Residents / Interdisciplinary Residency March 2017

Architecture, UK

Akiko Kobayashi worked in architectural practice for 15 years prior to focusing on the facilitation of community led development in the built environment. Using co-creation approaches, she designs ways for distributed clients to explore the potential of their proposals, communicate their vision and gain practical skills. She has hands-on site experience and is a certified Passivhaus designer. Current projects include a housing co-op self build refurbishment and a church fit-out for self-assembly by the congregation. Akiko Kobayashi studied at Cambridge, Edinburgh and Dundee; has worked in London, Sydney, Edinburgh and Tokyo; and is a keen cyclist, coxswain, autoharp player and parent.

Scotland, Visual Art & Performance

Conor Baird is an artist, performer and facilitator based in Glasgow. Studying Sculpture at Gray’s School of Art and AKI ArtEZ, they have exhibited in galleries and prominent performance festivals throughout the UK and further afield such as GENERATORprojects, AADK Spain, Glasgow Project Room, Tempting Failure, //BUZZCUT, RSA, The Pipe Factory, Citymoves Dance Agency and Limousine Bull. Conor has worked at various organisations including Project Slogan, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Beta-Beta and is currently a Committee Member at Market Gallery. Their practice investigates notions of the self and the body, performativity, sex and gender.

www.conorbaird.com

Visual Art, Writing, USA

Fabiola Carranza is a Costa Rican/Canadian. She makes photographs, videos, paintings, and drawings to examine visual, cultural and personal phenomena. Carranza holds a MFA from University of British Columbia and a BFA from Emily Carr University. Solo exhibitions include: Aedes Hallucinates in the Jungle (Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, 2016) and El habito de Estrofas (Despacio, San Jose, 2011). Carranza has participated in group exhibitions at The National Gallery of Costa Rica and at Contemporary Art Gallery, Belkin Gallery, Artspeak Gallery and Access Gallery in Vancouver. Her first public art commission, Seven Signs, is on view at Waterfront Park in Seattle.

www.fabiolacarranza.com

Visual Art Curation, Professional Development, Northern Ireland

Jane Morrow is an independent visual art curator with a specific interest in artist development. She has worked for galleries, initiatives and individuals around the UK (in regions including the West Midlands, East of England and South London), as well as in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Jane is interested in working across gallery, studio and network contexts around formal and informal learning environments for artists. She has originated, fundraised for and delivered numerous exhibitions, commissions, learning projects, symposia, publications, opportunities, residencies, workshops and bespoke professional development programmes for individuals and groups

www.janemorrow.com

Sculpture, Installation, UK

Kate V Robertson received a MFA with distinction from Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Since then she has exhibited widely in Scotland and Europe. Group exhibitions include Paper at MAMAC, Nice; Running Time in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Industrial Aesthetics at Hunter College, New York. She delivered a public art commission for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. For Glasgow International 2014, she designed and co-curated an ambitious exhibition at The Briggait, Reclaimed the Second Life of Sculpture. Kate V Robertson is a studio holder/board member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios and is represented by Patricia Fleming Projects.

www.katevrobertson.com

Moving Image, UK

Ralph Pritchard is an artist making work about anxiety, desire and emotional labour, often through the lens of instant messaging. With a background in independent online media (Novara Media, 2013-16) and feature film direction (Following Forests, 2015), Pritchard is fluent in the craft of the moving image. They are also conceptualising a fictional app called Shouldr which combines the infrastructure of Uber with the politics of emotional labour.

http://ralphpritchard.co.uk

Drawing, UK – Solo Printmaking Place in Kinpurnie Print Studio

Rebecca Brown graduated with an MA in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art and completed an artist in residence scheme there the following year. Prior to that she had studied at Gray’s School of Art, Fachhochschule Hannover and Cyprus College of Art. Although drawing forms the starting point for the majority of her projects, she tends to apply illustration to another artistic process; printmaking, bookbinding, ceramics or animation, paying close attention to the tactile nature of the finished piece. Her work is largely themed around storytelling, particularly the mysterious narrative within old wives tales and superstitions.

http://www.rebeccabrownillustration.co.uk

Dance, Writing, Australia

Sonia York-Price’s life has been consumed with all forms of dance. She trained extensively in classical ballet and contemporary dance in the UK. Since migrating to Australia she has merged this lived knowledge into her arts practice of film making and photography. Fascinated by the genre of time exposure photography she is not interested in the pure accuracy of the movement but the actual moment of motion. Sonia York-Price has gained experience through artist residencies photographing dancers in Beijing, London, Birmingham, Stockholm and Sydney. She is currently researching for the PhD Ageism and the mature dancer at the QCA Griffith University, Australia.

http://www.soniayork-pryce.com

Music (Composition), France – Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities Researcher in Residence 2017

Dance, Choreography, Israel

Tomo Sone was born in Kyoto. She worked with several ballet companies in Japan. In 2008, moved to Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2010, she established Japan-Israel International Dance Project with Israeli choreographers and dancers which have held several performances and workshops. Nowadays she is working as an independent choreographer and dancer. Collaborated in her pieces with artists such as animators, paper artists, film directors and musicians. Her solo works Las Meninas, Folded, Cut and Crumpled, Mobius were premiered in Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was awarded A New Artist for Art and Culture by Kyoto Municipality in 2010.

http://tomoguest.wixsite.com/dance