Neuk Collective

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.


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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.
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Neuk Collective

ARTISTS

Sarah Barnard

Sarah Barnard

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.
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Abi Blades

Abi Blades

Abi’s art practice is rooted in queer storytelling and embodiment through drag performance, music making, and poetry collaging, seeking to draw the audience into their vibrant and flamboyant inner world.
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Caleb Claire

Caleb Claire

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.
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Suzi Cunningham

Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Butoh dancer. Her solo work is highly physical, political and responsive to each unique environment, enriched with visual design.
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Zéphyr Fenocchio

Zéphyr Fenocchio

Zéphyr Fenocchio is an artist with two intertwined practices: drag performance and playwriting. Their work uses storytelling, craft and live performance to explore queer, trans and neurodivergent survival, community-building and political joy.
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Husna Hussain

Husna Hussain

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.
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Dominika Jackowska

Dominika Jackowska

Dominika Jackowska is an Edinburgh-based animator who blends animation, technology, and nature to create immersive experiences. She works with projections, exploring playful and accessible storytelling. Researching interactive projection animation.
doska.animation
Tzipporah Johnston

Tzipporah Johnston

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.
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Hanna Lappalainen

Hanna Lappalainen

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

Martyna Michalak

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.
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Amy Milner

Amy Milner

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.
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Marzena Ostromecka

Marzena Ostromecka

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.
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Gabriella Palermo

Gabriella Palermo

Gabriella is an artist focusing on women, nature, and landscapes. She works with murals, clay, and installations. Currently, she studies Art Psychotherapy and leads healing art circles in Edinburgh.
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Keisha Rowe

Keisha Rowe

Keisha is a multidisciplinary artist/educator with a background in printed textiles and illustration. She currently is experimenting with clay relief tiles and surface design to explore the intersection of her artistic practices.
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Kate Young

Kate Young

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.
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