We are delighted to announce Clay AD, Dylan Esposito, Emma Bentley-Fox, Jenő Davies, Josie KO and Rosie Vohra as our third and final 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 September and October. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme sauna, local visits to Pictish stones, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer learning.
Find out about our third cohort of Group Residency artists for 2026 and their work below:
Clay AD (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and somatic bodyworker in Glasgow who uses sculpture, text, sound and movement to explore topics including the soma, esotericism, erotics and faith/fiflth. Clay’s work has been shared in publications, reading groups, exhibits and workshops internationally. They are a full-time freak who believes in a free Palestine and a planet liberated from all oppressive powers.
Dylan Esposito (he/him) is a Glasgow-based artist whose sculptural works often take the form of utilitarian objects that have been rendered unfit for purpose, playing with ideas of functionality & normalcy. He use(s) humour to subvert negative stereotypes of neurodivergence being something negative or needing ‘fixed’. He is particularly interested in sculpture’s capability to engage with various audiences of all abilities & identities through our different senses.
Emma Bentley-Fox (she/they) is a socially-engaged multidisciplinary artist, working between London and Yorkshire. Specialising in access and trauma-informed approaches, they work primarily in analogue photography, extending to installation, performance, sound and participatory projects. Their practice centres community building and collaborative working to generate moments of joy, connection, intimacy and kinship. Their work creates opportunities for transformation and liberatory abandonment of self, through invitations to inhabit imagined worlds, spaces and identities.
Jenő Davies (they/them) is an artist and facilitator working across sculpture, installation and film. They often work collaboratively, both in the city and in the sticks. They like thinking through making, bricolage, the abject, pop imagery and the sublime. Through their practice, they explore horror, landscapes, ritual and solace.
Josie KO (she/her) is a Glasgow-based artist creating immersive sculptural installations that explore ‘utopian longings’. Her research-led practice engages with archival texts and pre-colonial histories, seeking traces of Black presence across the diaspora that challenge narratives positioning Blackness in Britain as recent. Using speculative methods and radical imagination, she expands the limitations of the archive to construct richer, alternative pasts. Working with mixed media and both traditional and experimental techniques, she reimagines the Black female body beyond Western art ideals. Through scale, tactility, and collaboration, her work questions monumentality, representation, and who is deemed worthy of commemoration within British art history.
Rosie Vohra (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leeds. Vohra studied on The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School (2014) receiving The Sir Denis Mahon Award. Prior to this, she studied Fine Art at Leeds Arts University (2010-2013). Selected exhibitions include One is, One isn’t, Assembly House, Leeds (2025), Hand Over, South Block Gallery, Glasgow (2024) and Flying Inside Your Own Body, Slugtown, Newcastle (2023) and WORMB, Quench Gallery, Margate (2022). Vohra works across drawing, painting, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles. Her collagist approach combines found materials, existing works and repetition to build layered narratives between figuration and abstraction, where materials shift, hold memory, and transform.
The Group Residency artists are also joined by Summer Technician Sam Dransfield.
