucy graduated with distinction from the University of Glasgow’s MLitt Theatre and Performance Practices Course. She was awarded a PGT Excellence Scholarship by the University. Prior to postgraduate study, Lucy served as a visiting drama lecturer at the North East […]
Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor is a printed textile artist and designer based in Glasgow. She specialises in one-off works on linen, for exhibition, interiors and site-specific commissions for public and private spaces. She is the author of ‘Dyeing and Screen-Printing on Textiles’ (Bloomsbury), which is being expanded for a third edition, and does occasional lecturing as well […]
Fiona Percy is a visual, mixed media textile storyteller from Forres, Moray. She identifies as a queer, menopausal, disabled, neurodivergent, care giver, her work reflecting the intersectional nature of self. Her methodology cycles through continual creative loops; gather, create, destroy, repeat. She graduated from UHI with a BA(Hons) Fine Art Textiles in 2018 and PG […]
