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Partnership — Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
Programme Profile

Created in 2021, the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme was developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop.

These residencies are designed to focus upon making practices at a time of climate breakdown and are aimed at MFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, particularly those with sculptural methods or material processes. The programme is divided into two parts: artists spend 8 weeks at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, followed by 8 weeks at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire.

The project is made possible by a donation to Uniarts Helsinki from the Saastamoinen Foundation.

Iisa Lepistö, Ecologies in the Making Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, 2021 (photography, Felicity Crawshaw)

Residencies


Harriina Räinä

Harriina Räinä is a research-oriented visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores themes such as corporeality, observation dynamics, and human-animal relationships. She is interested in the connections between artists, locations, materials, and tools. Harriina holds a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2019). Her recent projects include […]

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures
A portrait image of a Finnish man looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a brown collared shirt.

Jere Vainio

Finnish artist Jere Vainio is the recipient of the 2024 Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Vainio works with familiar materials and seeks to understand them from the perspective of making and unmaking. This approach stems from his experience as a skilled pattern cutter and maker of clothing. He utilises a technical approach to […]

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

Santtu Laine

Santtu Laine is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. He works with installation, sculpture, images, and sound, often exploring themes of memory and its inherent ambiguity. His art practice focuses on alternative and sustainable methods of creation, combining various techniques and materials to continually seek new forms of expression. Santtu holds a Master of […]

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

Iisa Lepistö

The Helsinki-based artist Iisa Lepistö takes part in our first Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures Residency. Iisa works with writing and sculptural objects. Her interests include the origins of sculptural materials and their possible futures, feminist theory and the combination of linguistic and sculptural expression. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts […]

Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures

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