Chantal Balmer

• Weaver & Textile
• Designer


Chantal Balmer is a Woven Textile Designer based in Glasgow. Her interests lie in exploring and experimenting with geometric patterns and structural woven forms.

Her exhibition work interprets form, light and woven structures, through a juxtaposition of natural and man-made materials. The interactions between the two cause the fabrics to pleat, undulate and fold organically, allowing her textiles to influence their own shape.

Joshua Elza Breen-Tucci

• Visual Artist/Designer


Joshua Elza Breen-Tucci (he/him, b. 1991) is an intermedia artist, musician, designer, and curator whose core art practice encompasses sound, kinetic machines, and relational aesthetics. his work aims to challenge conventional views of art as static objects to be passively observed, instead inviting viewers to engage in dynamic, embodied, and co-creative experiences. at its core, josh’s practice is fuelled by a desire to examine and perforate the nature of reality, drawing attention to phenomena and machinations which are invisible, obscured, or otherwise overlooked.

Josh is from occupied Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Ute territory – he currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mark Anthony Burgoyne

• Designer


Mark Anthony Burgoyne is a multi-disciplinary designer, specialising in graphic design, photography and sound. His current focus is on type design—the work presented here is an early stage work in progress, begun in late 2023. These ‘tests’ offer the viewer an insight into the development of the typeface—a complex process of often minute adjustments across hundreds of permutations presented between letterforms, numbers and symbols. Whilst now an inherently digital process, iterations are printed out regularly and pinned to the studio walls, and are displayed here in their simplest form, without the typical hand rendered scribbles and adjustments.    

Lynsey Calder

• Textile Designer


Lynsey Calder is a Printed Textile Designer who combines traditional materials and textiles practices with novel applications. Her areas of interests are rooted in printed pattern with traditional yet innovative materials where slow hand skills and meditative repetition of movements are combined to produce usable textiles pieces. She is interested in the positive effect colour and textures can have in our everyday lives. Her current work 'Long Division' is influenced by a recent trip to Japan where she studied katazome, shibori and indigo dyeing. 'Noren', a traditional door curtain has been portrayed here as a gateway between worlds..

Vivian Carvalho  

• Photographer
  


Vivian Carvalho is a Photographer/Digital Artist. A good photographic shot is not always planned, sometimes it can present itself unexpectedly. Vivian captured this image by chance; smoke disperses over Glasgow on a cold winters morning as a category A listed building turned night club is destroyed by fire. Memories of buildings with cultural significance to the city linger in the air along with the smoke.

Jack Cheetham

• Visual Artist
  


Puppets have 'lives of their own', and Cheetham is interested in how puppet play is used in theatrical, political, and therapeutic contexts, and how they can be used as an alternative mode of communication through roleplay as a treatment for trauma. Untitled examines the potential and ongoing failures of its creators through a certain consumer-driven fantasied moment(s) in time. It is rooted in contemplations around consumerist cultures, labours, and legacies. It also incorporates expanded forms of caricature, cartooning and character design. All realised as a potential mode of personifying, exhausting, and evaporating the effects that environment, objects, and materials can have on communities over time.

Scott Crawford

• Designer
  


Scott is a designer with a focus on creating minimal, contemporary homewares. Heavily inspired by architectural forms and natural materials, he works across mediums to create pieces that reference Scottish heritage and links it to the contemporary design landscape. His work shown in 'Coalesce' is a mix of minimal ceramic pieces and woodworking projects, showcasing his visual identity as a designer. 

Louise Donnelly

• Visual Artist
  


Louise Donnelly, an Irish visual artist residing in Glasgow, draws inspiration from a diverse array of disciplines, including painting, ceramics, and textiles. Her artistic journey, shaped by a rich background and teaching experience, intertwines these mediums seamlessly. Delving into anthropology and psychology, her creations reflect a profound exploration of human behaviours, influenced by her experiences in the prison sector. Within her latest mixed-media collection, themes of incarceration, addiction, and the impact of one's social environment emerge prominently.

George Douglas

• Visual Artist
  


The nundinal cyclopaedia formed a rib within quotidian Roman ligature. Faros and crampons from Rome’s hip joint would rest from worldliness on the nundinae to visit the civility, selling groomsmen and suppressors which the Romans or their sleepers would purchase for the next eight dead-cat bounces. Audiograms were held. Childminders and adulators were exempted from science fiction. 

Dylan Esposito

• Visual Artist


Dylan’s works often take the form of utilitarian objects that have been rendered unfit for purpose, playing with ideas of functionality & normalcy. He draws parallels to the autistic experience and uses humour to subvert negative stereotypes of neurodivergence being something negative or needing fixed. 'Round Peg in a Square Hole' playfully examines the miscommunications of implied meaning & literal interpretation of idioms.