Cat Auburn, The Horses Stayed Behind (detail)
RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which enables visual artists a period of research, development and production at partner venues across Scotland. This year thirteen artists have been awarded a total of £55,000 for residencies at partner venues across Scotland. Residencies are generously supported by the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust and Royal Scottish Academy W. Gordon Smith & Jay Gordonsmith Trust.
Cat Auburn - Cove Park, Argyll and Bute
New Zealand born artist Cat Auburn is now based in Argyll, Scotland. Her practice spans sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing, and focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed. She plans to use her time at Cove Park to undertake new artistic research into the Living National Treasure legislative model currently implemented in South Korea.
Anne Bevan RSA (Elect) - Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Anne Bevan RSA (Elect) will spend her residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop developing a new project that involves working with marine scientists, engineers and local communities. She will experiment through conversations with sculpture, water, video, print, sound and people.
Kate Davis - Glasgow Print Studio
Kate Davis works across drawing, printmaking, moving image and photography to reconsider what certain histories could look, sound and feel like. At Glasgow Print Studio, she will explore the possibilities of printmaking in relation to her work, focusing on notions of the menopause.
Craig Easton - Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
Deeply rooted in documentary practice, Craig Easton’s looks at notions of identity and connection to place. His residency will focus on a beekeeper on the Isle of Colonsay and the resulting works, which will be printed, editioned and sequenced with Street Level Photoworks, will use the island beekeeper’s life and experience as a metaphor for wider human and ecological concerns.
Lotte Gertz - Edinburgh Printmakers
Glasgow based artist Lotte Gertz will use her time at Edinburgh Printmakers to develop a new body of work focusing on experimental relief print and monotype on Japanese papers. This work will explore the concept of the container, informed by Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ and explores various forms of the vessel.
Beverley Hood - Airlie Artist’s Residency, Angus
Beverley Hood interrogates the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience through the creation of digital media, performance and writing. She will use her residency to undertake research which will inform a short generative AI film focusing on representations of women, artists and motherhood.
Jodi Le Bigre - Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden
Jodi Le Bigre will use her residency to investigate the intersection of printmaking and sculpture. Her work grows out of an interest in how we, as individuals and as collectives, position ourselves within our changing natural environments, and she hopes to spend time researching and producing hybrid objects, fusing printmaking techniques with sculptural forms.
Ellen MacDonald - RSA Collections
Ellen MacDonald plans to use her time at RSA Collections to explore the work and biographies of previous women RSAs, paying particular attention to the relationships these artists had with the genre of still life and the importance of the interior, or ‘home’ setting. Her practice focuses on the process of mediation that occurs in painting, examining the relationship between objects and actions, and how this relationship intersects with representation.
Michele Marcoux - An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis
Originally from Ohio, Michele Marcoux now lives and works in Scotland. She plans to use her residency at An Lanntair to create new paintings in the landscape and at a croft house on Lewis. She explores nostalgic layers, personal and collective memory, as well as contemporary painting methods.
Helen McCrorie - Bothy Project, Isle of Eigg
Helen McCrorie's practice combines observational filming with experimental sound workshops. She works with communities engaged in embodied forms of learning to explore how we generate meaning and relate to the environment and each other through social activities. Helen will use her time on the Isle of Eigg to create an experimental film about island life, focusing on the women of Eigg.
Erin McQuarrie - The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Erin McQuarrie creates sculptural tapestries and textile tools that incorporate found objects, handspun dyed yarns and unconventional materials that break the traditional assumption that cloth is purely a domestic medium. She will use her residency to research Orcadian Neolithic landmarks and their connection to textile making to inspire the development of a new body of drawings and handwoven sculptural tapestries.
Meg Rodger - Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist
Meg Rodger works with natural phenomena, taking inspiration from the complexity, strength and beauty of the ocean and land. She will use her residency at Taigh Chearsabhagh to develop digital media skills with the support and mentoring of UistFilm, resulting in the production of a short artist’s film exploring natural and astronomical systems and cycles
Sarah Wishart - An Cridhe, Isle of Coll
Sarah Wishart works with textiles, film, sound and text to tell stories that are slightly out of joint, hidden or lost under the surface of things. She will use her time on the Isle of Coll to capture the ‘hypnotic’ qualities of the sea, considering its relationship to grief and healing.
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