Between February-March 2025, six University of Dundee Humanities students were selected to be writers-in-residence at the V&A Dundee.
The residents each spent one week working in a dedicated space in the museum, making creative responses to A Fragile Correspondence, a major international exhibition looking at intersections of land, language and architecture in the Scottish Highlands, Islands and Lowlands. They were asked to interpret the idea of ‘correspondence’ and to consider how they might extend or re-shape what it means to correspond with the world around us. The selected students were Amelia Convey, Arianna de Prosperis, Ayanna Cullen, Hannah Hamilton, Valeriia Patlakh and Timika Sukhai.
The residents were selected by a panel of members of the V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective (YPC), with guidance from staff from the University of Dundee and V&A Dundee. The residency was supported in a work-in-progress sharing with feedback from V&A curators, University of Dundee staff and members of YPC, and residents contributed to a podcast produced by YPC and published by V&A Dundee.
Listen to the podcast on V&A Dundee’s website. Samples of the students’ work can be found at the end of this blog.
This writing residency was a project of YPC, initiated with support of Dr Johanna Linsley (University of Dundee) and Rachael Simpson (Young People’s Producer, V&A Dundee). A Fragile Correspondence was a project of the Scotland + Venice partnership, who commissioned a creative team consisting of the Architecture Fringe, -ism and /other to develop new work. The exhibition was one of the collateral events for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and moving to the V&A Dundee from November 2024 to May 2025.
Click on the link for writing by Timika Sukhai and enjoy the images below by Valeriia Patlakh. Other images University of Dundee Creative Services Photography Team
