Cample Residency 2025
Maria Howard

Throughout February

This February, artist Maria Howard will undertake a ten-day residency at Cample. She will explore the terrain between Cample and neighbouring village Gatelawbridge and research historic local sandstone quarrying as part of a project she is currently developing.

Maria Howard is a British-Italian artist based in Glasgow. Working primarily with text, writing and sculpture, her research-led practice is concerned with the relationships between memory and imagination, site and material, colonialism and climate. She is a recipient of the Gillian Purvis Trust Award for New Writing, and has been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and longlisted for the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry. She is currently a part-time PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at Glasgow School of Art and a co-editor of Nothing Personal magazine.
 

Maria is will be our third February resident; previous residents include poet, writer and zinemaker Nina Mingya Powles (2023) and writer and artist Kate Morgan (2024).

These short residencies support artists, writers and makers who write in the intersections of poetry, prose and inquiry, exploring language, material, the body, terrain, landscape, personal memory, migration and colonial histories.

A photograph of Maria Howard smiling warmly at the camera.

Join Maria for a practical writing workshop on Saturday 8 February that explores writing from site. The workshop that will take place partly outdoors on a walk developed by Maria in the vicinity of Cample. It will provide opportunities to write and make notes during and after the walk, and to reflect on the ways places can inhabit both memory and imagination.

You can find out more about the workshop and book place a place here 

 
Three white, striated cylinders of unfired porcelain and two brown, striated cylinders of giant hogweed stem lean side by side against a white wall. Their height ranges from a finger tall to a hand tall, and they are roughly two fingers wide.

Maria Howard, column as invasive species, 2024, unfired parian clay and dried giant hogweed stalks

Citing/Siting the Claypits: A workshop for the Art Writing MLitt cohort, Glasgow School of Art, 28 March 2023