Silence Awareness Existence Program Vincent Corrèze France Painting, Drawing, Poetry www Vincent Corrèze is a French artist who explores identity through portraits of a humanity that is both primitive and symbolic. Every detail is meant to blur the boundaries between dreams and reality: totemic faces, extravagant features, esoteric symbols and excessive colours. Creatures of fragile beauty and despair, the faces and figures depicted in his work are often altered by symbols or chromatics wounds. The mask as a societal identity is an important focus of his work. His paintings hold up a mirror to the conscious and its forgotten place in our society. His work features natural, unprocessed, almost organic material. Working with formal essentials allows him to engage the emotional perception at the deepest level and establish the fundamentals of his research. He seeks to create self-conscious works unspoiled by excessive rationalization and standardization. Pauline Nolan Australia Painting Just completing my BFA, majoring in painting. I mostly use oils on canvas. My current focus is : Guiding Lights. I integrate research on Lighthouses, spiritual messages, meditation and Psychology. I aim for an immersive experience for the viewer that conveys a sense of peace. Jacob Kyle USA Academic Study, Writing, Sanskrit Translation www "Recovering philosophy as something practiced, not merely studied." I’m Jacob Kyle — a writer, educator, and scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of philosophy, contemplative practice, and lived experience. My work explores how meaning is cultivated through language, ritual, and art, with a particular focus on Indian philosophy, aesthetics, and non-dual Tantric traditions. I’m currently completing doctoral research at Oxford on the Pratyabhijñā (“recognition”) school of philosophy, as articulated by Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta in 9th–10th century Kashmir. My research examines how aesthetic cultivation functions as a central mode of knowing, grounded in an ontology of dynamic creativity. Alongside this work, I lead Embodied Philosophy, an educational platform dedicated to translating rigorous scholarship into practices that support contemporary spiritual and intellectual life. I approach contemplative study as both a formative and ethical act, committed to making deep wisdom traditions accessible without diluting their rigor or reducing them to dogma. I identify as a scholar-practitioner: I’m interested not only in what ideas mean, but in what they do — how they shape perception, sensibility, and transformation. As an artist, I work primarily through writing. During my time at Arteles, I will be developing a manuscript on rasa theory, an underappreciated philosophy of emotion that links aesthetic experience with spiritual liberation and offers new ways of working with emotional life

January Jessi Phillips USA Fiction Writing www I’m a writer, musician, and journalist who splits time between California and Michigan. I’ve released three records under the moniker Eight Belles and worked as a reporter for an NPR station, and I’m working on a novel about a multi-generational family musical group. My work focuses on connections to ancestry and place, and the way our identities are influenced by those connections. Corey Tazmania New York, USA Performance, Pedagogy www Corey is an actor, movement and intimacy director, and educator in the field of theatrical performance. Her applied research focuses on developing new pathways and strategies for maintaining and supporting the theatrical artist’s well-being while in the collaborative creation and performance process. Anne Jackson Canada Oil painting www Colour has always been at the heart of my creative vision. Following the oil glazing techniques developed by Netherlandish masters of centuries ago, I use multiple thin layers of transparent oil colour to create a luminous depth in my minimalist abstract paintings. The indirect painting approach requires time, patience, and close attention, a process that I find to be a form of meditation in itself. I become fully absorbed in what I am doing and the rest of the world falls away.  A love of rich colour and especially deep darks contribute to the sense of stillness, intensity, and mystery of my creative work. I love to paint, read, cycle, hike, travel, spend time in beautiful spaces whether they be natural or created, to share with loved ones, and to explore. Sev Gedra New York, USA Embroidery, Sculpture, Painting www "Sev Gedra is an artist exploring the connection between craft techniques and intergenerational conversations." I am an artist, fabricator, and craftswoman interested in the parallels between craft techniques and intergenerational conversations. Through densely beaded sculptures, often wearable, I address themes of intergenerational dialogue and ancestral trauma. I use embroidery as a visual metaphor for how we mend generational rifts and rebuild our familial fabric or when we choose to allow those relationships to fray. Using historical techniques and visual references, I incorporate a range of material including everything from beads and bones to amber and inherited linen to illustrate a nuanced narrative about reframing legacy. Each material holds deep symbolic significance and each stitch could be interpreted as representing ancestral interactions or memory or a decision to break traditions that no longer serve.

