Michele Marcoux is an Edinburgh based artist currently undertaking a Royal Scottish Academy Residency for Scotland on the Isle of Lewis.
Her project is to create paintings in the landscape and at a family house that explore nostalgic layers: where domestic archaeology meets ancient landscape and personal and collective memory overlap.
For her Artist’s Talk Michele will introduce her art practice and also the research she has been doing both indoors at a house near Stornoway and in the landscapes of Ness and Tolsta.
Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which enables visual artists a period of research, development and production at partner venues across Scotland. In 2024, thirteen artists were awarded a total of £55,000 for residencies at partner venues in Scotland. Michele Marcoux is working with partner venue An Lanntair for her residency.
RSA Residencies for Scotland is funded by the Royal Scottish Academy W Gordon Smith & Jay Gordonsmith Bequest
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MICHELE MARCOUX was born in Washington DC, USA and has been based in Scotland since 1990.
She received a BA Fine Art (cum laude) from Bennington College, Vermont, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1983. In 2016 she completed a Masters of Letters Fine Art Practice (distinction) at Glasgow School of Art.
Selected exhibitions Eternal Return, solo show Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, 2024, and Hagridden, solo show Summerhall, Edinburgh 2014. Ecologies of Displacement, two, two person shows with Farrukh Adnann: at Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan & Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan/Aug 2022
Residencies & Grants
MAY 2024 Michele was awarded an RSA Residency for Scotland to develop work on the Isle of Lewis in collaboration with An Lanntair, Stornoway. The residency takes place in May 2025.
JUN/JULY 2023, Michele spent two months solo travelling on a self-directed residency in Aragon, Spain. Her research was developed into ETERNAL RETURN, a solo exhibition at The Scottish Arts Club in April 2024.
In 2021-22 Michele was selected to take part in Ecologies of Displacement a British Council/Creative Scotland funded 9-month international residency between Scotland and Pakistan. The residency included 1 month travel to Pakistand and two exhibitions: at Koel Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan & Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2021 Michele received a Creative Scotland grant for, Creating a Pandemic Imaginary, a residency at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar Scotland.
In 2019 Michele was one of 6 international artists selected for the Taking Time/Prendendo Tempo residency at The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy, developing the project Casser Maison.
Michele exhibits her work in Scotland and London.