Residents / 2022

Catrin Jeans is an artist, researcher and educator. She advocates for children’s human rights, play and risk-taking. Her practice is about creating environments where knowledge-making is non-hierarchal and different ways of being and doing are valued. At the core of this mutual exchange are relationships, rights and belonging. Catrin is a co-founder and producer of child/ young person-led artist collective Rumpus Room.

While at Hospitalfied, Catrin will reflect on her practice and the power dynamics between herself and the children/ young people she works with; exploring how a pedagogy of listening can enable mutual exchange and remove barriers to participation.

Deniz Uster (b. Istanbul) is a Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist/researcher, who has previously presented her work at ICA (London), !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, and Sabanci Museum (Istanbul), amongst others.

Uster’s collaborative practice is rooted in anthropological, ethnographic and scientific research, interwoven with speculative fiction. An imaginary shift in nature within her narratives forms the foundation for alternative social structures, cultures, economic systems, futures and histories.

Since Uster became an unpaid-carer, her sculptures have considerably reduced in scale and manifested in the form of wearable artworks, under the title ‘O T H E R S C A P E S’, as an alternative, mobile mode of presentation.

Judith Davies is a ceramicist and drawer, often working in response to place.  The sense of touch is primary to her practice, both in making and in how her work is experienced; methods of working  necessitate hours of repetitive touch, both in the forming of the clay and in the working of the surface.  She is interested in how an object acquires history, its ‘story’; her processes have become a way to imbue a piece with layered marks and veils of colour; worn back, washed away, repeated until the work seems to embody its own history.

Parallel activity in drawing finds ways to stop and walk away and let the materials react to each other and to the surface. This way the marks emerge as the materials dry, creating edges, boundaries, pools , water courses. She adds found material into the ink-ancient peat, red clay, ground stones, so they leave deposits and wash lines leaving behind indexical trace of place.

Elias Nafaa is an artist living and working in Lebanon. His artistic practice is informed by his background in architecture, it looks into space as a place of storytelling. His process-driven approach explores language and issues of identity. Through artworks and projects he developed, his work sheds light on the political through the personal; it is highly subjective, often non-linear, and spatially nuanced. His work has been featured at MACAM, and Galerie Tanit (Lebanon). In 2021, he was the youngest artist selected to exhibit at Lights of Lebanon: modern and contemporary art from 1950 to today at the Arab World Institute IMA in Paris (France). In 2022, he presented his first solo exhibition Impulsions at ArtLab (Lebanon) with the support of the British Council. His work is part of the permanent collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the IMA.

Elias’ residency includes 2 weeks at Hospitalfield joining the Interdisciplinary Residency Programme and 2 weeks at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. The residency was devised as a partnership with British Council Lebanon through their Catapult Visual Arts Programme with Art Lab.

Laetitia El Hakim (b. Lebanon) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who studied Architecture, Photography, and Dance. Laetitia explores socio-political dynamics that affect the way Lebanon and its culture are shaped through an anthropological perspective. She is pursuing not only the role the territory plays in shaping us, but also the cultural aspects of what it means, more specifically through the notions of rituals, memories, and history. Her practice often takes performative and storytelling aspects in its execution, oscillating between reality, fiction, the occult and the fantastic. She formed a duo with Tarek Haddad in 2019. Their work has been shown at Galerie Tanit, Lebanon (2021). She had a residency at Diaphane pôle photographique x Frac-Picardie, France, as part of the program “NAFAS” by the French Institute (2021). She was also selected by the “Catapult-Visual Arts” program (ArtLab x The British Council) to develop her first solo exhibition in 2022.

Laetitia’s residency includes 2 weeks at Hospitalfield joining the Interdisciplinary Residency Programme and 2 weeks at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. The residency was devised as a partnership with British Council Lebanon through their Catapult Visual Arts Programme with Art Lab.

Hazel Swan grew up working on her family’s farm, playing-attention to the materials, processes and attitudes of a hybrid 1970s/1940s multi-generational agricultural life. She works with objects and has an eye for detail and association, utilising symbolism and metaphor in her imagery. She has always deconstructed and remade things.

