Artists

At Deveron Projects, we’ve worked with over 150 artists over the last 28 years through commissions and residencies. Below you can browse the work of all our current and past resident artists, including links to their project.
Artists in residence


Biography
Social architects and designers Ester Gisbert Alemany and Alfonso M. Cuadrado come from Alicante, Spain, where they have established ‘The Common People’s Architect Office’. Through this, they offer an affordable design service for those that would normally choose to not hire an architect. ‘Drassana’ have now brought the tools of their people orientated approach to Huntly, to participate in the remaking of the former ‘Square Deal’ shop and residencies.
Projects
Drassana


Petra Pennington
An artist and performer
Biography
Petra Pennington is an artist and performer who lives near Huntly. She worked with Deveron Projects as our Art & Community Worker from 2018-20, facilitating interactions and events around the projects of our visiting artists and curating the Home programme of local events, until the birth of her son. As an artist she is working with Huntly’s communities again, questioning how we consider and communicate time in her project In the Wink of a Daisy.
Projects
Petra Pennington


Liberatha Alibalio
A multi-disciplinary artist
Biography
Liberatha Alibalio is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work is driven by research, prioritising the exploration of materials and techniques in the development of new work and often working with textiles, performance, and video. She is inspired by self-knowledge including memory and history, and how it informs the consciousness and contemporary narratives. Her work is storytelling, re-learning and tracing patterns of self, nature, spirit and materiality through art making, embodying her connection to places and traditional cultural practices as research and making.
Liberatha has participated in exhibitions and residencies nationally and internationally including East Africa Art Biennale (2019), Nafasi Art Space (Tanzania) (2021), Modzi Arts (Zambia). She was part of the second edition of Congo Biennial (DRC) (2022), nominated for the Henrike Gross Art Award (2022) and a participant in the 2022 Asiko Art School with CCA Lagos (Nigeria).
Projects
Liberatha Alibalio
past project Artists



Aidan O'Rourke
Biography
Renowned Scottish fiddler Aidan O’Rourke worked with us in 2015. He created a new suite of music reflecting issues around landownership and access TEST CONTENT
Projects
Aidan O’Rourke


Alan Macpherson
Biography
Alan Macpherson lives in Huntly and was in residence during summer 2012. Alan is currently researching a PHD in visual culture at the Univeristy of Aberdeen.
Projects
Alan Macpherson


Alec Finlay
Biography
Edinburgh based artist, and poet, Alec Finlay worked with us in 2013/14 on the Hielan’ Ways project. Much of …
Projects
Alec Finlay
Allysson Velez
Biography
In autumn 2012 we worked with percussionist Mestre Allysson Velez, who joined us from Recife in the North East of Brazil.
Projects
Allysson Velez


Amy Fung
Biography
Amy Fung is an Art Critic and writer from Edmonton in Canada. She joined us for six months in the summer of 2011 for her project Huntly Review.
Projects
Amy Fung


Andrea Chappell
Andrea Chappell


Andrea Geile
Biography
Andrea Geile, a German artist based in Edinburgh, spent some time with us in 2016/17 to research her project ‘Energised Landscape’ for the Slow Marathon 2017. In August 2015, And…
Projects
Andrea Geile


Anne Murray
Biography
Anne Murray is a ceramics artist, who lives in Huntly. Between winter 2012 and summer 2013, Anne walked the River Deveron ‘against the flow’, from source to sea; carrying with her everything she needed to observe, record and m…
Projects
Anne Murray

Annie Runkel
Biography
Annie Runkel is a Glasgow-based artist and poet. She joined Deveron Projects for a three-month residency in summer 2021. Annie works in traditional page-based poetic writing as well as sound and digital media. Since 2018 sh…
Projects
Annie Runkel


Anthony Schrag
Biography
Anthony Schrag is a Canadian artist based in Edinburgh, who stayed with us in the summer of 2011 to investigate the role of fathers in t…
Projects
Anthony Schrag
Aya Haidar
Biography
A British-Lebanese artist based in London, Aya came to Huntly in 2017 to address the town’s food culture in collaboration with the newly arrived Syrian New Scots that were settling…
Projects
Aya Haidar


Ayọ̀ Akínwándé
Biography
Ayá » Akínwándé is a visual artist and writer. His ongoing project “Archiving the Future” has been developed across Lagos, Montréal, Nairobi and now Huntly….
Projects
Ayọ̀ Akínwándé


Baudouin Mouanda
Biography
Baudouin Mouanda is a photographer based in Brazzaville, the Congo, who travels all over the world to undertake his series of photgraphic works. He stayed with us in winter/spring 2011 to carry out his project SAPE: Swagger.
Projects
Baudouin Mouanda


Ben Macfadyen
Biography
Storyteller Ben Macfadyen joined us in winter 2015/16 to build on the legacy of the White Wood. He responded to the lifespan of the trees, aspiring to create a story t…
Projects
Ben Macfadyen


Bob Pegg
Biography
Bob Pegg came to Huntly from Strathpeffer in Northern Scotland. Bob was Deveron Projects’ first storyteller-in-residence in 2006/7 during the George MacDonald memorial celebrations.