Maja, Caitlyn and Roos are artists who all have strong connections with Aberdeen through family background, residency, work, and studies.

Caitlyn’s practice uses a variety of tactile materials to explore themes of care and intimacy. Maja’s migrant background and experience of the Bosnian war inform her experiences of working with sound, including oral histories. Roos’ work in nature and interest in botany will inform both indoor and outdoor activities that will engage with seeds, plants, and the natural world.

Claudia Zeiske is a curator and cultural activist who combines her experience in social engagement with her walking art practice.

She was the founding Director of Deveron Projects where the ‘town is the venue’ rather than a gallery or arts centre. Coming from Social Anthropology, she has worked here with over 100 artists from all over the world on co-curated projects of community concern; developing a unique curatorial practice based on a balanced approach between artistic criticality and community involvement.

Abbey Craig is a freelance creative arts practitioner with a deep-rooted belief in caring communities that can help to enable every person.

Lily Garget is a visual artist based in Angus. Lily has created work about landscape, time, and self through naturally dyed textiles and self-published zines.

Lateral North was co-founded in 2013 by directors Graham Hogg and Tom Smith. The practice emerged from their joint architectural masters project on ‘Uncertain Futures’ which explored Scotland and its relationship to the north.

Lateral North offered a narrative which asked people to rethink Scotland’s position, proposing ‘New Northern Frontiers’, asking how the country, its communities and people could proactively engage with, learn from and connect to northern neighbours.

Angela is a Sculptor by trade, and understands the power of creativity to communicate, to connect and to heal.

Angela founded Resonate Together in 2010 focused on inclusion, building trust and equality, and utilising the creative process to bring community together. Resonate Together believes that creating a kind, safe and positive environment enables individuals to deeply connect within themselves, and across our diverse community.

dr t s Beall is a socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Dumfries and Glasgow, working with diverse communities on durational artworks which aim to recover and celebrate underknown histories.

Katie Anderson is a public artist, working across sculpture, installation, sound, lettering, and participatory practice based from her home and studio near Annan. Her practice as an artist is about establishing projects alongside, and as part of, communities – creating work that has its foundations in a sense of place.

Around Zero is a Social Innovation and Environment centred design firm building a positive future for the people and the planet. Using design innovation methodologies to develop planet-centric strategies to improve human and non-human species relationships.

The team behind this initiative is driven by their passion for working in social innovation and environmental impact and making a difference through design.

Paul is a singer-songwriter based in Ayrshire (The Sundancer) and for the last ten years he has run Rock ‘n’ Role Models where they inspire people of all ages to be creative through songwriting. Working with schools, in communities and with businesses to unlock the creative potential that is within each one of us.

Eileen has been making short documentaries for East Ayrshire from the very start of her career in film making. She has created films to support and evidence many projects within the Ayrshire community, in particular within schools in both South & East Ayrshire and loves to engage people in conversations.

Elena Mary Harris is a participatory artist and facilitator delivering projects across the central belt of Scotland. Working in arts, education, health and social care settings, advocacy sits at the core of how Elena envisions and designs creative projects. She wants to create spaces where people, that often go unheard, will be listened to and encouraged to speak up in audiences they may not otherwise have access to. Recent projects have included partnerships with Edinburgh Young Carers, The British Museum, Luminate, Erskine Care Homes, AIMS Advocacy, Includem, National Library of Scotland and Art in Healthcare.

Barbara Gardner-Rowell is a socially engaged artist, living in East Lothian. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA Combined Studies, Art & Design in 2014, she developed a collaborative practice working across textiles, installation, sound and performance to explore narratives of identity. She recently completed the MA Art and Social Practice with University of Highlands and Islands, where she engaged in participatory research on lived experiences, narrative analysis and listening as a transformative practice.

Donna is a socially engaged artist, creating a distinctive mix of documentary; personal storytelling; humour; psychology and folklore alongside social and political history. Producing theatre and video work since 1990, she crosses the roles of writer, performer, video maker and director.

Her work manages to make difficult subjects such as displacement, family relations, ageing, and miscommunication in relationships, accessible to a wide audience while developing innovative forms of personal storytelling.

Skye Loneragan is a writer/performer and poet whose current theatre piece, Though This Be Madness is touring to the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Skye has worked extensively within arts and non-arts contexts and across ages and artforms, particularly interested in how curiosity can function as a kind of currency, both in terms of value and exchange.

