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Scotland’s Workshops Award 2025: Kialy Tihngang

It is a pleasure to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Scotland's Workshops Award is Kialy Tihngang. Kialy will be working across Street Level Photoworks and Edinburgh Printmakers and plans to use the opportunity to develop a series of 2D works that experiment at the intersection of print and photography.

The Scotlands Workshops Awards aims is to give one emerging artist the time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at two of the 10 visual art production facilities around Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops. Link here to read more about the award.

Kialy Tihngang is a Glasgow-based Cameroonian-British artist and researcher. Her practice focuses on colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices, but also on her own misremembering, misreading, and romanticisation of said practices, fabulating artefacts from reimagined histories and speculated futures. Her work uses Afro-presentism, the dark humour of Nollywood, and the visual language of Western mass media to explore Blackness, queerness, Britishness, and the absurd structural oppressions surrounding these personal themes.

This residency is funded through Scotlands Workshops, supported by Creative Scotland