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Robyn

Woolston

Woolston is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose research-led practice engages with critical ecologies, material culture and the emotive impacts of climate change. Operating at the intersection of installation, moving image and socially-situated practice, her work explores human and non-human entanglements and the affective geographies of ecological degradation. She frequently combines field-based inquiry, archival research and embodied interactions so as to examine how systems of extraction, extinction and displacement are inscribed within the soil and soul of collective consciousness. In 2024 Woolston represented Scotland as part of the ‘Turning the Tide’ programme in Gdańsk, Poland – an international cultural initiative focused on the role of art in responding to rising tides. Her work, exhibited at the Cultural Institute in Gdansk, further explored interspecies relationality, coastal ecologies, and the symbolic residues of post-industrial environments; embedding her practice within broader discourses of ecological aesthetics and more-than-human ethics. Woolston’s work contributes to contemporary debates in environmental humanities and expanded media art by challenging anthropocentric paradigms and proposing art as a site for sensory reorientation and ecological awareness. Her approach offers a critical model for immersive practice that is grounded in relational, affective and site-responsive modalities.

Disciplines: Installation

Location: Kinloch Laggan, Newtonmore

Materials: Assemblage, Found, Objects, Paper, Photomontage
Woolston is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose research-led practice engages with critical ecologies, material culture and the emotive impacts of climate change. Operating at the intersection of installation, moving image and socially-situated practice, her work explores human and non-human entanglements and the affective geographies of ecological degradation. She frequently combines field-based inquiry, archival research and embodied interactions so as to examine how systems of extraction, extinction and displacement are inscribed within the soil and soul of collective consciousness. In 2024 Woolston represented Scotland as part of the ‘Turning the Tide’ programme in Gdańsk, Poland – an international cultural initiative focused on the role of art in responding to rising tides. Her work, exhibited at the Cultural Institute in Gdansk, further explored interspecies relationality, coastal ecologies, and the symbolic residues of post-industrial environments; embedding her practice within broader discourses of ecological aesthetics and more-than-human ethics. Woolston’s work contributes to contemporary debates in environmental humanities and expanded media art by challenging anthropocentric paradigms and proposing art as a site for sensory reorientation and ecological awareness. Her approach offers a critical model for immersive practice that is grounded in relational, affective and site-responsive modalities.

Previous Experience

2026 ‘Cairngorms 2030’ Artist in Residence > In partnership with The Bothy Project & Glen Esk Folk Museum. A ‘National Lottery Heritage Fund’ project. 2025 Inverclyde Artist Residency / Adult Mental Health > RIG Arts, Greenock. Funded by Creative Scotland. 2024 ‘Turning the Tide’ Artist in Residence > Gdańsk, Poland. The ‘TTT’ project involves 5 project partners – Intercult (Sweden), Artit (Greece), Wiener Bildungsakademie (Austria), DEAR HUNTER (Netherlands) and the Urban Culture Institute (Poland) in collaboration with Fablevision Scotland and the River//Cities network. 2022 – 23 Creative Scotland – Open Fund for Individuals ‘Yours, in Extraction’ (Publication) 2019-22 Fort Worth, Texas, USA / Residency> The Art Galleries at TCU, TCU Institute for Environmental Studies and TCU College of Fine Arts, School of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

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