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



Gemuce - Pompílio Hilário
Biography
Gemuce came to Huntly from Maputo, Mozambique for a three-month residency in the run up to Christmas in 2009. Gemuce is the co-founding director and coordinator of Muvart, which promotes contemporary art in Mozambique.
Projects
Gemuce – Pompílio Hilário


Gill Russell
Biography
Gill Russell is an artist based in Glenkindie, the heartland of the Hielan’ Ways area. She wor…
Projects
Gill Russell


Hamish Fulton
Biography
Hamish Fulton came from Canterbury and walked across the Cairngorms in Spring 2010, starting from Huntly town square….
Projects
Hamish Fulton


Hanna Tuulikki
Biography
Artist, composer and vocalist Hanna Tuulikki joined us briefly in Summer 2016 and January 2017 to begin research for a new performance project. Exploring places that are encoded within the Sc…
Projects
Hanna Tuulikki


Hans Abbing
Biography
Hans Abbing is a Dutch cultural economist and art writer who was with us in December 2009. During his time in Huntly, he developed his work The …
Projects
Hans Abbing


Hussein Mitha
Biography
Glasgow-based educator and artist Hussein Mitha came to Huntly in March 2022 for a seven-month residency focused on climate justice and education. Hussein’s writing often deals with class, racial capitalism, anti-imperialism an…
Projects
Hussein Mitha


Iman Tajik
Biography
Iman Tajik is a Glasgow-based artist originally from Iran. He has been working with us over spring and summer 2020 on Bordered Miles, and now on our current project, Under One Sky. This is a global, collaborative reimagining of our annual Slow Ma…
Projects
Iman Tajik

In The Shadow of the Hand (Virginia Hutchison and Sarah Forrest)
Biography
In the Shadow of the Hand is an ongoing collaborative project that brings into conversation the artistic practices of Sarah Forrest and
Projects
In The Shadow of the Hand (Virginia Hutchison and Sarah Forrest)


Irineu Destourelles
Biography
Irineu Destourelles is an Glasgow-based visual artist. Irineu’s practice lies in moving-image, writing, drawing and painting, revolving around treatment of identity, experiences o…
Projects
Irineu Destourelles


Jacqueline Donachie
Biography
Jacqueline Donachie came to Huntly from Glasgow with her husband Roderick Buchanan and sons Archie, Duncan and James in the summer of 2009. &n…
Projects
Jacqueline Donachie


Jacques Coetzer
Biography
Jacques Coetzer first came to Huntly from South Africa in spring/summer 2008 to develop a brand for Huntly. He was joined by his wif…
Projects
Jacques Coetzer


Jake Williams
Biography
Jake Williams is a musician who lives at Bogenclogh in the Clashindarroch Forest. He walked the River Deveron from source to sea, with the flow in winter 2013. Anne Murra…
Projects
Jake Williams


Januario Jano
Biography
Januario Jano came to Huntly in July 2022 for a two-moth residency. A Goldsmiths University graduate, Januario is an interdisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, video, photography, textile, sound installations, and performance, with his pra…
Projects
Januario Jano

Jelka Plate
Biography
Performance artist Jelka Plate comes from Berlin and stayed with us for three months in the autumn of 2006.
Projects
Jelka Plate


John Kenny & Chris Wheeler
Biography
John Kenny and Chris Wheeler are two versatile musicians, proficient in brass instruments, electronic media, DJing, composition, dance, performance and the carnyx – an ancient wind i…