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Team
Ane Lopez, Co-Producer
Ane (she/her) is a producer, film programmer and artist from the Basque Country. She previously worked as a programme administrator for Market Gallery and as a film programmer for Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. Ane is a co-founder of A+E, a collective of artists working together towards a post-oil vision and she is laying the foundations of Burnieshed, a newly formed artist-led initiative located at the heart of a rewilding project in East Perthshire.
Bruce Phillips, Co-Producer
Bruce (he/him) is a producer, curator and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. He has 20 years experience commissioning artworks and working closely with communities. Bruce joined Deveron projects in 2025 and previously worked for organisations such as South London Gallery, Sustrans and Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust, and has curated/produced projects in Chicago, Edinburgh, London, Taipei and throughout Aotearoa.
Jenny Salmean, Co-Director
Jenny (she/they) has been based in Aberdeenshire since 2018 and joined us at Deveron Projects in 2022. As Co-Director, Jenny leads on the creative development of our work, including the programme and how we work together. Jenny supports artists to realise ambitious, collaborative artworks, by embracing accessibility, rurality and community, in all its complexity. Jenny is an enthusiastic grower, composter, knitter, maker and figure-it-outer.
Luci Turner, Square Deal Caretaker
Luci (they/them) started working as the Square Deal caretaker in 2024, where they help the team with turnovers for the accommodation and community hub, making sure the spaces are clean and ready to use. They are from Huntly, and in their spare time they can be found crocheting animals and characters from TV shows.
Matthew Evans, Co-Director
Matthew (he/they) joined us at Deveron Projects in July 2021. As Co-Director he leads on the organisation's finances, and management of our buildings and office. Before moving to Huntly with his family, Matthew ran a theatre company in London. He enjoys getting outdoors, walking up hills and swimming in rivers.
Alan Macpherson, Chair
Alan (he/him) lives in Huntly with his family. He moved here in 2010 and has been involved with Deveron Projects since then as a participant, writer, artist-in-residence (Minor Paths, 2012) and then as a member of the Board from 2019 until now. Alan took on the role of Chair in 2022. He works at the University of Aberdeen, teaching across the Film & Visual Culture and English departments and running the MLitt in Film, Visual Culture & Arts Management.
Dr Em Merrin May Armstrong
Em (they/them) is a plant-focused interdisciplinary researcher based in Glasgow. Em explores the intersections of ecology, plants, queerness, disability, power, and community through performance, lecture, sound, and participatory workshops. Their experience in higher education and community-led research helps them challenge unequal power structures, and explore horizontal knowledge exchanges in unexpected places. Em has a PhD in plant genetics and environmental responses, and is happiest in bogs, woods, and gardens.
Holly Robertson
Holly (she/her) is the Virtual Headteacher for Care Experienced Children and Young People in Aberdeenshire. Holly works with the Promise Initiative in Scotland and set up the first Promise Group in Huntly, before establishing these across 28 primary and secondary schools across the 'shire. She was nominated for national Teacher of the Year in 2024.
Kim Wide, Treasurer
Kim (she/her) is the founder, CEO, and Artistic Director of Take A Part (TAP), a Socially Engaged Arts organisation, spearheading numerous initiatives and establishing multiple creative community social enterprises and heritage/cultural projects and organisations. Kim is a keen walker and runner, has two cats and four children, making for a busy life!
Louisa Hrabowy
Louisa (she/her) champions the transformative power of arts and culture to drive social change. She supports funders, cultural organisations and public bodies to design strategies and programmes that advance cultural democracy and strengthen community impact. With experience across arts, international development and place-based regeneration, she blends strategic grant-making, policy insight and participatory practice.
Lynn Rutter, Secretary
Lynn (she/her) is retired from a career in international HR. She’s bored if not busy, a compulsive Resource Investigator and Team Worker - with Belbin’s principles at heart. Lynn is on the board of Networks of Wellbeing, Huntly Hairst, Gartly Tin Hut, the Remakery and the Nisbet Poetry Award. Having worked and travelled in over 60 countries Lynn remains fascinated by different places and cultures.
Meriem Kayouche-Reeve
Meriem (she/her) has been a part of the lively Huntly community since 2018. She has worked in Wales, England, Greece, Australia, Oman and now Scotland in environmental and community roles. She's passionate about nature, reading, gardening, yoga, and crafting. It is with this knowledge and experience that she supports Deveron Projects to develop community arts projects sustainably and inclusively.
Pauline Burmann
Pauline (she/her) is based in Amsterdam and is the founder of African Arts and Theory (AAAT), a platform dedicated to research, archiving, and dialogue on contemporary African art and its diasporas. Her work addresses artistic mobility, knowledge production, and self-organised models of exchange in and between Africa and Europe. She is an advisor to Rembrand Association, Labyrinth Within, ArtTable Netherlands and leads the Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency Award. She is currently a doctoral researcher at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, examining the impact of artist-in-residency programmes across Africa.
Yunior Aguiar
Yunior (he/him) is a contemporary artist and educator from Cuba, now based in Scotland. He explores cultural processes of integration and assimilation. His work concentrates on material culture related to memory, displacement, identity, and history. Yunior's artistic practice is rooted in research and process, using material methods, found objects, and contemporary art resources as analytical tools. He is a lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands, where he teaches undergraduate programs in Art and Contemporary Practices, as well as Visual Communication and Design. He enjoys collaborating with others, engaging in hands-on building tasks, and exploring trails on his mountain bike.
