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



Rachel Ashton
Biography
Rachel Ashton is a local artist based in Huntly, she worked alongside Gaza based artist, May Murad on the project Walking Wi…
Projects
Rachel Ashton


Rhynie Woman
Biography
The Rhynie Woman is an artist collective formed by Deborah Beeson and Daisy Williamson, who are based in Rhynie, a small town close to Huntly. The collective create food based events as a way of framing an investigation into local heritage. Their crea…
Projects
Rhynie Woman

Richard Demarco
Biography
Richard Demarco, one of Scotland’s leading art impresarios, joined Deveron Projects for numerous visits since 2009.
70 year…
Projects
Richard Demarco


Rocca Gutteridge
Biography
Rocca Gutteridge, originally from London, has worked on several projects during her time in Huntly, including Walkachat (2011), UK Border Walk (20…
Projects
Rocca Gutteridge


Roderick Buchanan
Biography
Roderick was in residence with Deveron Projects during the 2006 World Cup, developing his ARTCUP project with Nuno Sacramento. Roderick’s work often focuses on what shapes our identity, investigating such things as clans, particularly in relation …
Projects
Roderick Buchanan


Roman Signer
Biography
Swiss artist Roman Signer joined Deveron Projects in September 2011, to develop and screen his new work Transmissions from the River, constructed on Huntly’s River Bogie.
Projects
Roman Signer


Ron Brander
Biography
A local historian who cares greatly for this landscape, its people and stories, Ron Brander has extensively researched and written about the Hielan’ Ways area. His work captures not just the history of a place but is a rumination on…
Projects
Ron Brander


Ross Sinclair
Biography
Glasgow based Ross Sinclair joined us over the summer in 2011 to examine the heritage of Huntly’s Gordon clan through a contemporary lens.
Projects
Ross Sinclair


Sally Garden
Biography
Sally Garden is a mezzo-soprano and musicologist born in Angus. She came to collaborate with Emily White on the project Center o…
Projects
Sally Garden


Sanaa Gateja
Biography
In Spring 2014, Sanaa Gateja joined us on an artistic pilgrimage from Uganda, hoping to unearth the legacy of Aberdeenshire born explorer, scientist and missionary Alexander MacKay. Sanna is hailed as being the originator of the paper bead,…
Projects
Sanaa Gateja


Senzeni Marasela
Biography
Senzeni Marasela came to Huntly from Johannesburg, South Africa with her daughter Thato in winter 2009. Senzeni likes to insert herself into situations, bringing other people into her work.
Projects
Senzeni Marasela


Shona Donaldson
Biography
Shona Donaldson originally comes from Huntly and is one of Scotland’s leading young tradition bearers. She was in residence in her home town during 2010.
Projects
Shona Donaldson


Simon Preston
Biography
Throughout the autumn of 2012 Simon Preston, a creative food consultant based in Edinburgh, worked with local people to unearth Huntly’s food identity.
Projects
Simon Preston


Simone Kenyon
Biography
London based walking artist Simone Kenyon explored the former trading routes of the Hielan’ Ways during autumn and winter 2013-14.
Projects
Simone Kenyon


Stéfanie Bourne
Biography
Stéfanie Bourne came to Huntly from Brittany, France, in the summer of 2010. Stéfanie’s practice investigates the particularities and habits of communties and individuals, collaborating with them by ‘doing work’ together…