We are delighted to announce Bao-Yin Hall, Danielle Macleod, Jo Matthews, Rudy Loewe, Shehzad Jaffer and Tamsin MacArthur, as our second group of artists selected for Group Residency 2026.
The SSW team are supporting the artists in developing their practices over the course of their month-long residency this August. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of sauna, local visits to Pictish stones, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer learning.
Find out about our second cohort of Group Residency artists for 2026 and their work below:
Bao-Yin Hall is an emerging ceramic sculptor and performance artist based in Leeds. Their practice is a tool of (re)connection to ancestry, both blood related and queer/transcestors of history. Bao’s work explores themes of their Hakka Hongkongese and British heritages, disability, gender, fetish, and spirituality. Their work walks the line between the childlike and the grotesque, inviting playful discomfort as an opportunity for expansion. Inspired by Asian ‘folk’ art lineages and Buddhist imagery, Bao hopes to birth earnest creatures that smile in the face of nihilist dystopia.
Danielle Macleod is a lens-based artist from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Her practice explores the intertwined relationships between people, landscape, and oral tradition. She creates photographic images where the human merges with sculptural forms made from natural materials gathered from land and sea. These figures symbolise transformation and becoming, evoking otherworldly presences that draw on ancestral pasts while hinting at possible futures. Through a process of handling each material, sculpted beings unveil themselves in collaboration with the environment we belong to.
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Jo Matthews is artist, artists’ support worker and radio show host based in Scotland, working with performance, sound, video, installation, and analogue photography. Collaboration, entanglement, and environmental awareness shape their approach, and they’re driven by questions of how humans and non-humans live alongside one another during ecological crisis. Much of Jo’s practice focuses on creating closeness and intimacy. They are drawn to humour, eeriness, and the uncanny as ways to hold difficult feelings such as grief and uncertainty.
Their work has been shown at Sett Studios (2025), CCA Glasgow (SQIFF, 2024), Dalkeith Palace (2024), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (2022), Art Walk Porty Festival (2021, 2022, 2023) and commissions include Art Walk Porty (2022-23), IUCN World Conservation Conference (2020, Marseille) and Live Art Development Agency & Chapter Arts Centre (2018). Their sound art has been played across artist-led radio stations, including Radiophrenia, NTS, Asif radio, and EHFM, where they have a regular show. They recently received funding from Creative Scotland’s Open Fund (2026) an A-N research bursary (2023) and the VACMA Award (2025 & 2021).
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Rudy Loewe (b. London, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist who blends painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine a complex web of socio-political dynamics. Through their work, Loewe brings to life histories unearthed through archival research and interviews.
In 2025, Loewe became the ninth exhibiting artist for the Art on the Underground Brixton Mural Programme. This work honours the historic role that Brixton has played as a gathering space, particularly for London’s black communities, adding another layer to Loewe’s ongoing exploration of culture, identity, resistance and collective memory.
Shehzad Jaffer‘s practice explores the complexities of the conscious world, morphing the cyclical nature of human history, conflicting and ever-changing philosophies around good and evil, and the intermingling of creation and destruction. Drawing from the chaos of the human psyche to summon dimensions that confront and dissect ‘the spectacle.’ Jaffer’s work operates as a sort of glitch in the theatrical nature of our perceived reality, the deceptively algorithmic idea of self and the wider world, presented through the lens of a nonlinear timeline that brings forth a stream of convoluted tales.
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Tamsin MacArthur is an artist based in Glasgow. Her work explores faithful quests and pilgrimages made in the pursuit of belief and meaning. Her sculptural and installation work prioritises a playful and expansive range of materials and a naive approach to making. Using non-linear story telling, archetypal symbols and imagery, she employs mythologies that example moments of failure, perseverance and optimism. Building a boat which fails to sail or a bell that cannot ring are honourable acts but ultimately tales of failure. Her work aims to capture this sense of trial and error in an earnest yet comical, hopefully, hopeless way.
Since graduating from Sculpture and Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art she was a recipient of a graduate residency at Cove Park as well as SaltSpace Gallery. Most recently she attended a residency at the Pedvāle Māklas Park in Latvia where she was mentored in granite stone carving.
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The Group Residency artists are joined by Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures artist Roy Boswell and their collaborator Vita Matiyas. Harriet Rose Morley also joins the SSW team as Summer Technician this August.
