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



Dew Harrison
Biography
Dew Harrison joined us in Huntly during 2006 while she was working as a researcher at Gray’s School of Art. Dew worked as a Professor in Digital Theory, Technology and Practice at the University of Wolverhampton.
Projects
Dew Harrison


Donal Brown
Biography
Donal Brown is a piper and Scottish step dancer originally from Huntly. Since his studies at the RCS, he has gone on to become one of Scotland’s most prominent artists in tradi…
Projects
Donal Brown


Drassana
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 f…
Projects
Drassana


Dudendance Theatre
Biography
Clea Wallis and Paul Rous’ experimental physical theatre company Dudendance has built a reputation in the UK, Europe and South America for combining live performance with filmmaking. They joined us in 2002 for a six months residency and …
Projects
Dudendance Theatre


Duncan McLaren
Biography
Duncan was Deveron Projects’ writer-in-residence during Huntly’s celebrations of George MacDonald’s life and legacy, in 2007.
Projects
Duncan McLaren


Ela Orleans
Biography
Electronic musician, composer and audio-visual artist, Ela Orleans is a celebrated and published artist in the field of electronica and pop. Her albums have received the critics’ choice Dea…
Projects
Ela Orleans


Elsebeth Jørgensen
Biography
Elsebeth Jørgensen comes from Copenhagen and came to Huntly in 2006 to investigate the social history of its former picture house. Elsebeth often works with archives, juxtaposing his…
Projects
Elsebeth Jørgensen


Emily White
Biography
Emily White is a violinist and trombonist based in Gloucestershire who travels and performs all over the world. She stayed with us for four months in 2008. During her stay she met local poet Br…
Projects
Emily White


Eva Merz
Biography
Danish photographer Eva Merz has worked on several projects during her time in Huntly, including Empty Shop / Modern Monument (2003), Country Living (2004) and Space/Retail/Magic (2004).
Projects
Eva Merz


Ewan McClure
Biography
Ewan McClure was Deveron Projects’ first artist in Huntly. He came for two months during the summer of 1997 and took portraits of local residents in his photo-realistic painting style.
Projects
Ewan McClure


Fabiana Galante
Biography
Fabiana Galante is a pianist and composer from Buenos Aires. She was invited to work in Huntly for two months as part of the Halloween contemporary art festival in 2005. During this time she worked on new pieces for violin and piano with fiddle virtuo…
Projects
Fabiana Galante


Fionn Duffy
Biography
Fionn Duffy is an interdisciplinary artist from Glasgow. Reframing cultural, mineral and historic research, she traverses the distance between material origins and current systems of production …
Projects
Fionn Duffy


Gabriele Konsor
Biography
Gabriele Konsor is an artist based in the rural Haveland, Germany. She is currently working on Partnerlook! a year long collaboration between Deveron Projects and Landmade, an arts platform established by Konsor in her home town. Her work looks at tex…
Projects
Gabriele Konsor


Garry Williams
Biography
Glasgow based Garry Williams came to Huntly in the spring of 2008. Garry’s work often involves durational performances attempting to highlight a certain situation or issue, verging on t…
Projects
Garry Williams


Gayle Chong Kwan
Biography
Scottish/Chinese Mauritian artist Gayle Chong Kwan joined us from London during summer 2014, to work with Deans of Huntly S…