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Articulation is a network of people and organisations working across areas of Outdoor Arts, Circus and Spectacle in Scotland. Explore our current members or find out more about how you can get involved.

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Adam Wright

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance

Aerial artist, acrobat, coach and maker. Special interest in works exploring queerness, gender and neurodiversity.
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Adam Wright

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance

Performer

Aerial artist, acrobat, coach and maker. Special interest in works exploring queerness, gender and neurodiversity.

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Ruxy Cantir

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Physical Performance

Ruxy Cantir is a Moldova-born, US-trained, Glasgow-based physical theatre maker and performer. A Dell’arte International graduate (Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre), she devises and performs original work for all ages,…
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Ruxy Cantir

Individual • Glasgow • Physical Performance

Performer

Ruxy Cantir is a Moldova-born, US-trained, Glasgow-based physical theatre maker and performer. A Dell’arte International graduate (Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre), she devises and performs original work for all ages, ranging from spectacle-based outdoor theatre to intimate indoor work using contemporary devising practices, Puppetry, Clown and Physical and Visual Theatre. Since moving to Scotland in 2015, she’s been awarded numerous grants to develop new indoor and outdoor work, including the 2021 APA/Eden Court/Capital Theatres Early Years Christmas Performance Commission, the Inaugural SURGE Street Theatre Bursary, the Clown Cabaret Bursary Award and the ScotRail Foundation/Foundation Scotland Cultural Arts Grant.

She’s worked with some of Scotland’s most notable arts organisations, including the National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, Scottish Youth Theatre, National Trust for Scotland. A recent CATS award nominee, she’s performed in various events and festivals with SURGE, Imaginate, Clown Cabaret Scratch Night, Tron Theatre, manipulate Festival, on STV’s only late night talk show The Late Show, and toured Scotland with a few shows, including her critically-acclaimed solo piece Pickled Republic.

She is a member of Single End Collective, an artist-run space in Southside Studios, Glasgow, co-founded LARDS Ensemble – a collective of Scotland’s five most prominent physical comedians, and is a board member for Articulation and Manipulate Arts.

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Lizzie Clapham

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Circus performer, based near Glasgow. Working in acrobatics, juggling, puppetry and physical theatre. Member of Ludic Acid, a micro company working in street theatre and walk about. I have trained in dance (HNC) and circus…
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Lizzie Clapham

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

Circus performer, based near Glasgow. Working in acrobatics, juggling, puppetry and physical theatre. Member of Ludic Acid, a micro company working in street theatre and walk about.
I have trained in dance (HNC) and circus (BA) which I work to combine in my practice. Alongside my performance work I work as a stage manager for cabaret and events.

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Adrenalism

Producing Company

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Adrenalism is a theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland but make work for everywhere. Our projects are entertaining, accessible and connected to the world we all live in. We believe that the best performances happen…
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Adrenalism

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producing Company

Adrenalism is a theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland but make work for everywhere.

Our projects are entertaining, accessible and connected to the world we all live in.

We believe that the best performances happen with diverse audiences in unexpected places and in unexpected ways.

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Autin Dance Theatre

Producing Company

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Autin Dance Theatre is a collaborative ensemble of creatives who devise & produce aspirational, socially engaged & mass participatory movement projects regionally & internationally. Autin Dance Theatre’s distinctive artistic voice draws on contemporary social issues…
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Autin Dance Theatre

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producing Company

Autin Dance Theatre is a collaborative ensemble of creatives who devise & produce aspirational, socially engaged & mass participatory movement projects regionally & internationally. Autin Dance Theatre’s distinctive artistic voice draws on contemporary social issues (environment, community, relationships & identities) to make engaging, accessible, relevant performance work.

We aim to inspire, educate & instigate positive social change through highly responsive, multi-disciplinary art in theatres, outdoors & non-traditional spaces.

Our work ranges from extensive touring of our sensational outdoor show featuring a 13ft-tall puppet at international festivals to publishing children’s books about saving the ocean. We thrieve in a vareity of formats that include, static, walkabout, festivals, schools, libraries and unusal spaces.

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Julia McGhee

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Highland • Dance, Physical Performance

I am an artist who works across choreography, performance and participatory practice. I am interested in working with movement, the body, objects and materials that can reflect elements of the environment, history and people I…
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Julia McGhee

Individual • Highland • Dance, Physical Performance

Artist-Designer-Maker

I am an artist who works across choreography, performance and participatory practice. I am interested in working with movement, the body, objects and materials that can reflect elements of the environment, history and people I see around me. My practice involves experiencing landscape through walking and wild swimming, gathering video and audio material, as well as found objects, stories and history from people locally. I am based in the Highlands and I collaborate with other artists from interdisciplinary fields to create live indoor and outdoor performance, digital/multi-media projects and community engagement events.

