October Residency 2023

Sidney Taylor

Hi there! I’m Sidney Taylor and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Rob and Susan Mulholland at the Arcadia Sculpture Centre near Drymen, Scotland for a week from Saturday October 28 until Friday November 3, 2023. I am a Watson Fellow from the United States pursuing a yearlong self designed project titled “How Art Builds Community, How Communities Build Art”. For my project, I’m connecting with international communities of artists and engineers to ignite imaginations through collaborative and community focused large scale sculpture builds and to learn how effective workshops are started, funded, and maintained. Through my project, I’m also seeking to explore the question “What types of creative environments empower communities?”.

While at Arcadia, I was hands-on in the metal shop gaining experience and helping fabricate an orb sculpture. When not in the shop, I was chatting with Rob and Susan, exploring the local countryside, practicing my fiddle, and helping out with tasks around the property. I was the lucky first visitor to stay in the new artist in residence cabin on site which is just around the corner from the workshop and courtyard.

Huge thank you to Rob and Susan for everything this week!

Artist’s cabin