During February 2024, 7 awards between £500–750 were distributed to assist professional artists, craft makers and designers in their creative development.
Susannah Rose
Jules Mather
Image: Lizzie Rose
Lizzie Rose received support to undertake a two-day tailor-made intensive pigment-making course with London Pigment to further integrate sustainability into Lizzie’s practice by equipping them with the knowledge of how to create botanical dyes and earth, waste streams and lake pigments.
"Thanks to a VACMA, I was enabled to delve into the world of pigment making through a two-day course with London Pigments. It opened my eyes to the potential all around us and into the empathy with place that using found and foraged pigments can offer, and will slowly become part of my practice. I hope to enable a transition to a more caring place." - Lizzie Rose
Mhairi Killin was supported to undertake a period of professional development mentored by Alex Hetherington in 16mm filmmaking to combine her existing practice of drawing and sculpture with film and to examine new ways of seeing, expanding visual vocabulary, to impact her overall work and thinking as an artist. Mhairi’s skills in 16mm filming, expanded through VACMA awards to date, have included outcomes such as a residency at Artica Svalbard, building on Mhairi’s 2024 award and 16mm film work and research into Svalbard & The Hebrides – Island Archipelagoes in the Anthropocene.
"The timing of this support from VACMA was extremely important to the development of my thinking in advance of a residency with Artica Svalbard. Being able to approach this residency with a set of new skills is now contributing to the diversity of artistic outcomes of my time in Svalbard." - Mhairi Killin
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