SSW is excited to announce that Ellie Ballantine has been selected to undertake the SGSAH Artist Residency at SSW. Ellie will be working over 3 months to explore Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice. Working alongside our Community Making Space Ellie will explore the potential of working with locally grown, regenerative materials and how these materials positively impact community regeneration, empowerment, wellbeing and economies.
Ellie says:
‘I am delighted to contribute to SSW’s Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice research project. As an artist researcher interested in sustainable approaches to making, this residency presents a unique and valuable opportunity to be part of SSW’s investigation into working with grown and regenerative materials within a local context. I am particularly looking forward to working with the SSW team and the contributors to the Community Making Space in Lumsden’
Ellie is a researcher and writer based in the Scottish Borders. Her creative practice and research explores forests, the temporalities of conservation and the long durational lives of mosses, lichens and trees. She is interested in finding practices that open up questions of how to live more carefully in consideration of the temporal experiences of others, human and more-than-human. Recently, her practice utilises plant materials for dyes and alternative approaches to photography to consider slower and more sustainable processes of making that work with plants across seasonal cycles. She is particularly interested in tensions between working with plants as a material whilst simultaneously aiming to highlight their agency through the making process.
We look forward to welcoming Ellie to SSW in March.
