Highlighting the Creative Talent involved in Surface Echoes
The Surface Echoes project is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving a range of different creative practitioners. The creative aspect of the collaboration has shifted and expanded over the course of the project, bringing together a rich variety of talents and expertise at different stages. We are delighted to introduce the creative team!
Beverley Hood
Beverley Hood is an artist and Reader in Technological Embodiment & Creative Practice, at the University of Edinburgh. Since the mid-1990s, she has been delving into the impact of technology and science on the body, relationships, and human experience, through the creation of digital media, performance art projects, painting, collage and writing.
Beverley is Co-Investigator and creative lead on the Surface Echoes project, working closely with all the creative collaborators.
Website: www.bhood.co.uk
Instagram: @beverley.hood.studio
Image: It’s all about the feelings… (2021-23), digital performance
ALISON MAYNE
Alison Mayne is a researcher in handcraft, wellbeing, adoption and adaptation of social media platforms, everyday textiles and ethics in academic practice. Her most recent textiles research focuses on Scottish wool mills, and the preservation of textile heritage. She has her own creative practice in spinning, crochet and knit design.
Alison is the Research Assistant on the Surface Echoes project, coordinating administration, undertaking literature review for writing and presentations, and developing participatory workshops.
Website: www.knitrospective.com
Instagram: @Knitrospective
Catherine Street
Catherine Street is a visual artist working across collage, writing, painting, sculpture, video, sound and performance. Her work is about the interplay of body and language.
Catherine brings her experience with collage and text to the Surface Echoes project working with Bev on the physical collage and script.
Claire Doyle
Claire Doyle is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London (2005) and the Theatre School of Dance and Drama (1998), with over 25 years of worldwide performance, creative production, and teaching experience. Now based in Edinburgh, Claire is the owner and creative director of an award-nominated arts social enterprise, ‘3Theatre’ #empoweringcreativity
In her role as part of the Surface Echoes team, she helped design and facilitate a workshop for the Eczema Outreach Support youth panel. The goals were to foster meaningful participation, create a safe and creative environment that would encourage open discussion, and inspire impactful ideas.
Headshot Image ©Andrea Thomson
Sarah Rose Graber
Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, performer, and director. She is a Circumnavigator Scholar having traveled around the world researching theatre for social change, won a Fulbright award to create devised work across the UK, was named "One of 15 Women to Watch" in Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine, and her TEDx talk on her research with Serendipity in creative practice has been featured at several events and at universities.
As a collaborator on the project, Graber is bringing her skills in script writing, audio recording, and dramaturgy to the creation of the Surface Echoes final script and text collage.
Headshot Image ©Joe Mazza Photography
James Brook
James Brook is a graphic designer, living in Edinburgh, specialising in typography, book design, and identities for the visual arts sector, working in close collaboration with artists, galleries, museums and arts organisations.
He has been involved with making the collage of the Surface Echoes script available digitally as a PDF, manipulating the scanned version in Photoshop to make it easier to read and understand while still maintaining the scratchy, disruptive aesthetic of the original. He has worked closely with Bev Hood and Catherine Street, reading through the script to analyse how the degraded collaged form slows down the reader to create a more thoughtful reading experience and how that engagement can be improved with subtle typographic interventions.
Website: www.jamesbrook.net
Instagram: @jamesbrookdesign
Liam Russell
Liam Russell is a seasoned musician and visionary producer dedicated to empowering young talent. With over a decade of experience, Liam's expertise spans music education, recording, and production for diverse projects including film, theatre, and community events. He's also the Director behind UP YER AIRTS, a charitable organisation nurturing creative career pathways alongside young people in Dumfries and Galloway.
As part of the Surface Echoes project and in collaboration with the rest of the team, Liam is creating an immersive audio journey, inviting listeners to imagine themselves in the shoes of others through storytelling.
LinkedIn: liam-russell-creative
Instagram: @liam_russell_creative_
