Scottish Contemporary Art Network

Raised in Edinburgh, Marianne Brown spent many years working as a journalist in Southeast Asia and later in Britain as the editor of an environmental magazine. She now works for a community-owned renewable energy cooperative based in Bristol. She lives in Devon and can often be found running on the moor or gardening with her partner and young daughter. 

A panel on learning from indigenous knowledge and galvanising communities around community power (both literally and metaphorically), with artist-filmmaker Maria de Lima, public energy campaigner Flick Monk, and Timespan Curator/Director Giulia Gregnanin. Bios: Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches vi...

Les Bicknell, Artist in Residence at Sizewell C, a Senior Lecturer on the Textile Design Course at Norwich University of the Arts and a teaching fellow at Kings College, London within the School of Anatomy. “My work is focused on exploring notions of control and power, using systems and iterative thinking to create work. My hybrid, interdisciplinary practice has included intimate hand-held book-li...

Harvey Dimond is a British-Barbadian writer, researcher and sometimes-artist currently working in Spain as a language assistant. Their practices examine queer ecologies and the entangled histories and realities of settler-colonialism and the climate crisis. They have a BA in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and an MA in African Literature from The University of the Witwatersrand...