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



Jonathan Claxton
Biography
Jonathan is a self-taught artist based in Aberdeen, specialising in land art. He joined us in 2001 for his project, GroundWord
Projects
Jonathan Claxton


Ju Scott
Biography
Ju’s practice spans object making, sound production, DJing, movement, writing and teaching and is informed by practising, studying and creating access to herbalism and bodywork. They often work collaboratively to create supportive collective e
Projects
Ju Scott


Julia Douglas
Biography
Julia Douglas, originally from Edinburgh, is a textile artist interested in domesticity. She was artist in residence with Deveron Projects duri…
Projects
Julia Douglas


Katie Rose Johnston
Biography
Visual artist and ceramist Katie Rose Johnston, originally from Huntly and a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art, worked with our residents to deve…
Projects
Katie Rose Johnston


Kawther Luay
Biography
Kawther Luay is a chef and budding forager. Her work showcases cross-disciplinary practices that touch on migration and belonging by merging local produce and wild food with non-native culinary traditions. Kawther began working with Deveron Projects…
Projects
Kawther Luay


Kenny Hunter
Biography
Kenny Hunter came to Huntly from Glasgow in 2005. He was commissioned by Deveron Projects to produce a memorial sculpture for Huntly-born writer
Projects
Kenny Hunter


Kevo Stero
Biography
Kevo Stero is a visual artist from Kibera, who was in residence with Deveron Projects in summer 2022. He started as a street artist doing signage for shops in Kibera, going onto join Maasai Mbili, and creating pubic art projects that showc…
Projects
Kevo Stero


Lauren Campbell
Biography
Lauren is a young art worker originally from Bristol who came to Huntly first as an intern after finishing her art history degree at Glasgow University. As part of the Year of the Young People scheme she followed a 3 month research period by loca…
Projects
Lauren Campbell


Leàn Coetzer
Biography
Leàn Coetzer is a dancer and choreographer who came from Pretoria, South Africa, with her husband Jacques and children Jan and Juliana. Leàn came for 5 months during spring 2008 to carry out her project, Maypole.
Projects
Leàn Coetzer


Leena Nammari
Biography
Leena Nammari is a photographer originally from Palestine, who studied in Dundee, and stayed with us for seven months during 2002.
Projects
Leena Nammari


Liberatha Alibalio
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 se…
Projects
Liberatha Alibalio


Lindy Young
Biography
Lindy is an enthusiastic gardener with a particular interest in the therapeutic benefits of gardening alongside the health benefits of growing for food. She has studied with the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) but has also spent much of her career c…
Projects
Lindy Young


Lizabett Russo
Biography
Originally from BraÈov in Romania, Lizabett is a Scotland-based singer-songwriter, whose work merges her native traditions with elements of contemporary jazz, avant-garde folk and world music. She stayed with us with her husband and music partner G…
Projects
Lizabett Russo


Maider López
Biography
Maider López came to Huntly from the Basque Country, Spain, for a three-month residency in the autumn of 2010. Her project, How…
Projects
Maider López


Manaf Halbouni
Biography
Manaf Halbouni is a German-Syrian artist based in Dresden and began his three-month residency in Huntly in March 2017. His art deals with socio-geo-political topics. He is working with Deve…