We are delighted to announce Hannah Ekuwa Buckman, Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Jessica Crisp, Lily Lavorato, Maïa Taïeb, Molly M. Whawell and Nicky May Bolland as our third and final cohort of artists selected for Group Residency 2025.
The SSW team are excited to be supporting the artists to develop their practices over the course of their month-long residency. Alongside inductions and support in ceramics, metalwork, blacksmithing and stonework, Group Residency includes a collective programme of walks, sauna, film nights, potluck meals, artist sharings and peer learning.
Below we share more information about the artists on Group Residency this October and November:
Hannah Ekuwa Buckman is a multi-disciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, animation, and textiles (and soon metalwork!). Her practice explores cycles of womanhood and nature, rituals, mythology, and the sometimes elusive in-between. She also runs arts workshops, focusing on bringing people together to create in nature.
Hannah Leighton-Boyce is a Manchester-based artist working across sculptural formats including collage, writing, drawing, print, site-responsive installation, and live event. Her practice is shaped by an interest in material and sensory relationships, contemplating the interrelations between people, objects, and their environments. Collage and writing have been central to her recent work, offering a space to explore mending, joining, and reimagining—a means of holding together fragments of body, form, and landscape, closely tied to lived experience.
After studying printmaking at Gray’s School of Art, Jessica Crisp graduated in 2007 and has been working in open access print studios and academic print departments since. Jessica’s practice is print based and exhibits nationally and internationally.
In October 2023 Jessica relocated to Golspie in the Highlands where she grew up. She works part time gardening for Dunrobin Castle alongside teaching printmaking, natural dye and papermaking. She takes on freelance research, community projects and produces exhibitions and events, both for her own work and that of others.
Lily Lavorato is British-Italian artist currently based in Glasgow, working across sculpture, drawing and writing. Their wounded forms point to ruptures in bodies and landscapes to explore moments of transition, vulnerability and gestures of care. They recently had their first solo show at Embassy Gallery and have shown at Haarlem Art Space, Two Queens Studio and SERF.
Maïa Taïeb is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She works with video, sculpture (primarily wood) and installation. Her practice centres on alternative storytelling, imagined truths conveyed through objects and spaces.
Fueled by a love for craftsmanship, my work often blends material honouring sculptures and cinematic storytelling, using props, sets, and sculptural forms as emotional agents within fictional narratives. My close relationship to materiality feeds my filmmaking with tangible sensitivity, and my cinematic plots infuse concepts for new sculptures to arise.
From childhood fears and dreams to screams for bodily freedom, I like to address urgent topics with a playful use of various mediums.
Often times, my work reveals at the intersection of play and critique.
I think of my practice as a living being, growing with my experiences, both ‘expressing’ and ‘telling me’ about who I am and where I am.
Molly M. Whawell is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist working across installation, sculpture, performance and moving image. Interested in the spatial systems and conceptual infrastructures that are at work behind everyday life, they are particularly drawn to moments at which bodies intersect or are in friction with these. Their current research is investigating the global cut-flower trade.
Molly has a BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture) from Glasgow School of Art.
Nicky May Bolland is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Perthshire. She combines sculptural materials and print-making techniques in novel ways. Nicky’s work is concerned with relationships and entanglements: inter-species, inter-generational, inter-cultural. She is curious about how we relate to our worlds and each other: how can our interactions disrupt and re-imagine the stories we tell?