Caspar J Wilson is a community artist with many years experience delivering socially engaged projects across Scotland. He has an interdisciplinary skillset that encompasses graphic design, public art, photography and illustration. Most recently Studio Caspar has been working with Creative Informatics and the University of Edinburgh on several projects combining audience engagement with data analytics. Past clients include Sustrans, Paths For All, Living Streets, Transport Scotland, NHS Scotland and many Local Authorities including Glasgow City, Falkirk, Aberdeen City, Moray and Fife.

Katie walks Fife’s coast daily foraging for sea worn treasures, finding clues to untold aspects of our social, cultural history. This coastline provides a rich source of stories which help define our place in the world, inspiring a commitment to environment and community. She has a strong interest in alternative ‘green’ photography and a honed ability to foster creativity in others. She supports holistic learning, engaging wider audiences and cultivating a deeper sense of place. She believes we can all benefit from realising that the past can inform our response to present day challenges, which is what Remembering Together is all about.

Audrey O’Brien is an Irish-born artist based in Glasgow.

She works in Arts and Health across collage, sculpture, photography and curated events.

She is working in collaboration with Mhari Baxter and Kath Pierce.

Cat Meighan is a socially engaged contemporary art practitioner and producer, whose practice looks to the expanded field of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation.

Hector MacInnes is a sound artist, musician and producer from the Isle of Skye on the west coast of Scotland. He works with installation, text, composition, radio and speculative design among other things, often in collaboration with other artists and with communities.

Sinéad Hargan is a multi-disciplinary artist working with live performance, participatory performance, sound, and film. Sinéad’s work is often centred around acts of collective grieving.

RIG Arts is a socially engaged arts charity based in Inverclyde that brings professional artists and the community together in collaborative and creative ways. They are working with 3 artists to deliver phase 1.

Carolan McPherson is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Seamus Killick is an artist and art therapist in training and Samantha Macgregor is a visual artist and arts psychotherapist.

Yvonne is a visual artist with a socially-engaged placemaking practice. She explores her experience of place through participation in her own work both as an artist and as a member of the community. Yvonne’s artwork is centred on the heritage, history, geology and communities of Midlothian, where she has very strong family and work connections.

She graduated from Gray’s School of Art with a BA (Hons) Painting. She is currently a Committee Member of Gorgie Collective and Creative Fieldworker for the People’s Parish, Mayfield and Easthouses. Yvonne is also a contributing artist on Edinburgh's first Street Art Sculpture Trail.

Caroline Inckle is a visual artist and design researcher based in the North East of Scotland. Her practice centres on exploring a material relationship with the natural world through image making, installation and sculpture as well as participatory events.

Graeme Roger is a visual artist working across film, public art, performance, photography, installation & theatre. All his projects are collaborative in nature with other artists, musicians, directors and the wider community.

Robbie Thomson is an artist and educator working between the fields of visual art, music and theatre, based in Arnol on the Isle of Lewis. Robbie's interests include the interplay of technology and consciousness, cybernetics, industrial landscapes and megalithic sites. Past works include music made with a high voltage Tesla coil and a large scale robotic installation in Glasgow’s Clyde Tunnel.

Robbie was a founding director of independent arts venue and studios, the Glue Factory, in Glasgow, and he is an associate artist with production house Cryptic. He is an arts worker with An Lanntair in Stornoway and leads, Clàr – a programme which develops digital creativity for 14-25 year olds.

ice cream architecture works with communities and the public sector to make places and services better.

Their multi-disciplinary team can create reactive solutions that boost regeneration, enterprise, community involvement and collaboration, communication, youth engagement, active travel, funding potential and digital participation; each with the core aim to motivate and mobilise civic pride.

John Martin Fulton is an award-winning painter who trained at Glasgow School of Art and exhibits throughout Scotland. As well as creating his own painting, John Martin shares the joy of making art with community groups of all types.

Russell McGovern is a Glasgow based artists specialising in public art, sculpture and installation. With over 15 years experience working in the visual arts and creative sector, Russell has also recently completed a Master degree in Sculpture at the Glasgow School of Arts, graduating with distinction.

