Saya Rose Naruse announced as 2024 Baltic Bothy Resident
26 Mar 2024
We are pleased to announce Saya Rose Naruse as the recipient of the 2024 Baltic Bothy Residency.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Bothy Project, selected Naruse from an open call for emerging artists based in the North East of England (County Durham, Northumberland, Teesside or Tyne and Wear). She will be spending one week at Sweeney’s Bothy on the Isle of Eigg.
Naruse is an interdisciplinary artist based in the North East. Her practices include filmmaking, photography, puppet-making and theatre-making. She trained at East 15 Acting School and seeks to centre her work around social justice, human experience and environmentalism. Naruse wants to explore how we can reconnect with nature and create art that inspires or starts the conversation to realign ourselves with the natural world.
Her previous work includes working as a puppet designer/director on Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage) and Pursuers of the Future (Theatre Space North East). She has also worked as a maker, photographer and filmmaker for theatres, dance companies and arts organisations across the UK.
Saya is the sixth resident to undertake the Baltic Bothy Residency. Previous residents have included Katie Cuddon (2017), Julia Heslop (2018), Grace Denton (2019), Holly Argent (2021) and Sarah Jenkins (2023).
Bothy Project
Bothy Project is a unique and independent charitable organisation operating in a set of rural contexts, providing creative residencies in bespoke small-scale, off-grid spaces in Scotland. Residents are able to use their residencies to explore creativity, landscape and living simply. Sweeney’s Bothy is located on the Isle of Eigg.
