To accompany the announcement of our new Satellites Group Show, pass shadow, whisper shade, we are delighted to present the participating artists:
Josie KO (she/her) is a Glasgow based emerging artist who purposefully works with non-traditional methods and mediums to construct Black figures in a way that glorifies the handmade and the artist’s hand. The scale of her works is immersive and unavoidably noticeable, counteracting the erasure of Black women in British history and Black female artists.
Key exhibitions include Generators Project (Dundee), Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), Bomb Factory (London) and VITRINE Gallery (Basel, Switzerland). They have also been the recipient of Stephen Palmer Travel Award 2024.
Rowan Markson (he/him) is an artist working through images, words, and objects; both familiar and cryptic. Stemming from a personal exploration of Jewishness, his practice delves into contested phrases, events, and histories that fold and unfold the tragedy and farce of suffering as identity. Rowan will begin an MA in Historical Research at Birkbeck University 24/25 to expand and challenge his practice further.
A live growing archive/depository can be found at adventitiousroots.net, initiated by support from the Creative Scotland Open Fund 2021.
Clarinda Tse - Yung Kee 雍記 (she/they) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and embodied researcher, Hong Kong-born and Glasgow-based. Their habitat explores emergent compositions of material ecologies through rituals, labour, and bodies, deconstructing capitalist time and extending imagination towards more-than-human entities including micro and macro plastics. They currently think with seaweed.
Recent works have been shown and supported by Zinnober Festival, Hanover (2024), Glasgow International 2024, CCA Glasgow (2024), Cafe OTO (2024), Take Me Somewhere Festival 2023, The Work Room, Glasgow (2022), Deveron Projects, Huntly (2022), Buzzcut Double Thrills (2022).
Hannan Jones (she/her) is an artist whose current research expands hybridity, language, and rhythms associated with psychogeography and cultural and social migration. Practicing at the intersections of sculpture, sound, moving image, and performance, her intention is to find togetherness, even if temporary. Underpinning her practice is an evolution of sound: Hannan works with electronics, music concrete, improvisation, and analogue recordings. Using samples and layering of audio material, she reclaims parallel histories, and reimagines connections between them.
Previous presentations and screenings, such as the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Selected 13 UK tour, MENA Film Festival in Vancouver, CCA Annex, Edinburgh Art Festival, Well Projects in Margate. Sonically, she has performed with collaborators and in various musical formations as part of Future Soundscapes, Berlin, Archive Sites at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, David Dale Gallery (in partnership with Clyde Build Radio), Cafe Oto, London, Counterflows, Glasgow, and New Radicalisms in Rotterdam.
Katherine Fay Allan (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and creative facilitator based in Edinburgh. Her practice extends her lived experiences of chronic illness into discussions of the wider politics of societal and ecological health. Her research-driven methodology examines connections between art, life sciences, and philosophy; exploring ways to provide genuine cathartic experiences through art engagement. In previous projects, she has collaborated with plants, insects, and the sea to produce ever-changing sensory artworks that explore ephemerality, embodiment, and renewal.
Exhibitions include; Gastromancy, LifeSpace Gallery (present), Guardian of the Grain, Summer Festival Hosptialfield (2024), Blooms for Domesday, Neverending Glen (2024), Insect Mimicry, Birnham Arts (2022), ‘The rest of us… we just go gardening’, RSA (2020). Awards include; VACMA (2023; 2023), The Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary (2023), The Creative Development Bursary (2022), The RSA Art Prize (2020), The Iain Eadie Award (2019), and Healthcare Designed in Dundee (2019). Residencies include; Burnieshed (2024), The Bothy Project (2023), The Museum of Loss and Renewal (2022), Hospitialfield (2022), and Ninewells Community Garden (2020).
Emelia Kerr Beale primarily works in drawing, sculpture and textiles. At the moment they are interested in personal and collective textile histories of the East Midlands. Their work often thinks about bodies as both destructive and tools of destruction, in relation to illness and resistance.