A Fine Art graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Hazel worked for many years as a Designer with Art Galleries and Museums in Dundee, also teaching Graphic Design in FE College there.

She manages an auto-immune condition and lives in rural Angus.

Kayley Forbes an artist from Arbroath who is currently studying Fine Art DJCAD. She specialises in traditional materials such as oil paints, charcoal, ink and pastels. The themes in her work include the natural rebirth of the earth through the seasons and the relationship we as humans have with the earth. Her subject matter includes people, ethereal beings, landscapes, flora and fauna. Kayley hopes to expand her work in scale, technical ability and overall aesthetic in the time in the Courthouse Studio Programme.

Mary Simpson is a multi-disciplinary artist; as a visual artist she enjoys working with everyday materials such as paper, papier-mache and fabric. Her work comes in a variety of forms from 3D soft sculpture and installations to paintings, drawings and prints. She also makes decorative objects in both papier-mache and fabric and she has designed and created bespoke fabric headpieces. Writing is also a part of her practice, and her short stories and poems have been published in both literary and popular magazines.

Last year she undertook a residency at ‘Surge’ Glasgow, where she built an installation on the theme of fish.  In the past she has also  written, lead-animated and directed a 4 minute animation, ‘Ruftoon Zoo’, and her 2D and 3D artworks has been displayed in curated exhibitions, and sold to private collections throughout the UK.

Whatever medium she works in she aims to make work which is interesting and entertaining, honest, moving and heartfelt.

Rachel Simpson is an illustrator, printed textile designer and recent graduate from Heriot-Watt University with a BA Hons in Design for Textiles (Print). Growing up in the Angus countryside and Arbroath area, her work is heavily influenced by nature and the changing seasons, as well as the tenderness of everyday human interactions. She aims to celebrate the humble aspects of life, creating work that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Working across several mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking, and paper collage, her work has a strong sense of narrative and endearing playfulness, encouraging the viewer to explore their own imagination.

Daira Ronzoni is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dundee and currently in her final year of   Fine Arts degree at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Through storytelling, she investigates the origins of culture, agriculture, and ecology. She is working on her skills in filmmaking and performance. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the United Kingdom in a multicultural family, these themes run through the artist’s work.

Fiona McFarlane (born 1991, Scunthorpe) is a Dundee based artist, performance maker and dance/movement psychotherapist. Fiona’s work is inspired by human behaviour, relationships, social interaction and expression of identity. She often works with collaborative performance making practises or community engagement as a way of sharing the joy and transformative power of performance creation. Fiona’s work utilises movement, voice, image making, text and physical theatre to express personal and social experiences with humour and honesty. www.movingwithfiona.com

Jeni Reid is an Arbroath based visual artist. They work across a variety of mediums including digital and alternative process photography, as well as sewn and spun textiles, exploring ideas of multiple narratives, disavowed histories and memorialisation.  Their work is rooted in Angus but looks further to consider our transnational connections and the influence they have on our land and culture. Jeni likes nature, other peoples’ stuff and is equally baffled and entranced by everyday life.

Jill Skulina is an artist of diverse skills, knowledge and experience. She creates sculptural work using ceramics, drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles and found objects. In recent months Jill has pivoted her career as an artist to include writing and mentoring other artists to shift their perceptions of what they can achieve. Jill is a member of Spilt MIlk Gallery and a Professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, between 1999 and 2007 leaving with a BDes hons in Interior and Environmental Design and a Masters in Fine Art.

Celia Turley is a creative facilitator and cultural organiser. She creates spaces for conversation, collaboration, civic action and joy, propelled by a belief in communities’ power to develop solutions to the issues that affect them. Recent projects have seen her producing a co-created programme exploring the heritage of council housing and a forum theatre residency for people with lived experience of homelessness. Celia has been actively working to realign her life in recognition of the climate crisis. This sees her convening The Resilience Reading Circle, an arts-led reading group that nurtures creative strategies for radical resilience in the face of climate emergency.