Olivia Chung Australia Poetry, Prose, Mixed-media www Liv Chung is a Chinese-Australian poet, writer and clinical psychologist living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her practice navigates the interstitial spaces between art, science, culture and philosophy, exploring the paradoxical tensions and existential questions of what it means to be human with privileged and marginalised identities in a time of unprecedented systems growth and collapse. She writes as an act of solidarity, resistance and reconnection to her human and more-than-human kin. Leonie Bradbury Netherlands / USA Curating, Writing, Thinking through art www "Bradbury’s current research interests include the agency of objects, speculative futurism and the archival gesture in contemporary art." Dr. Leonie Bradbury is an artist-philosopher and curator of contemporary art living in Beverly, MA, USA. Bradbury has years of experience creating compelling and innovative exhibitions and promoting artists as thought leaders. She currently serves as the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston. At Emerson, she directs their platform for visual art “Emerson Contemporary” focused on presenting moving image works and media art engaged with new and emerging technologies. Bradbury is interested in thinking through the roles art and artists play in society and examining how artistic practice is a form of knowledge production that facilitates discourse and elicits empathy. Her current research interests include the agency of objects, speculative futurism and the archival gesture in contemporary art. She enjoys engaging in deep conversation about art, science, nature, and philosophy to explore and better understand the nature of being in the world. As a secular Buddhist, she practices yoga and mindfulness with a focus on integrating ethics, kindness and compassion in everyday modern life. Leyla Josephine Glasgow, UK Poetry, Film, Performance www "What could possibly be more important than play, pain and pleasure." Leyla Josephine is a poet, performance artist and film maker. She's fascinated with identity, power dynamics within relationships, nature and creativity as a spiritual practice. Her first poetry collection In Public/In Private contained Forward Prize 2024 winning poem Dear John Berger. Her performance work Daddy Drag won Autopsy Award 2019. Her short film Groom was nominated for Scottish Bafta and Critics Circle Award 2023. Her YA play Ms Campbell's Class Fourth Period was performed globally as part of Wonderfools Positive Stories for Negative Times. She's currently working on two feature film scripts and a new poetry collection which will be her main focus while at Arteles. Her time at Arteles is funded by Creative Scotland.

Dirk Bahmann South Africa Sculpture, installation, architecture Dirk is a Johannesburg based South African visual artist, architect, and lecturer, and a doctoral candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand. Working across sculpture and spatial installation, his research investigates how atmospheres; the felt tonalities of space, shape perception, attachment, and meaning. He is particularly concerned with numinous affect, moments when places and spaces become charged with a thick sense of presence. His work aims to make intangible spatial qualities tangible and discussable, positioning atmosphere as a site of artistic, architectural, and pedagogical practice. His practice takes form through staged sculptural assemblages, spatial maquettes, and immersive installations that use material, form, and light to render atmosphere perceptible. Informed by posthumanist philosophy, his practice is grounded in iterative, hands on making as a form of inquiry and a dialogical way of working alongside materials, sites, and places. His methodology emphasizes slowness, deep listening, and sustained relation building, guided by an ethic of care toward the more than human ecologies with which he collaborates. Kalina Kostova Berlin, Germany Drawing, Painting, Writing www "In the sea of ​​individualism, only one’s own dissolution is a path to naturalness" Kalina Kostova (*1997, Munich) is a versatile artist and author based in Berlin, renowned for her painting within the international art scene. Her work is characterized by a profound engagement with philosophical and existential themes. Kostova explores fundamental questions of life, such as the impact of nature, pain, love, and the inevitability of transience. She frequently contrasts contemporary, performance-driven society with the instinctual needs of individuals. Currently, she is working on a philosophical book that fuses text and visual art, comprising over 100 pages. Her approach combines surrealistic and symbolic elements that often reflect inner experiences and human relationships. Kostova has participated in prestigious exhibitions, including her recent showcase at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris during the Artshopping fair. Her artistic practice involves a scientific approach to depict complex emotions and observations from nature convincingly. Through her art, she aims to establish a deeper connection between viewers and their surroundings by making the invisible visible, inviting reflection on our shared human experiences. Seiu Yang Taipei, Taiwan Ceramics, Installation, Worldbuilding www "i am a diasporic ghost." between places and temporalities, my art emerges through fragments of clay, words, and worldbuilding as intertwined materials. the spaces i inhabit are thresholds made of memory, body, and overlapping time; cellular memory becomes atmospheric, and emotion turns physical, like stars penetrating porcelain. i am an autistic nomadic artist. each residency, every dwelling, is a calibration of gravity. i measure time in firings and soil texture that reshapes my nervous system. i build realms that study belonging with the distance of forest, volcanic shore, or city studio, each becoming another constellation orbiting the question of home. my spirit ghosties are particles of metamorphosis, tiny portals through which inner-child memory translates itself into collective myth. when i sculpt, i listen to clay as dark matter, revealing in frequencies only tenderness can detect. lastly, i am a quantum storyteller. my art travels between dimensions of care. each gesture, cracks embodied, rewrites the equation of shame and trauma through alchemy. i infuse every vessel with the data of healing: what i learn from my body’s rhythm, from the autistic logic of sensitivity, and from the fluctuating economies of energy and trust. See the list of all the Arteles residents here