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Hannah Ayre

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Edinburgh • Installation, Light Art, Other

Light Artist & Participatory Artist Hannah Ayre specialises in producing socially engaged projects and events that resonate with diverse audiences, while engaging and uniting people. She partners with arts, environmental and heritage organisations. Together, they…
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Hannah Ayre

Individual • Edinburgh • Installation, Light Art, Other

Artist-Designer-Maker

Light Artist & Participatory Artist

Hannah Ayre specialises in producing socially engaged projects and events that resonate with diverse audiences, while engaging and uniting people. She partners with arts, environmental and heritage organisations. Together, they create immersive experiences, focusing on wellbeing, nature connection and heritage learning. She strives to create fun, accessible projects which empower participants and audiences while creating memories and a lasting legacy.

Her work is often created from fluorescent materials which glow vividly under ultra violet/black light. She designs the work digitally, before bringing it to life in the physical realm. She is fascinated by geometric shapes, colour and the joy her work can bring to audiences during the colder months.

Her work as a light artist has led to commissions for numerous winter light festivals and special events. She works solo and also frequently collaborates with other artists, designers, technicians and communities. She creates site-specific, one-off installations, as well as sculptures which are designed to tour.

She is based in Edinburgh and works locally, nationally and occasionally internationally.

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Chrissie Ardill

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

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Chrissie Ardill

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

Performer

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Jamie Wardrop

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Glasgow • Digital

Jamie is a Glasgow based artist, theatre maker, VJ and designer who tours work nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with some of Scotland’s leading artists and presented his own critically acclaimed original work at…
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Jamie Wardrop

Individual • Glasgow • Digital

Artist-Designer-Maker

Jamie is a Glasgow based artist, theatre maker, VJ and designer who tours work nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with some of Scotland’s leading artists and presented his own critically acclaimed original work at major venues and institutions.

He trained as an actor a the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – graduating in 2009.

He has developed a practice in multiple disciplines, practices and genres – defying easy definition – from the music industry to theatre and dance where his work is frequently in demand. He commonly works with digital mediums like 3D Animation, VR, Lighting, Sound, Composing and Film. He has pioneered the use of live VJ techniques and projection mapping in the live performance.

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All or Nothing

Producing Company

Organisation • Aerial

All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre are Scotland’s leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and developing aerial arts throughout the country. Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, air and the space between,…
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All or Nothing

Organisation • Aerial

Producing Company

All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre are Scotland’s leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and developing aerial arts throughout the country. Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, air and the space between, merging aerial arts with dance theatre and contemporary circus.

With performances ranging from small scale theatre to large scale outdoor spectacle, we tour extensively across Scotland, creating our own theatrical works for touring as well as developing aerial elements for events.
Participation is vital to the company’s work, believing that aerial and dance is for everyone, developing all kinds of opportunities for this to happen. All or Nothing constantly challenge assumptions of who can do aerial, opening up the artform to as many people as possible, developing audiences and participants.

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Sarah Rose Graber

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, performer, and director. She graduated from Northwestern University in the US and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her current shows include Unicorn…
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Sarah Rose Graber

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, performer, and director. She graduated from Northwestern University in the US and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her current shows include Unicorn Dance Party, an interactive dance show led by unicorns; Two in a Barrel, a physical theatre show about the waste we create; and The Refs, a family friendly outdoor show where public spaces are turned into one big game. Graber is a Circumnavigator Scholar having traveled around the world to the US, UK, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina researching theatre for social change. She won a Fulbright award to create devised work across the UK, named “One of 15 Women to Watch” in Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine, and shortlisted for the Amazing Women Awards with No.1 Magazine. Her TEDx talk on her research with Serendipity in creative practice has been featured at several events and at universities and she is currently the lead presenter on the YouTube Series, SCOPE, with Imagine Learning. In the UK, she has also worked with Surge, the National Theatre of Scotland, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Manipulate Arts, Fuel, Tron, the LIFT festival, Scottish Youth Theatre, Imaginate, Starcatchers, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is Artistic Director of Performance Collective, creating original work and supporting emerging artists across the Dumfries and Galloway region.

