Shona Macnaughton, Fig.1, digital drawing, 2018.
We nurture by Shona Macnaughton was commissioned in the context of Collective's redevelopment of the City Observatory site and an exchange taking place concurrently between arts organisations and artists working in 'caring' related environments in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Edinburgh. It is a response to Collective's invitation to undertake a critical evaluation during a time of organisational change and exists as a text, performance and webpage.
Shona Macnaughton is an artist based in Glasgow, making performance, writing and film concerned with labour, subjectivity and technology. Shona often stages scripts and actions that respond to the political conditions – that play out on the body – of specific architectural spaces. Selected previous projects include: Arms Length Government Body, Céline, Glasgow, 2016; The Universal School Girl, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh and Jerwood Space, London, 2016; When slaves on another, it's not love, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2014; and Every Translator is a Traitor, Collective, Edinburgh, 2013. Shona is part of the artist collective Eastern Surf.