About Us

Tavienne is an artist/curator based in the Scottish Borders. She is Director of The Tim Stead Trust, and has worked within the arts sector for 12 years for Arts Organisations such as The Henry Moore Institute & The Pipe Factory. Previously the Arts & Enterprise Officer at Wasps, she has organised over 300 exhibitions, residencies, art fairs & events including producing Scotland’s largest Artist & Makers Market.

Kam is an Edinburgh-based conceptual artist who works across printmaking, photography, and clay. Drawing on a background in fine art and philosophy, their work explores themes of failure, forgetting, and preservation. With over 15 years of professional experience, they are committed to improving conditions within the creative industries and advocating for diverse voices through collaborative and participatory design, curation and production.

Hannah is an art practitioner working in Edinburgh. She has recently pivoted from painting to pursue her interest in ceramics and sculpture. Her current work explores the nature of our interactions with “art”, creating forms that are organic and tactile. She has studied art in the context of its creative therapeutic benefits and does some work in this field.

Charles is an artist living and working in Edinburgh, where he studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. His sculptures, in paper and wood, and stop-motion animations draw from the forms, structures and histories of the built environment.

Amanda Airey has worked in the creative sector for over 20 years in a number of roles from bid writing, economic development, curation, and strategy. A fine art graduate, she continues her art practice focusing mainly on landscape and the natural world.

Scott Smith is a contemporary silversmith based at Deemouth Artist Studios in Aberdeen, celebrated for combining traditional techniques with a modern design approach. Raised in North East Scotland, he draws inspiration from local Pictish stones and ancient metalwork, informing his detailed, hand-raised silverware.

Toni is an abstract systems painter based in North East Scotland. She loves working in a range of mediums from oil paint to resin. The basic ingredients of her work are the celebration of colour and the enjoyment of paint.

Anna is a visual artist based in north Edinburgh. Drawing based, Anna’s artwork and abstract illustrative style explores form, themes of illusion, rhythm and poetry  inspired by movement, memory, written and unwritten languages, with supporting work consisting of writing, photography, colour and material experimentation.

Niamh uses her practice as a space for navigating her reflections upon the ordinary and its underlying ambiguity. Through drawing and painting, she takes notice of the strangeness and familiarity of daily life as she encounters it, through direct observation, photography and other visual media, playing with image and surface to reflect the slight intangibility found in everyday life.

Alison is an Edinburgh born painter whose work explores traces of life in unpeopled landscapes. Her work is characterised by her bold brushstrokes and energetic mark-making. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2021 and has gone on to exhibit her work in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Dundas Street Gallery, and the Royal Scottish Acade

Vincent, the artist behind FUNOMΣNOLOGY, is a way-weird trailblazer with an instinct for ecological collaboration. His portfolio spans performance art, installation art, songwriting, singing, drawing, painting, sculpting, videography, rug tufting, voice acting, film acting – as well as performing and recording music.

Gabriella is a painter and educator located in New York State. Originally from Boston Massachusetts, with Scottish roots, Gabriella received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College, and her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work focuses on intimacy, kinship, comfort, touch, and connection. Gabriella teaches Drawing & Painting at Skidmore College.