About


I am a Glasgow-based visual artist working with sculpture, performance, and writing.

Rooted in community-led and collective modes of working, my practice engages with Southeast Asian histories and cosmologies, to think about the intersections of home, migrancy and ancestral improvisations.



Recent exhibitions of my work include The Fingers Pulling the Thread at Edinburgh Art Festival 2024 as part of PLATFORM24, and Unravelled Gathering (The Sea, The Rope) at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024), and at Mimosa House, London (2024). 



I was a recipient of the Freelands Artist Programme (2022–24), a 2-year residency programme with the Talbot Rice Gallery at Edinburgh University.

Other residencies I have participated in recently include Scottish Sculpture Workshop Group Residency (2025), Interdisciplinary Artist Residency Programme at Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2024), and the SODAS2123 Residency Programme in Vilnius, Lithuania (2023).



From 2022 to 2023, I was the lead curator of Confluencea research and residency programme, I initiated with QANAT, LE18 with 2 other curators, Francesca Masero (Morocco) and Shayma Nader (Palestine). Premised on collaborative processes of site-situated knowledge, the project brought together artists from Scotland and Morocco and MENA region to explore the politics and poetics of water. We organised residency programmes, screenings, talks and an exhibition at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.

get in touch

alayaang1@gmail.com
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