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Meet the Artists
Aimee Kent - June
Practice: Textiles/Installation
Aimee Elizabeth Kent is a Scotland-based multidisciplinary surface pattern and textile designer, specializing in sustainable print design for interiors, fashion, and lifestyle products. A Glasgow School of Art graduate, she combines hand-crafted and digital techniques inspired by nature and traditional processes. With over fifteen years of experience, Aimee has collaborated with notable organizations and her work has been featured in publications like British Vogue and ELLE, showcased at international fashion weeks.
Her current focus is on interior textiles and home décor, emphasizing traditional techniques in modern design. Aimee is committed to sustainable design and also teaches workshops on surface pattern and textile design. For the Blank Canvas residency, her project "Pattern Drenched: MAKE a 2026 Interior" involves collaborative workshops on sustainable interior design, using natural food dyes and eco-friendly inks to transform the MAKE studio into an immersive patterned space.
Instagram: @aimeeekent & @patterndrenched
Twitter/X: @AimeeEKent
Website: aimeekent.com
Coming soon: patterndrenched.com
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Amy Grogan - August
Practice: Sculpture/Installation
Amy Kim Grogan is a Scottish sculptor who graduated with Distinction from the MFA programme at the Glasgow School of Art in 2022. Prior to undertaking her MFA, she completed a BA (Hons) in Sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art in 2017. Her work regularly stems from disrupting and/or emphasising overlooked objects and acts, arising from a fundamental interest or occasional discomfort. Through increased scale, multiples, and material, she relays this curiosity in works that collectively exert absurdity and often humour.
Instagram: @amykimgrogan
Website: amykgrogan.com
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Christina Riley - July
Practice - Photography/Food/Riso
Christina Riley is a Florida born, Ayrshire based photographer and author of Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves (Saraband, 2025) and The Beach Today (Guillemot Press, 2021). Drawn to the book form as a way of blending visual and written elements of her work, this influence of books and reading led her in 2019 to start The Nature Library, exploring the role of literature in times of climate crisis through library installations, artist’s books, public workshops and collaborative exhibitions. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and as a writer she was longlisted for Canongate's Nan Shepherd Prize for Underrepresented Voices in Nature Writing and had essays published by Gutter, Extra Teeth, Little Toller and more. In 2026 she was an artist-in-residence with The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action to consider how acts of care for communities, from libraries to our natural landscape, intersect and evolve.
Instagram: @christinamriley
Website: christinariley.co.uk
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Finni Chambers - September
Practice: Immersive installation/Interiors & 5 Senses
Finni Porter Chambers (she/her) works at the intersection of community, wellbeing and design. Through playful, co-designed processes, her practice explores how the senses (sight, touch, sound, smell and taste) can connect people more deeply to place through non-verbal and playful methods.
As founder of Josafinni Studio, Finni explores how spatial design can support communities, mental health, disability, neurodivergence, children and young people through imaginative and participatory approaches.
Finni is currently working with V&A Dundee on a co-design project with adults with learning disabilities, in collaboration with Museum Transformers and the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities. Recent projects include co-designing interiors for SAMH’s The Nook with Anna Campbell-Jones.
Other community-led commissions include work with Sustrans, Renfrewshire Council and DesignHOPES at the University of Strathclyde.
Alongside her practice, Finni sits on the board of Architecture Fringe, advising on accessibility and inclusion. She has also been awarded a residency with the Royal Designers for Industry and was shortlisted for the Scottish Design Awards 2026.
Instagram: @josafinni
Website: josafinnistudio.uk
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Velvet Ramos - October
Practice: Food/Performance/Visual Arts
Velvet Zoé Ramos (b.1988, Tulsa OK.USA) is an interdisciplinary Visual Artist living and working in Aruba. Her work focuses on how we relate to one another and ourselves by exploring human mechanisms such as empathy, memory, and constructions of narratives. Ramos uses a wide range of techniques, from printmaking to video works and touches on themes like social and economic imbalance, human mobility (migration) representation and nostalgia.
Ramos graduated in 2011 with a BA Honors in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins, London UK. Ramos has participated in several exhibitions as well as site-specific and community projects. She represented Aruba in a group show at the Mykonos Biennale 2021 and is selected for the 19th Asian Biennale , Bangladesh in 2022.
Instagram: @artvelvetzr
Website: velvetzoeramos.com
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Andrew Paterson - November
Practice: A/V Sound/Food Ecology
Self-styled 'artist-organiser', cultural producer, curator, educator, archivist and independent-interdependent researcher; Specialized in exploring connections between art, digital culture, science, cultural activism related to the commons, DIY/Do-It-With-Others, ecological and sustainability movements, along with cultural heritage and collaborative networks. Originally from Scotland, Andrew Gryf Paterson has an international practice of over 25 years, based in the Baltic Sea Region, most often in Helsinki, Finland. They (Eisenia fetida & Paterson) have been vermi-composting together now for a decade! 'VJ Clew' made their debut in November 2025.
Commons-oriented materials more or less archived here: http://agryfp.info
Instagram: @agryfp