Siobhan is an artist and curator based in Glasgow. She graduated with First Class MA(Hons) Fine Art at Edinburgh University in 2019 and has since been awarded the SSA Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award and a film commission from the Tate’s British Art Network. More recently, Siobhan was awarded a VACMA Award, RSA Residencies for Scotland Award, a VAS Cornwall Exchange Residency and Stephen Palmer Travel Award. “Working with remnant textiles and gathered earth pigments, my practice connects experiences of the landscape layered with memories and connections to people, the body, and time. Exploring themes of place, care and sustainability through painting, printmaking and installation, I consider how past and current activities leave impressions on our ecologies. I have a long-standing interest in gathering remnant materials, from the landscapes I walk and the communities I meet, sewing the histories of these textiles into the landscape of the painting. Paint is also gathered while walking, from ancient ochres in river beds to earth stained red by the mining industry, speaking to the land’s ability to hold knowledge and memory, of labour and scars. This idea of holding and embodiment is intrinsic to my work, as the hidden struggle of chronic pain is woven into my paintings, thoughts on care and resistance are embedded in paint made from ground earth. By using a material palette so rooted in body and place, I’m asking ‘what can we learn when we slow down and how can this help us care for our land and each other’.”