Folklore is not fixed, it shifts with each telling, shaped by the voices, places, and times that carry it forward. Ayrshire’s landscape, from the rugged coastline and its selkie myths to the haunted kirks immortalised by Robert Burns, has long inspired tales of transformation, belonging, and the unseen.

Future Folklore: The Art and Craft of Storytelling brings together artists and makers who use material practice as a way of preserving and inventing stories. Through clay, textile, wood, paper, sound, and performance, they reimagine the myths of Ayrshire while creating new narratives that speak to contemporary life.