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Announcing Ecologies In The Making: Sculpting Futures Artist 2025

Academy of Fine Arts alumni Harriina RäinäPHOTO: SADE KAHRA

We are delighted to announce the Academy of Fine Arts alumni Harriina Räinä has been selected for our “Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures” residency programme 2025.

Following the open call in September 2024 an international jury of experts pre-selected the grant applicants.

Visual artists Heather Peak & Ivan Morison formed part of the preselection panel and said:
Harriina’s work is clearly seriously engaged with environmental concerns, and we were impressed by the powerful means of presentation she has developed for her practice. She proposes a clear line of research for Cove Park, and how this would translate to a period of experimental production at SSW. The jury would encourage her to take the opportunity to push the work further and allow herself and her work to go a little wilder. Preselection Jury Panel: Harriina Räinä’s application had a clear rationale for the residency, and for both organizations, it will be the first time we’ve had the opportunity to work with an artist exploring shell matter and its use in this way. Final Selection jury were Alexia Holt, Cove Park & Sam Trotman, Scottish Sculpture Workshop

The aim of the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures residency is to support visual artists to study and develop ecological methods and contexts for their artistic practice. The artist residency is divided into two parts, allowing for two separate areas of development: the first two-month part of the residency will take place at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, and the second two-month part will take place at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire. 

Congratulations Harriina Räinä on this unique residency programme and grant. We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland next summer.

This residency is made possible for Academy of Fine Arts alumni through the Uniarts Helsinki´s Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation partnership program “International Networks in Fine Arts.” Other residency partners in this programme are: Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, LIFT Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.

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