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Congratulations to CAP2 Artist Beth Primrose on being selected to join the Scotland + Venice Professional Cohort 2026. Beth is already attending training opportunities and will be heading to Venice in June for 4 weeks to help look after and advocate for Scotland + Venice’s presentation by Bugarin + Castle at the 61st Venice Biennale.

Scotland + Venice’s Professional Development Programme will feature paid opportunities for 17 early career visual arts professionals to spend time at La Biennale di Venezia.

Alongside their work engaging with visitors to Bugarin + Castle’s exhibition Shame Parade, the participants are also given time to dedicate to academic or practice based research.

Outer Spaces are partnering with Scotland + Venice to offer three early career visual artists from their networks a 10-week paid residency as Senior Exhibition Associates. The three selected from Outer Spaces studio network are: Lily Lavorato, Calum Rennie and Jj Fadaka.

For Exhibition Associates, two artists who are based on the Isle of Bute have also been selected in a partnership with The Bute Family Trust, they are: Annabelle Crowner and Ellie Chisholm. Partnering again with a-n will bring Joshua Al-Najar, Kyle Leeson and Laura McSorley to Venice.

Scotland + Venice are again partnering with higher education institutions across Scotland, the nine selected Exhibition Associates are: Samuel Riddy (GSA), Beth Primrose (ECC), Olivia Runciman (DJCAD), Harry Scott (DJCAD), Elinor Hellett (GSA), Bess Schofield (ECA), Maya Walton (CGC) and Mieke Shaw (ECA).

Partners in full for this programme: a-n, City of Glasgow College, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Edinburgh College, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Grays School of Art, Outer Spaces and The Bute Family Trust with Mount Stuart Trust.

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Check out the latest post on CAPtureART Magazine by Beth Primrose. It's a review of 'Instalments' at Inlgeby Gallery.

INSTALMENTS featuring Charlene Scott at The Ingleby Gallery: A Meditation on Time and Place fold 16 2024, Image courtesy of artist and Ingleby gallery. Charlene Scott’s wish for her work is that it “can act as a little breathing space for whoever comes upon it”. Away from the clamour of E…