Studio Visits
Join us on our immersive "boots-on-the-ground" Studio Visits to see how other practitioners solve problems, organise their workflows, and bridge the gap between a raw idea and a sustainable business.
Artist Pippa Gatty
Since completing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2008, Pippa Gatty has exhibited her dark, intimate paintings widely in the UK and abroad, but few people have made it up to Mull to see her meticulous process first-hand in her converted barn studio. Join Pippa for a look around her studio and the landscape around it and gain an insight into how her environment affects her process and how entirely not new isolation is to her.
Bookbinder Gillian Stewart
We head to the East End of Glasgow to meet award-winning bookbinder Gillian Stewart and take a nosey around her studio space. Bookbinder, illustrator, and all-round paper enthusiast Gillian founded Juju Books (@JuJu.Books) in Glasgow in 2017.
Designer Siobhan McKenna
Siobhan is an independent, enthusiastic denim designer and maker. She founded ReJean Denim in May 2018, working primarily with reclaimed fabrics to create one-off classic pieces that are made to last. ReJean is a gender-neutral sustainable fashion label built on reclaiming, repurposing and repairing denim for a new generation of conscious consumers.
Artist Serena Caulfield
Serena Caulfield is an Irish artist based in Wexford, specialising in painting and drawing. Combining personal recollections and universal/inherited histories, Serena re-imagines historical works of art, allowing her to reclaim them, filling the void of the art collection once owned by her ancestral family.
Artist Tina Crawford
Free embroidery artist, Tina Crawford, is based in Deptford, South East London. In addition to her creative practice making original works, Tina also runs her homewares brand, Tobyboo, through which she makes bespoke products and gift ranges for some of the Capital’s most iconic venues including Shakespeare’s Globe, St Paul’s Cathedral, Sir John Soane Museum, Kew Gardens, Oxford University, and John Lewis.
Artist Flore de Hoog
Enter the home-studio of Glasgow-based artist Flore de Hoog for an inside look at her practice and body of work. Flore is a textile designer turned free-hand artist who has become best-known for her exquisite hand-drawn wall works, which grace the walls of homes across Scotland. Flore believes that the imperfection and uniqueness of her work are what makes it special and more artwork than wallpaper.
Theatre GM Sergey Jakovsky
Visit Glasgow’s Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, home to sculptor-mechanic Eduard Bersudsky and theatre director Tatyana Jakovskaya life’s work of hundreds of carved figures and pieces of old scrap, which perform an incredible choreography to haunting music and synchronised light. With his kinetic sculptures, Eduard’s pieces tell the funny and tragic stories of the human spirit as it struggles against the relentless circles of life and death.
Expressionist Anne Harkin-Petersen
For abstract expressionist artist, Anne Harkin-Petersen, painting is a way of reflecting on life and making sense of the chaos. Her work is concerned with a world beyond the tangible, opening a portal into a domain that encourages the imagination to go beyond conscious reality into possible alternatives to this materialist world, which in the current climate is a very welcomed escape.
CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey
In a deviation from our normal programme of visiting artists’ studios, this time we will enjoy a guided tour around the stunning indoor and outdoor spaces of Cove Park, the international residency centre one hour north of Glasgow on the Rosneath Peninsula.
Join Cove Park’s new CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Catrin Kemp, Partnerships Manager, for an insight into Cove Park’s unique programme of residencies, commissions and collaborative projects, which respond to and support the diversity of contemporary artistic practice in all the art forms, the creative industries and – as Cove Park looks to the future – across sectors.
Magazine Founder Rhia Cook
Buckle up for our latest virtual adventure this month as we head to the buzzing creative hub that is Dundee to have a wee nosey around the home studio of Potluck Magazine Editor Rhia Cook. Potluck is a collaborative magazine dedicated to sharing your stories about cooking, eating, and sharing food.
Working as a one-woman army, Rhia does everything from concept development to illustration, article selection, editing, and layout, not to mention marketing and sales, in order to put out 3 stunning magazines per annum. It’s no small task, but it’s moving in the right direction.
Designer Christopher McEvoy-Barton
Visit the East End of Glasgow to have a peek inside of Vevar, a woven textile studio and modern micro mill developed by award-winning designers, Christopher McEvoy-Barton and Chantal Allen. Vevar is a small batch manufacturer and can produce a range of fabrics on its 1940’s dobcross loom, as well as smaller hand-woven lengths on its range of antique and traditional sample looms.
Artist Debbie Young
We are Glasgow-bound to chat with Debbie Young, an award-winning artist and founder of Studio Mama, an independently run ceramics studio which began in response to the issues faced by creatives – namely high costs and a lack of support.
Studio Mama offers affordable kiln hire (without membership), workshops, expertise and bespoke commissions. Clients include The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Art. Studio Mama most recently exhibited in Glasgow International Festival 2021.
