CURRENT RESIDENTS

Cléa Darnaud
Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Tom Warner Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Tom Warner

Cléa Darnaud

In residence: January - April 2025

Cléa Darnaud is a french drawer and intaglio engraver. In her practice, she uses traditional drawing as well as engraving to develop various illustration and publishing projects. Since 2018, she has completed several artistic residencies in France and abroad, notably in Canada, Finland, Luxembourg and Greenland. Both a moment of life and an artistic material, travel allows her to wander through the accidents of the landscape and daily life in order to collect snippets of memories.

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Mhairi Killin
Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington Independently-Funded Residency Charlotte Hetherington

Mhairi Killin

In residence: February 2025

Mhairi Killin is a visual artist from the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. She makes her return to Svalbard this February to continue the research and development of ‘Svalbard & The Hebrides - Island Archipelagoes in the Anthropocene’, which started at Artica in October/ November last year.

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Siri Helle
Nominated by Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening Tom Warner Nominated by Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening Tom Warner

Siri Helle

In residence: February - April 2025

Siri Helle is a nonfiction author and journalist whose work often explores themes of environmental responsibility, rural life, and practical engagement with the world around us.

With a background in ecological agriculture, Helle’s writing reflects her deep interest in how our connection to place influences our actions and responsibilities, both locally and globally.

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