Meet our 2025 artists in residence

Anna Chapman Parker is an artist and writer whose work explores relationships between drawing, writing, body and place. Her exhibitions and commissions include projects for Edinburgh Art Festival, The University of Glasgow, Cample Line and Commonroom.co. She has taught drawing at The Royal College of Art, The Futures Institute and in weedy carparks. Her writing has appeared in journals from MAP and Happy Hypocrite to Resurgence & The Ecologist. Her first book, Understorey (2024), is published by Duckworth Books. Anna studied at The University of Edinburgh and University of the Arts London. She now lives in Northumberland.
www.annachapman.co.uk | @annachapmanparker

Emily Cropton is a multi-disciplinary artist working with sculpture, installation, walking and performance. Her work engages with rural contexts and is responsive to places and communities. Emily’s work is driven by a need to understand the interconnectedness of environmental cycles, life cycles, and making processes, and the moments where these connections fail or falter. Through working physically and manually with materials, Emily's current work explores the making and remaking of the landscape through processes of production, erosion and restoration, and how these cycles map onto the human body.
www.emilycropton.com

Georgie Fay is a participatory artist and printmaker based in Scotland. At the core of her artistic vision is a search for place and connections, in landscape and history. She explores critical themes like the mounting tensions between humankind and nature, and the importance of memory and place. Her explorations derive from her personal experiences whether that be recently visited heritage sites, migrating flight patterns or journeys undertaken; she engages in the everyday, and seeks to connect with others through these observations and journeys.
www.georgiefay.com | @georgiefayart

Sam Gillespie is a folk musician and singer-songwriter based in the Borders, whose music has been shaped by the experience of growing up in the fells and valleys of Northumberland. His work brings together mythopoetic and politically radical perspectives, grounded in a sense of the sacredness and animacy of the land and our fundamental dignity and worth as beings. He feels that the encounter with the singing wild, especially at walking pace with nights spent under the stars, can guide us home and open pathways to healing, connectedness and imagination. Sam performs as part of folk duo The Brothers Gillespie.
www.thebrothersgillespie.com | @brothersgillespie | Spotify

Jessie Growden is an artist and writer based in the Scottish Borders. She grew up between a garden centre in England and a forest in Scotland, and finds herself back in the forest more often than not. She studied design for textiles at Heriot-Watt University, and in her 'day job’, she works with a firm of architects and surveyors. Her work considers things including but not limited to: nature, landscape, collections, neurodivergence, songs and bodily autonomy. She mostly works with video, drawing, photography and words. She likes fluffy animals, raunchy fantasy novels, drinking tea, celebrating birthdays, being paid for her work, cycling, knitting, spreadsheets that use conditional formatting, comfortable shoes, long walks in the woods and typing lists of things.
www.jgrowden.com | @jessiegrowden_video

Miwa Nagato-Apthorp is a singer/songwriter and artist based in Hawick in the Scottish Borders. Her music explores multicultural understandings of history, climate, womanhood and home with a focus on bringing lesser known stories into song. In May 2025 Miwa released her debut EP, Noren, which draws on Japanese and Scottish folk traditions to examine her dual heritage from multiple perspectives.
@miwanagato