Residencies
About our 2025 artists in residence
We're delighted to announce our six artists in residence for 2025. The residencies are designed to celebrate and support the talented creatives that live and work in the south of Scotland and north Northumberland.
The six selected artists for 2025 are: Anna Chapman Parker, Emily Cropton, Georgie Fay, Sam Gillespie, Jessie Growden and Miwa Nagato-Apthorp.
The six residents work across a wide range of art forms and disciplines, including: drawing, printmaking, music and songwriting, performance, sculpture and video. The fully funded residencies offer these artists the opportunity to pursue a range of creative and research areas in response to the River Tweed and the Connecting Threads 2025 programming theme, Watery Commons.
About our 2024 artists in residence
Sam Laughlin, Untitled from Spinning Away (2023)
Upper Tweed: Sam Laughlin
June – September, 2024
Sam Laughlin is a British visual artist primarily concerned with intricate natural processes, patterns and cycles. Mainly utilising large format black and white photography, his work is characterised by sustained and informed engagement with the natural world - things which occur slowly and a slow way of looking at them.
For more detail on how Sam engaged with the developing ecology of Borders Forest Trust's Wild Heart sites, read his residency reflections.
Coleman and Hodges, Field Station: Here. Participatory walk and installation. VARC (2022)
Middle Tweed: Coleman and Hodges
May – October, 2024
Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges are public artists based in Dumfries and Galloway. They have a shared arts practice that investigates ecological and socio-cultural systems, processes, relationships and change. They are interested in research, experimentation and collaboration. Their wide-ranging working methods include film, performance, visual art and installation.
For more information on how Coleman & Hodges explored the pathways of the middle section of the River Tweed, read their residency reflections.
Annie Lord, Grower Portraits. Text on illustrated apple wrappers. 2021
Lower Tweed: Annie Lord
July – September, 2024
Annie Lord is an artist and writer based in Midlothian. Her practice encompasses collaborative, socially engaged projects, visual artworks and creative non-fiction writing. She is fascinated by how we interact with the physical world – transforming plants, animals, and minerals into objects of artistic, scientific and domestic value.
For more insight into Annie's explorations of the newly restored Berwick Bridge in its 400th year, read her residency reflections.
www.annielord.co.uk