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 video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words people use.     Flick Monk is a Community and Public Energy Campaigner at Platform. Currently based in Glasgow, she mostly grew up in rural Galloway. She previously worked at Friends of the Earth Scotland on fracking and divestment. She has an MSc in Environmental Studies from Antioch University in New Hampshire where she researched community energy.      Giulia Gregnanin is the Curator and Director of Timespan, Helmsdale. Her research interests intertwine decolonial perspectives with ecological discourses and feminist theories, particularly converging on counter-narratives of collective resistance.

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-like objects, and large-scale public art commissions alongside a sustained history of working within community engagement initiatives.”

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 in Johannesburg, South Africa.