Joanna Acevedo is a writer, educator, and editor from New York City. She was nominated for a Pushcart in 2021 for her poem “self portrait if the girl is on fire” and is the author of three books and chapbooks, including Unsaid Things (Flexible Press, 2021) and List of Demands (Bottlecap Press, 2022). Her work can be found across the web and in print, including or forthcoming in Litro, Hobart, and the Rumpus. She is a Guest Editor at Frontier Poetry and The Masters Review, Associate Poetry Editor at West Trade Review, and a member of the Review Team at Gasher Journal, in addition to running interviews at Fauxmoir and The Great Lakes Review. She received her MFA in Fiction from New York University in 2021 and is supported by Creatives Rebuild New York: Guaranteed Income For Artists.

Kelly is an artist and educator.  Her practice is research led, resulting in live, interdisciplinary artworks that engage performance and social choreography to critically explore individual and collective agency. Fascinated by the human and beyond-human systems that shape our beliefs, values and behaviours, she works collaboratively to produce prompts, instructions, props and actions which examine how these organising forces affect us, manifested across multiple formats including exhibitions, broadcasts, books, videos, texts and workshops.  

Her work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial and The Bluecoat, Liverpool.  Recent exhibitions & commissions include Skelf Projects (2022), MIMA (2020), Eastside Projects (2018) and a research residency at Birmingham University (2019).  Currently she is a tutor on the Curating Contemporary Art programme, Royal College of Art.  Previous to this she worked within curatorial, education and public programmes at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and New Art Gallery Walsall as well as directing SUNDAY, an international art fair for young commercial galleries, held in London.

Kyla McCallum is a paper artist who creates installations and paper art projects inspired by origami and geometry. She graduated in 2012 from the Glasgow School of Art with a Master of European Design and set up a studio called ‘Foldability’ in London. Previous projects include commissions for Google, Chanel, Samsung, H&M and Sotheby’s. Kyla also does workshops and commissions for arts organisations and most recently created a sculpture series for the Royal Academy.

Vicki Husband’s first collection of poetry, This Far Back Everything Shimmers, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2016. More recently Vicki published Sykkel Saga, a pamphlet-long poem that travels through the Norwegian Arctic. Vicki’s poetry has been widely published, anthologised, broadcast on radio, and translated as part of collaborative projects with poets from Pakistan and Ukraine. Public reading highlights include StAnza International Poetry Festival, Glasgow Women’s Library and Lahore Literary Festival. Vicki lives in Glasgow and works for the NHS in community rehabilitation.

Bryony Mcintyre and Barry Esson are founding members of Arika, a Scotland-based political arts organization concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change. Arika produces Episodes, an iterative program of multiformat public events staged at Tramway, an arts venue in Glasgow, that has addressed abolitionist politics, conceptual mathematics, disability justice, and the Black Radical Tradition, among other themes. Through its Local Organising program, Arika works to redistribute its access to resources and agency by making them available in solidarity with UK-based grassroots political communities who are pushing back against the violence of racist borders, poverty, and the criminalization of sex work.

Young female artist based in Warsaw, Poland. While working mainly with video, installation, and performance, she focuses on mechanisms of control and processes influencing and exploiting an individual. She uses her poetic visual language to analyse restrictive rules established within intimate relationships, communities, states, or companies, and towards the natural environment.

Graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities by Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2018), visiting student of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (DAAD scholarship for 2019/20), previously of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at the HFBK in Hamburg (2017/18). She also holds a degree in cultural studies from the University of Warsaw (2015).

Her works were presented in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw (2019), Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (2018), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (laureate of the 16. Hestia Artistic Journey Competition, 2017), and Otwock Studio (2016). At the beginning of 2020 Agnieszka was a resident of AiR Futura, Prague.

www.agnieszkamastalerz.com 

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In Hospitalfield Agnieszka Mastalerz will develop her idea of a performance based on an intimate relation between people who make an effort to rescue one another from an approaching crisis. The work draws mainly from an essay by Zygmunt Bauman: From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity.

