Residency

A Spotlight on Past Resident Artists

Chloe Charlton and Emily Charlton are moving image practitioners based in Glasgow. The artists’ newly formed collaboration was marked by their experimental 16mm work Memories of the Shoreline (2021). They are currently working on Soft Landing, a process-driven project utilising analogue film techniques to reconstruct a mountainous landscape. Chloe Charlton’s body of work to date has addressed the geological world transmitted from the camera’s animating eye. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2021 and her films have screened at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Ilaji Studio, and Transmission Gallery. Emily Charlton is a recipient of the BBC Arts and Arts Council England New Creatives scheme and received her MA in Experimental Film from Kingston University in 2021. Her work has been published in the Fieldnotes Journal and screened at the ICA, FILET, Strangloscope and Alchemy.

Indonesian-born Scottish Artist, ecologist and broadcaster Russell A. Beard MFA uses video, sculpture and printmaking to explore the liminal space between order and chaos, growth and disintegration.

Arising from the social, geo-political and environmental uncertainty of the 'Anthropocene' Beard’s work emerges at the nexus of fine art, dark ecology and the environmental humanities and represents an on-going exploration of the tensions between the creative, generative force of life’s perpetual becoming and the cosmic processes of entropy and decay.

Using salvaged materials and found objects Russell A. Beard presents a series of works that touch on deep time and the cyclical nature of materiality while drawing on spontaneous physical and chemical processes that deeply resonate with seismic societal and ecological transformations currently underway.

Working across genres of documentary film, temporal installation, farming, and social practice, the heart of Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kang’s work is the human relationship to nature, and a cultivation of ecologically interconnected ways of thinking and being. Since 2011, they have had the pleasure to interact with audiences in the UK, Korea, Japan, and the USA. They recently completed a feature-length documentary titled Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Gray's School of Art in 2010 Stephen Kavanagh's practice developed beyond the painting degree he now holds. Exploring both 2 and 3 dimensional outcomes for different projects, allowing the material and subject matter to shape the finished products. Awarded the RSA John Kinross Scholarship in 2010, which provided an intense period of research in Florence, leading to a large body of work exhibited across the UK as well as Florence and Paris. Investing in several self funded research trips across Europe and Southeast Asia fuelled his inquisitive nature and contributed towards his extensive portfolio. In 2013 Stephen returned to education, obtaining his MFA degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2015. 

Since graduating he has continued his exploration of subject matter and materials, expanding his practice further into the sculptural realm, as well as developing film and sound pieces. Focusing on how we interact with the built environment he investigate its impact on us, exploring themes such as place, space, destruction and absence of presence.  Recently he has participated in residencies in Catania, Italy and Minneapolis, United States. Stephen's practice continuously evolves in response to his interpretation of the built environment. Exploring place and space in relation to locations experienced firsthand, witnessing actions or responding to past events. 

During Luis B. Guzmán’s recent residency at Sea Loft in Kinghorn, he reconnected with Scottish culture, an influence that stems from his studies at the University of Edinburgh. He also conducted a series of experiments with new technologies, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, while dedicating time to advancing his research in the field of aerospace technology. Images from a presentation by Luis can be seen here, and more of his work on the Exhibitions & Events page.