Ashanti Harris, LAND Residency (2025 - 28)
Ashanti Harris (she/her) is a trans-disciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer based in Glasgow. Working between dance, performance, facilitation, sound, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts dominant historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. Alongside her creative practice, Ashanti is co-founder of Project X – a community interest company platforming dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Scotland; and Research Advisor for Body Remedy – a [forming] ecology centring the experiences of black people and people of colour who identify as women and/or non-binary.
Keng Keng Tang, Square Deal Residency (2025-26)
Keng Keng Tang (she/they) is a textile artist, activist and experimental milliner originally from Yunnan, Southwest China, now based in Glasgow. She has been involved with various community-based racial, environmental and social justice movements around Scotland and in London. Their work has centred on communal sharing of personal memories and collective resting, using textile practices as a medium of connection. She regularly runs workshops focussed on facilitating marginalised groups to story-tell through specific textile techniques - sewing, mending, weaving, printing and natural dyeing.
rah naqvi, Publics Residency (2026-27)
rah naqvi (they/he) is a maker that loves many mediums. they prefer slow processes of making and sometimes fast, to urge us towards action. they make work in dissent and disapproval of what often surrounds the act of making - enforced institutional isolations, empty social appearances, and cycles of dependance on institutions and grants. they love to sing and write songs in pursuit of liberation, in critique, and in adoration of nature and quieter beings. they love crafting and gossiping together, creating networks of solidarities and building community outside of transactional spaces. their practice draws inspiration from the resilience of their people and their persistence in faith despite adversity. initially trained in textile practices, rah now works across song, performance, painting, wood carving, writing, video, and community crafting.
Bojan Fajfrić, Publics Residency (2025-26)
Bojan Fajfrić (he/him) is an artist and filmmaker from Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, based in the Netherlands since 1995. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and former resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, his work explores the entanglement of personal memory with collective historical consciousness and the unfolding of political events. Working primarily with moving images and photography, he creates layered narratives that reflect on history’s impact on individual lives.
Yiqing Xia
Abinaya Radhakrishnan
Paulina Zorillo-Alonso
Misa Brzezicki
Felix
Natalia Palombo
Jess Carnegie
Zuzana Fryntová
İpek Aksu
Dina Salimi
Anita Krasowska
Robyn Wolsley
Petra Pennington
Claudia Zeiske
Evgeniia Balko
Mina Brennan
Tuğba Baycan
Bürde Yılmaz
Jemma Ward
Niamh MacKenzie
Trisha Mandal
Rhian Davies
Najmeh Doostdar
Mikaela Zotou
Midori Dobashi
Xavier Verger
Will Gore
Zeynep Yildiz
Natasha Natarajan
Lauren Campbell
Laura Henry
Lauren Dixon
Clyde Williamson
Lola Otta
Alix Rothnie
Josephine Pierrel
Sandra Messow
Anna Reid
Georgina Watson
Alexandra Vlaserou
Jemima Wilson
Alice Bottoni
Alice Evans
Anna Reid
Linda Bolsakova
Dominic O'Donnell
You Li (Yoyo)
Sophie Lindsey
Peter Moosgaard
Jeni Cumming
Rachael Disbury
Juliette Walker
Katriona Anderson
Tom Atkinson
Alice Maselnikova
Lindsay McMillan
Riccardo Mariani
Joss Allen
Aminder Virdee
Katie Carlisle
Camila Crosta
Alexander "Twig" Champion
Katie Johnston
Christiane Bernhardt
Morgan Cahn
Ioannis Tsagkarakis
Laura Johnson
Simba Leung
Anthony Elliott
Elisabetta Rattalino
Rachel Walker
Kevin McPhee
Kirsty Gifford
Niall Crossan
Katy Bartholomew
Kate Wieteska
Duncan Bremner
Blane Johnson
Gayle Meikle
Erik Smith
Claire Briegel
Stefanie Ford
Dane Sutherland
Keno Canzler
Ben Jones
Sarah Rumis
Niall Ferguson
Ting Fang Hsueh (Meigo)
Suzanne Tsang
Lin Pan
Ashley Branston
Allen Breen
Tonia Lu
Kimberley Anderson
Anna Insa Vermehren
Catrin Jeans
newLeaves
By exploring a series of long-durational, living artworks – ranging between 50 and 400 years – the New Leaves Network (NLN) brings together national and international forestry and cultural researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to understand the multiple roles that such interdisciplinary projects can play in shaping future visions and actions. Led by Chris Fremantle, Dee Heddon & Rachel Clive at Robert Gordon University.
Groundwork
A UK-wide network of small arts organisations focused on working collaboratively with communities in their localities and a commitment to socially just practice. Current members: Arts Catalyst (Sheffield), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle), Deptford X (London), Deveron Projects (Huntly), Rule of Threes (Merseyside).
Marr Local Learning Community Partnership (LLCP)
The LLCP is the link between public bodies and the local communities they serve, allowing for partnership working and a targeted, whole system approach to be taken when designing, delivering and improving public services accessed by people in Marr area. Deveron Projects sits on the Community Empowerment Subgroup with representatives from Aberdeenshire Council, Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action, Marr Area Partnership and NHS Grampian.
Social Makers
A collaborative group of leaders in Socially Engaged Art who have come together to strengthen and further the field of socially-engaged art practices in the UK and Ireland. Fostering investigation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among organisational and artistic practices and research.
Huntly Town Team
The Huntly Town Team was brought together in November 2016 by Aberdeenshire Council with the aim of improving communication, partnership working and project delivery in the town. Anchor organisations represented include: Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership, Departments of Aberdeenshire Council, Deveron Projects, Gordon Primary School + PTA, Gordon Rural Action, Huntly Community Council, Huntly Community Sports Trust, Huntly Development Trust, Huntly Sports Trust, Local Councillors, Networks of Wellbeing, The Gordon Schools and others.