Alexis Hudgins’ practice co-opts methods used in the production of reality TV to generate new forms through installation, video, performance and writing. Using her experience as a producer for reality television and artist Paul McCarthy, her work considers the often overlooked workers, practices, and sites of labor behind the production of both reality television and contemporary art—each requiring a distinct set of labor skills. She is currently living in London while finishing her dissertation for a PhD in art history, theory and criticism with a concentration in art practice at University of California, San Diego.

Lisette Frimannslund is a visual artist from Bergen, Norway, now based in The Netherlands. She holds a MSc in Industrial Design Engineering from the TU Delft (2004) and a BFA from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2014).

Her main focus lies in the connections between perception, memory, place and movement. She combines elements of photography, drawing, writing and painting; sometimes in the form of an itinerary; a part fact, part fiction travelogue through time, space, memory or mind.

Currently moving towards making artist books, time at Hospitalfield will be spent on two publications where both words and image play a role.

Shannon Quinn is the author of three collections of poetry. Her newest collection, Mouthful of Bees, was published by Mansfield Press in December 2021. Quinn’s work has been widely published in literary journals. She recently co-created an immersive digital eco-myth on climate grief that can be experienced here:https://whosewoods.org/biophilia/.

Previously, Quinn worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio producer. She now divides her time between writing and peer counseling at the Centre for Addiction and Mental  Health in Toronto, Canada. More of her work can be seen at www.shannonquinnpoetry.com/

Barbara Bargiel is a film director and scriptwriter based in London. She moved across from visual and performance art to film, making initially experimental films. Barbara is a recent graduate of NFTS Filmmaking Certificate (2020) supported by the Campaign Bootcamp Community Fund.

In 2021, she received the Screenskills bursary to progress her filmmaking career- including selection to the mentoring programme for the neurodiverse Writers/ Directors set up by the TripleC/ Danc/ Screenskills a part of BFI Future Film Skills in the UK.

In Fall 2021, she was selected to the Sundance CoLLabs Directing & Visual Storytelling to workshop my script. Collab attendance was possible thanks to the Film & TV Charity Bursary. In 2022, she was selected to another Sundance Co//ab Workshop to write her first feature outline, which she is pursuing now. She wants to spend the Interdisciplinary Residency in Scotland writing her first feature film.

Emma Sandström lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. She received her BA (hons) in Fine
Art Photography from Glasgow School of Art (2015) and more recently her MFA from Valand Art Academy (2020). Her practice centers around mythologies, rituals and the tactile materiality of objects. Her work investigates the notion of human interactions with objects and their surroundings, primarily focusing upon the theory of animism. The notion that a trace may somehow remain, long after such interventions. She creates her own physical and fictitious archives around this subject by using photography, video, found material and sculpture.

www.emmasandstrom.com

Lili Chin is a visual artist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary art practice incorporates natural materials, film, video, ceramics, weaving and mixed media to mine historical and personal narratives. She is inspired by nature, ancient rituals, nomadism and personal memory. She has exhibited in New York at Microscope Gallery, 601 Art Space, Abrazo Interno Gallery as well as several other art organizations in the US, Scotland, Latin America, Europe and China. She has also created commissioned installations for museums and institutions in the US and China, including the He Xiangning Museum in Shenzhen and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, CT. She has participated in several residencies, including the MacDowell Colony, The Studios at Mass MoCA, Swatch Art Peace Hotel and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Michele Brody is a mixed-media environmental artist based in The Bronx. Her work is inspired by the range of communities she has come in contact with while living and working as an artist-in-residence throughout the United States and abroad. Her practice is informed by a desire to understand how we manage the constant state of entropy we live in, and the ephemeral qualities of memory and experience within the constant flux of life. During her time at Hospitalfield she plans to focus on her writing as she prepares to publish books documenting two long-term projects. These include: a series of travelogues she has been writing since 1998 when she first started working as an artist-in-residence in France. The second is an interactive community-based project of sharing tea and stories titled “Reflections in Tea.”

www.michelebrody.com

Taking the form of exhibitions, screenings, public programmes, residencies and texts, Paula Lopez Zambrano’s research centres on the relationship between curatorial practice and theory. Zambrano is working within the intersections of post-colonial, de-colonial, feminist and queer studies, looking into strategies of disruption, resistance and re-enactment within performance, moving image and sound art. These approaches combine interests in philosophy, art theory and contemporary art, focusing on notions of embodiment, materiality and ontology.

