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Street Level Photoworks and Artlink Artist Exchange: Demelza Kingston and Jacqui Devenney Reed will be participating in this one-month exchange residency.

There is an ongoing historical relationship with the people of Scotland, particularly Glasgow, and the people in the North-West of Ireland, particularly Donegal. Street Level Photoworks in collaboration with Artlink (Ireland) are delighted to announce the two artists chosen to participate in this years one-month exchange residency. Glasgow based artist Demelza Kingston will be heading to Artlink in Fort Dunree (Ireland), and Donegal based artist Jacqui Devenney Reed will be here at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow.

Through this exchange programme, we are opening up opportunities to explore, amongst other things, historical and contemporary cultural and economic links, landscape and place-making, the ‘remote’ and the ‘centre’, as well as the sustainability of communities in rural and urban areas. More information outlining the residency can be found here

Demelza Kingston - Working in photography and moving image, Demelza's processes span  analogue, digital and the camera-less to explore how humans connect with the more-than human. From archive to fieldwork, research informs Demelza's practice as a kind of speculative archaeology. Much of her work relates to plants—their lore, commodification and prohibition. Having previously worked with homegrown developers to explore the properties, histories and folklore of wormwood, she is now expanding on these processes and themes, exploring the arrival, impact, stories and properties of ‘invasive’ ‘non-native’ ‘weeds’.

Jacqui Devenney Reed - Jacqui's work blurs the line between document and reflection—each image a quiet witness to the enduring textures of identity, and the spaces where personal and collective histories meet. Her practice is grounded in the documentation of evolving cultural identity, with a particular focus on the human stories shaped by language, tradition, and everyday ritual. Drawn to moments that carry emotional weight— she aims to create honest, intimate images that honour the depth of lived experience. Her work holds space for voices often overlooked, offering images as archival fragments—poetic yet grounded—mapping the connection between people, land, and the cultural soul of place.

This residency is part of an ongoing partnership between Artlink and Street Level Photoworks and is funded by core costs to the organisations from the Arts Council of Ireland and Creative Scotland.