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Shirley Moore

Performer

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Street Theatre

Community circus, mental health and wellbeing, community teaching/performing
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Shirley Moore

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Street Theatre

Performer

Community circus, mental health and wellbeing, community teaching/performing

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Hannah Wright

Educator

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

I am a freelance aerial and circus teacher in a variety of disciplines including trapeze, silks, and hoop and various circus toy box props including hula hoop and (very simple!) juggling. Occasionally I perform in…
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Hannah Wright

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Educator

I am a freelance aerial and circus teacher in a variety of disciplines including trapeze, silks, and hoop and various circus toy box props including hula hoop and (very simple!) juggling.

Occasionally I perform in circus and physical theatre shows or with walkabout acts. Most recently I have performed at Beamish Halloween Nights as a hanged witch and as a walkabout moth stilts character at a wellbeing festival in Whitehaven. I have also worked with companies to devise full-length circus shows including an environmental show with Matrix Circus that we took to Eden Festival and a retelling of The Odyssey with Let’s Circus that we toured to various venues including Stockton International Riverside Festival.

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Freya Pellie

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Multidisciplinary performance artist and coach, specialising in aerial (hoop, rope, lollipop), and peg stilt dance and walkabout. Performed and taught internationally. Worked with traditional touring circus, contemporary circus, social circus, and events. Board member for…
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Freya Pellie

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

Multidisciplinary performance artist and coach, specialising in aerial (hoop, rope, lollipop), and peg stilt dance and walkabout. Performed and taught internationally. Worked with traditional touring circus, contemporary circus, social circus, and events. Board member for Think Circus SCIO. Co-created and regionally toured a 50-minute outdoor circus theatre show in 2023 and looking to expand upon this.

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Manipulate Arts

Festival

Organisation • Edinburgh • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Digital, Installation, Other, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

The mission of Manipulate Arts is to champion, develop and present brilliant animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally. Formerly known as Puppet Animation Scotland, all of our work is focused around…
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Manipulate Arts

Organisation • Edinburgh • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Digital, Installation, Other, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Festival

The mission of Manipulate Arts is to champion, develop and present brilliant animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.

Formerly known as Puppet Animation Scotland, all of our work is focused around artforms which breathe life into the inanimate or tell stories using primarily images rather than text. Play and manipulation are at the heart of all the work that we champion and support – whether of puppets, objects, digital imagery, or of the human body. We believe that the common thread between these artforms lies in the opportunities they create to discover the latent magic in the everyday, to find common visual languages beyond the reach of words, and to enable play at all stages of our lives.

Our aims are:

To establish Scotland’s reputation, locally, nationally and internationally, as a place where puppetry, visual theatre and animated film are thriving.
To ensure that people all across Scotland have the opportunity to enrich their lives through visually-led performance, film and creativity.
To support a vibrant and empowered artistic community in Scotland, enabling independent artists to thrive in their practice.

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Gerry Flanagan

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Walkabout Street Theatre, small scale touring, community participation projects to create a show, workshops in Clown and related subjects, devising and directing,
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Gerry Flanagan

Individual • Edinburgh • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Performer

Walkabout Street Theatre, small scale touring, community participation projects to create a show, workshops in Clown and related subjects, devising and directing,

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Frodo McDaniel

Producer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally. As a Producer, he has led projects…
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Frodo McDaniel

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Producer

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally.

As a Producer, he has led projects all over the world from intimate cabarets to big top spectaculars and massive festivals. He has produced touring theatre and circus, nightclubs, awards ceremonies, charity spectaculars, and corporate events. For 3 years, he programmed and managed The Cabaret Tent for Scotland’s largest music festival, T in the Park and was General Manager of Scotland’s best small music festival, The Kelburn Garden Party for 5 years.

He is also an experienced performer and compère with a critically-acclaimed career as an actor and singer in musical theatre and various bands, as well as a long and varied resume in circus, clowning, and comedy.

As an established playwright, Frodo has written and co-written several plays and is currently creating abridged adaptations of the works of Shakespeare as part of his Bard Abridged series which are availble on Amazon.

As a person with a ‘hidden’ disability, Frodo champions inclusivity and access to all aspects of the Arts in his projects and is always delighted to work with LGBTQIA+ artsts and those who may face barriers to participation in the arts due to cultural background, race, or physical ability.

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Story Wagon

Producing Company

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Touring Story Sanctuary , a space for everybody’s stories. Making a place for writing and storytelling in outdoor public spaces.
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Story Wagon

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Producing Company

Touring Story Sanctuary , a space for everybody’s stories. Making a place for writing and storytelling in outdoor public spaces.

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Adam Towndrow

Producer

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally. The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work. I am passionate…
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Adam Towndrow

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producer

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally.

The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work.

I am passionate about co-creation and developing work to provide audiences and partipants with lasting and unforgetable experiences.

