Sat 29th Aug - Sat 5th Sept 2026

Application Deadline: Sun 01 March 2026

The Group Residency will be lead by Tracy Mackenna (she/her), artist, educator and curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal and facilitated by Tracy and artist Mary Bourne. A range of multidisciplinary Orkney-based discipline experts who hold precious, lived knowledge of how matter and materials act in Orkney will contribute to bespoke programme sessions, sharing their understandings of the relationships between rock, water and soil, people and time, the natural and built environment, creative expression and well-being.
This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, allow you to focus, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies, open vistas and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea. You will get up close to places, matter and materials and ideas, and step back to consider your position in the universe.

The Group Residency will develop approaches to matter and material that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place by paying attention to the intersections and collisions between art, culture, technologies and place. Individual experience will be regarded as being not at the world's centre, but woven into its fabric.

WANDERING ROCKS and EARTHY MATTERS is offered to creative practitioners working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of matter and materials, site and place.

FEE
The Residency Programme is operated on a non-commercial cost-covering basis, and is financially supported by The Museum of Loss and Renewal in order to keep fees low. The residency fee is £1350 GBP, paid by the resident. It includes the residency programme, 5-star self-catering accommodation (single rooms) and work spaces, collection/return to nearest airport/ferry point.