Example 1, practice-based artist:
Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words people use.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Talbot Rice Residents, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2024; Desde el Salón (From the Living Room), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); Toys for Survival, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (2020); Diaries, Chalton Gallery, London (2019); Outpost Film Open, Norwich (2019); INGEST/digest/excrete, [SPACE], London (2018); An exit soft to the touch, ANDOR, London (2016). She was part of the Talbot Rice Residents programme 2022-2024 and the recipient of the 2016 Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome.
Example 2, writer:
Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional has been long-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize. It was described by the UK Guardian as ‘a quiet novel of immense power’ and has been praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy Fowler, Hannah Kent and Paula Hawkins among others.
Her previous books include The Luminous Solution, a book of essays on the creative process; the international bestseller, The Weekend; and The Natural Way of Things which won a number of prizes including The Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her features and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Saturday Paper among other publications.
In 2023 Belvoir Theatre Company staged an adaptation of her novel The Weekend, and her novel The Natural Way of Things featured in ABC Television’s 2021 series The Books That Made Us.
Example 3, participatory artist:
Mathilde N’Doye is an interdisciplinary artist and chef whose work incorporates community arts, installation and social sculpture. Their current practice investigates food and commensality, exploring the heritage of food and its link to cultural identity and history. Through sharing food within curated environments, their work tells stories of embodied knowledge and social actions, engaging others through the familiar action of eating. Offering encounters with ingredients and the living world, the work queries the origins of taste, smell and feeling within participatory settings. Mathilde reflects upon their own experience, using memory and senses as the materials to build upon their research-driven practice.