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Riff Raff Producing CIC

Producing Company

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation. As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their…
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Riff Raff Producing CIC

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

Producing Company

Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation. As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their families, believing that if we invest in main caregivers, it has ripple effects.

From the intimate to the spectacular, we create spaces, performances and participatory experiences that celebrate and bring together families and communities in all their forms, with our head-turning, heart-warming, multi-artform projects.

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Jen Kelly

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Digital, Physical Performance, Other

I am a Glasgow based performance artist engaging with autobiography, visual and physical theatre, and storytelling. I use devising as a tool to create work that comments on societal structures. As an emerging artist and…
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Jen Kelly

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Digital, Physical Performance, Other

Performer

I am a Glasgow based performance artist engaging with autobiography, visual and physical theatre, and storytelling. I use devising as a tool to create work that comments on societal structures. As an emerging artist and facilitator, forming relationships with venues and artists is an important part of my practice.

I aim to harness performance to approach difficult topics. I view performance art as a way of approaching stigmas, specifically concerning mental health and societal structures. My practice is about reclaiming space through performance art, conceptualisation and connecting with audiences through emotion. I direct and devise work from various stimuli, including autobiographical content, ideas based from political conversations, devised movement and reimagining well known texts.

I write songs and comedy, which often features in work I make. I am inspired by music and use this as a tool to create visual art and physical theatre communicating a range of ideas and political comments to audiences. I facilitate workshops and participate in performance labs and networking events in the arts community within Glasgow and further afield. I have developed skills in producing and project management over the last few years.

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An Lanntair Arts Centre

Venue

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre

An Lanntair is a hub for creativity and the Arts in the Outer Hebrides. We are a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, a theatre, a cinema,…
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An Lanntair Arts Centre

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre

Venue

An Lanntair is a hub for creativity and the Arts in the Outer Hebrides. We are a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, a theatre, a cinema, a dance studio, a concert hall, a platform for poetry and literature, a studio, youth arts projects and festivals– every space stretched to showcase the Arts in multiple forms. Our work stretches across a national and international platform, yet our distinctiveness lies in being ‘of the place’, rooted in who we are, and the creativity of Gaelic and the Outer Hebrides takes centre stage.

Our mission is “to connect and inspire people in producing extraordinary, creative programmes, uniquely rooted in the place and reflecting the Arts and ideas of our time

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Hamshya Rajkumar

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • North Lanarkshire • Dance, Spoken Word, Other

Hamshya Rajkumar is an inter-disciplinary artus who navigates through embodied movement, intention and ritual. By situating the body outside the constraints of binary structures, she explores our human place in a world where ‘nature’ is…
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Hamshya Rajkumar

Individual • North Lanarkshire • Dance, Spoken Word, Other

Artist-Designer-Maker

Hamshya Rajkumar is an inter-disciplinary artus who navigates through embodied movement, intention and ritual.

By situating the body outside the constraints of binary structures, she explores our human place in a world where ‘nature’ is separate, dominated and objectified.

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Jamie Wardrop

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art

I am a Glasgow-based artist, designer, and technician working nationally and internationally across theatre, music, dance, outdoor events, and visual art projects. Originally I trained as an actor and I now specialise in immersive practices,…
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Jamie Wardrop

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art

Artist-Designer-Maker

I am a Glasgow-based artist, designer, and technician working nationally and internationally across theatre, music, dance, outdoor events, and visual art projects. Originally I trained as an actor and I now specialise in immersive practices, VR, digital design, projection mapping, 3D art, and installation work.

As a VJ and live video artist, I create visual shows for the main stages of festivals such as Creamfields and Riverside Festival, as well as for club nights. I am experienced in complex LED stage design layouts and producing original live visual content for artists such as Lewis Capaldi, Faithless, Basement Jaxx, and Simple Minds.

I also work as a video, lighting, and sound designer for companies including the National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep, and Marc Brew & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. . My work also extends to large-scale projection mapping of buildings such as Paisley Halloween, Articulate Cultural Trust, and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party.

Recently, my personal projects have explored ecological themes, such as Strange Loop, an outdoor immersive installation in collaboration with artist Sita Pieraccini. In this work, participants collect local plants, which are used to create live compositions projected back onto the landscape using digital microscopes. Strange Loop has been performed at Kelburn Festival, Platform in Easterhouse, Galoshins Festival, and Dandelion Festival.

I am currently undertaking a year-long residency with Refractive Paisley (2024/2025), researching how digital art can communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. This includes mentoring local artists and culminating in a projection-mapped outdoor exhibition on Paisley High Street.

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