About
I am a Glasgow-based artist, working across textiles, sculpture, and sound. Through tactile methodologies and participatory workshopping, I examine the entangled histories of migration, labour, and environmental change in my practice.
Storytelling through materials is at the heart of my practice. I investigate how genderqueer histories and diasporic narratives are continually rewoven through materials. By mapping personal history onto objects and processes, I explore how materials can reconfigure our understanding of land, place, and belonging.
A key strand of my practice is to also give space to forms of community archiving, how informal archives, craft practices, and oral traditions become repositories of loss, resilience, and memory. I see workshopping as key to give meaning to situated knowledge, making space for intergenerational dialogue and to counter extractive histories.
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 Confluence, a 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.
I studied at the Department of Sculpture and Environmental Art, at The Glasgow School of Art.
alayaang1@gmail.com
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