Zambrano has developed a strong interest in time and temporality, conceiving the accidental, discontinuous and counter-temporal as modes of curatorial research.

Through her figurative paintings and drawings, Fiona Crangle studies moments of shift and change that demand a rewriting of a person’s worldview. She and her subjects connect through curiosity fuelled, exploratory exchanges that allow for collaborative decision-making around an image, reducing the passivity implied by the word “sitter”. Her work appropriates gestures and narratives from art history, and places them within a contemporary context.

Crangle holds a B.F.A. and a B.E.d. and runs a mentoring style studio space. She also cofounded and is currently on the curatorial committee of a grass roots art centre, Critical Mass, which engages her small Canadian town in contemporary art experiences through residencies, installations and community projects.

Using performance writing and installation art, Laura Collins dissects gender politics and analyses the way we interact with the natural environment. Currently, her work explores how the climate crisis exacerbates gender issues. Her creations are whimsical, poetic and bizarre, but firmly grounded in contemporary issues.

Collins’ works include: ‘They Will Blame Chickens’ (Martin Myer Arena, 2018), ‘FREEFALL’ (The Burrow, 2018), ‘A Dog Called Monkey’ (Northcote Town Hall, 2017). Laura’s immersive art installation, ‘Plastisphere’, was presented at Grant St Theatre (2019), Melbourne Fringe (2019), Zero Waste Festival (2019) and Adelaide Fringe (2020). Laura has a Masters of Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Marian Balfe is an Irish artist and designer based between Dublin and the midlands of Ireland. Her practice is multifaceted, and she uses a wide range of media and processes including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and zines to explore fragmented connections to place. These connections are initiated through memory and experience of certain objects, people and animals of a place. Recent exhibitions have included ARTWORKS 2019 at VISUAL, Carlow & peripheriesOPEN 2019, Gorey. Marian holds a BA in Fine Art (Paint) and Visual Culture from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and a BSc in Architecture from University College Dublin.

Whilst at Hospitalfield, Marian Balfe will use her time to explore zines as navigational tools for unresolved, aspirational paintings.

Marilyn Longstaff has written five books of poetry. She lives in Darlington and is a member of Vane Women.

Longstaff is hoping that Hospitalfield will help her shape her next collection of poetry to include several sequences: Pit Brow Lasses about women who worked in the North of England coalfields (based on paintings at the Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland); Eavesdropping – a sound diary. Poems about the experience of gradually losing her hearing;The Salvation Army Officer’s Daughter – a History of Leaving– something you leave but it doesn’t leave you, stitched as it is into the fabric of your being.

Martha Orbach is a visual artist living in Glasgow. She makes work about our relationship with the environment, migration, how we speak about the unspeakable, or make a home in the aftermath. Working with drawing, printmaking, and moving image she often combines analogue and digital processes, text and image, fact and fiction.

She’s collaborated with musicians, communities, and scientists, including at Bethlem Royal Hospital, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, and Freedom from Torture. She studied at the University of East Anglia, London College of Communication and Camberwell College of Art. She’s currently developing work around the title – To Build A Home.

Emma Pfeiffer is an architect and researcher based between London and the US. In 2021, she completed her graduate studies in the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her thesis proposed a cyclical strategy of structural disassembly and material reuse, in the context of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York.

She has practiced as an architect in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London. Her own interdisciplinary work incorporates writing, object-making and architectural design. At Hospitalfield, she will be fabricating and choreographing the collaborative assembly of a small roof structure.

Yvette Bathgate is a visual artist based in Aberdeen. She is interested in thinking and making through different collaborative practices; knowledge, skill and resource sharing, community building, supportive space making and working through structures of labour and care. Day to day Yvette works with different groups of people in hospital settings, schools and community groups, using art as a tool for social practice to build connection, relationships, wellbeing and resilience.