Emma Ainsley (video, sound and performance artist) and John Phillips (musician and composer) have been working collaboratively to deliver co-creative projects into care and community settings since 2018. They take an improvisatory ‘jamming’ approach to working alongside people and are driven by a desire to explore and extend connection and communication beyond chat, through a shared creative space. Sessions are focused on sharing an in-the-moment creative experience, with ways for everyone to join in.

Taylor is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with an acute interest in local culture and heritage. She has worked across several cultural organisations including the Scottish Crannog Centre, Perth Theatre and Perth Museum & Art Gallery developing community-based projects that creatively address social history. In 2021, Taylor founded Perth’s Women – an organisation that strives to better represent women’s history across Perth & Kinross. With a passion for writing and performance, Taylor implements local traditions, language, and lore into her work to ensure the identity of her community is represented at every stage.

Phil (she/her) is a socially engaged visual artist and theatre director. With participation at the core of her work, she creates hybrid multimedia public art. Her creative practice has punk roots and is positive protest, curious and challenging, it brings people together, shares stories and strives towards positive change.

She is working alongside Associate Artist, writer and theatre maker, Karen Herbison (H-arts) and theatre maker, Craig McCulloch Andrew.

Two Destination Language is led by Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie. They make work about identity, celebrating difference to help stimulate dialogue between communities. They have made exhibitions, walks, theatre and dance, books and films, which have toured nationally and internationally, from rural venues to the V&A Museum and from Azerbaijan to the USA. Some of their work is made in collaboration with professional artists, and some with people in communities around Britain. They also support artists with residencies and professional development.

Christina Inkster is a local Artist and Support Worker, born and raised in the Shetland Isles. She studied Fine Art at the University of Dundee and has over 5 years experience of co-creating with communities locally, nationally and internationally. She has worked with: Shetland Arts, Creative Scotland and The Scottish Government; and has exhibited in: Shetland, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.

Christina Inkster has an inherent caring disposition which she uses to support others, nurturing creativity and empowering the self.

Catrin is an artist, researcher and educator who specialises in engagement and participation using a rights and relationship-based approach. At the heart of her practice is the idea that different ways of knowing, being and doing should be valued. Catrin has 14 years’ experience of working collaboratively using making, playing and listening as a means to co-construct, empower and drive social action. Catrin is co-founder and producer of child and young person-led artist collective Rumpus Room.

Graduating from Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art Program in 2017, Kathryn has undertaken several community and public engagement projects with organisations such as arts institutions, prisons, local authorities and charities. Kathryn has been awarded commissions such as ‘Pathways’, a public artwork to give recognition to key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, commissioned by South Ayrshire Council. Kathryn works from her studio in Blantyre and creates sculptures, installations and text-based work. She use material processes such as willow weaving, woodwork, casting, laser cutting, stone masonry and letter cutting.

Saffy is a socially engaged dance artist living in Glasgow, with 15 years of experience working in different contexts across choreography, interdisciplinary performance, participatory practices, movement direction, facilitation, community and network building, activism, research, mentoring, and amplification of other creative voices. She believes deeply in the ability of art to invite personal and social transformation. At the heart of her work is an ethos of listening, collaboration and experimentation. Her practice is tactile, place-responsive, and draws together influences from sensory and somatic (mind-body connection) work, improvisation, walking, writing, visual media, sound art and recently, gardening. Her artistic interests circle around exploring ecological practices, our connection to our environment and each other, and increasingly notions of regeneration and care.

Hydra Arts and Clifftop Projects are two arts organisations based in West Dunbartonshire. Working across art forms their community centered practices tailor specific projects to the needs and wants of the people they work with while still retaining an ambition and drive as professional artists. From regular art classes for young people in Dumbarton West and an Intergenerational Dance Company, to ceramics workshops and fully staged village pantomimes, their collective works combine professional and international arts experience with hyper-local practice.

For the past 10 years, Bespoke Atelier have been blending the worlds of art and architecture, inventing unique patterns to enhance interiors, products and buildings. Founders Marion Parola and Yvonne Elliott-Kellighan’s passion for bold graphic prints and a playful curiosity of materials are the foundations of the studio. The beginning of all of their public projects stems from community consultations. Their team work with the general public, community groups, schools, care homes to cite a few and the client team to understand better their needs and aspirations. These collaborations result in tailor made artworks, conveying the mood and feeling of a place.