20 Castle Terrace Edinburgh, EH1 2E 

Neuk Collective, established in 2021, is a grassroots network supporting neurodivergent artists across Scotland. Neurodivergentartists experience significant barriers such as poverty, stigma, and unmet access needs, and are often excluded from existing studio provision. Their members (134 and counting, with 33 based in Edinburgh) include craftspeople, visual artists, writers, and performers at all career stages, with works exhibited nationally and internationally, including at their own members’ exhibitions. They amplify neurodivergent voices while fostering creativity, accessibility, and care within the arts. They have received recognition for our innovative approach, including winning the 2024 Creative Edinburgh Community Award.

Public Programme:
They will have an open studio and/or exhibition for members to share their work with the community. They will offer free community workshops in subjects including art for anxiety, embroidery, painting, monoprinting, collage and Butoh dance. Their members have very diverse skills and experiences. They will also run sessions on access/inclusion.

Tzipporah Johnston is an embroidery and mixed media artist based in Edinburgh. A central theme in her work is the theory of monotropism and its potential to offer a theory of autism that doesn’t foreground distress or deficit.

@tzipporahfeiga

Amy Milner is an emerging curator and producer whose practice is inspired by neurodivergence and exploring different perspectives. She co-directed her first exhibition, in 2023 and co-curated Neuk Collective’s latest members’ exhibition in 2024.

@amyrmilner

Jana Kacova (Slovak, b. 1978), aka JOKOU, is a sculptor & ceramicist. Her hand-built ceramics fuse craft, mysticism, & storytelling, often with hand-painted details. Inspired by nature, psychology, and neurodivergence, her work explores human connections.

Sarah Barnard (b. 1984) is inspired by polar exploration and environments, her work combines painting, drawing, printmaking and illustration. Sarah was an artist in residence in the Arctic Circle, and founded the Polar Artists Collective.

@sarah.polar.art

Marzena creates playful, interactive works beyond material constraints. She experiments with mixed media, found objects, and humour, embracing diversity, sustainability, and lifelong learning to spark curiosity and human connection.

@m.ostromecka

Hanna Lappalainen is a dancer, performer and filmmaker. Their main interests are screendance and participatory practice.

Husna Hussain is an artist working with oil paints, watercolour, inks, pencil and charcoal. She is inspired by form and design looking to find the light.

@theartofhusnahussain

Emma Griffin is a fine artist and printmaker based in Fife, Scotland and originally from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Her work focuses predominately on subjects relating to nature, mental health and climate change.

@emmagriffinstudio

Nikhita Devi is a multidisciplinary artist who works with performance and is experimenting with expanding their horizons, and investigating the world of visual arts.

@nikhita.devii

Caleb Claire is a queer and disabled self-taught artist. They develop work in multiple mediums, and they enjoy making art that helps them to process, understand and share their thoughts and feelings.

@enby.enpointe

Kate Young is a composer and scenographer whose artistic practice is centered around developing methods of composition informed by her experience of syneasthesia. She continues to research methods of building interactive environments.

@kateyoung_music

Martyna is a self-taught weaver and runs a community project and free community workshops. Her project “The Conscious Living” has the aim to improve community mental health, reduce loneliness, and promote environmental awareness through free, inclusive activities in Edinburgh.

@martistory