Current and Past Interns

Alice Maselnikova is our most recent Project Intern. Self-titled interactive artist and word-knitter, she has a penchant for all sorts of curious things including participatory art, large amount of books, hula-hooping and traveling. Alice graduated with BA(Hons) in Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practice from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2014 and is about to start a master's degree in Curating in 2015. Have a look at her website here.

Rachael Disbury is our current Shadow Curator Intern. Sometimes-artist, writer, curator and hopeful explorer, Rachael is nearing completion of an MFA in Contemporary Art Theory at the Edinburgh College of Art. More information (often rambling) can be found here.

Lindsay McMillan finished her Project Internship in February. Recently relocated from London to Huntly, where she graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, with a BA in Fine Art, her interests lie in the fields of art education, the relationship between art and life, and linguistics. Read her report here.

Riccardo Mariani, from Cesano Maderno, was a project intern for two months in 2014. He graduated from Università degli Studi di Milano with a BA in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation in July 2013, focusing on English and Arabic. With a passion for language and communication, he spent the following year travelling around Tunisia and Egypt.

Joss Allen was Shadow Curator Intern for the later half of 2014. He is a reluctant artist, art worker, casual record collector, occasional fire jumper and part-time tree climber. Joss graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2011 with an MFA and since graduating has lived in London and Copenhagen.  Almost nothing about his work can be found here. Read Joss's report here.

Aminder Virdee was one of our project interns. She recently relocated from London to Aberdeenshire. In 2012, Aminder graduated from the University of Westminster with a BA Hons in Fine Art and is currently a practising artist.  She has been working at Deveron Arts since the beginning of May 2014. So far, she has assisted with the Slow Marathon 2014 project, and also will be working with us for the MacKay of Uganda, Perambulator and Rhynie Woman project in the coming months. Her own website can be found here. Read Aminder's report here.

Katie Carlisle, from Glasgow, was one of our project interns for two weeks at the start of May 2014. Katie graduated in 2013 from Glasgow School of Art with a BA Hons in Fine Art. She worked with us for the Slow Marathon, Mackay of Uganda and Perambulator projects. Her own website can be found here.

Camila Crosta was our Shadow Curator Intern from Padua, Italy since November 2013 - May 2014. Camila came to Britain after completing a Masters in Art History at Venice University. She has been working at Deveron Arts on projects such as Hielan' Way, Slow Marathon, MacKay of Uganda and Rhynie Woman. Read Camilla's report here.

Alexander "Twig" Champion was our Shadow Curator Intern and Walking Intern from East Lothian, Scotland. After Studying Sculpture at Gray's School of Art, Twig worked for us from October 2013 to April 2014. He was heaviliy involved in the Hielan' Project. Read his report here.

Katie Johnston was our intern for the month of December 2013. She was a great help in all the events over the festive rush. She has returned to Glasgow to continue her study in Environmental Sculpture at GSA.

Christiane Bernhardt is currently studying Art History in Stuttgart, Germany. Christiane was our Walking Intern from July to November 2013. During these months, she worked with us on the Room to Roam festival and the Lines Lost project, among other projects. You can read her report here.

Morgan Cahn came from Dundee in summer 2013. During her time at Deveron Arts, Morgan helped with the Room to Roam festival whilst also concentrating on developing our social network. Her own website can be found here.

Ioannis Tsagkarakis was our Walking Institute Intern in summer 2013. He was funded via the Adopt an Intern programme. Ioannis is from Crete and holds a BA Hons in Business Administration from the University of Patras in Greece. He has also completed an MSc in International Festival and Event Management at Napier University in Edinburgh. Ioannis is now pursuing a career in events management, and is also in the process of setting up Citrus Art in his home town of Agios Nikolaos in Crete, based on the methodology of Deveron Arts' Town is the Venue.

Annika Goedde was our intern in Spring 2013. She is from Bottrop in Germany. She studied European Culture and Economy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany and has worked in a wide variety of arts organisations. While in Huntly, she worked n the Fernweh project with Mary Jane Jacob and other curators across the wld; you can read her here.

Laura Johnson was our Apprentice for 8 months. She grew up in Verona, Italy with English parents. She studied Communications, Media & Culture combined Spanish at Oxford Brookes University and has extensive experience in the field of dance and performance. She is a freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher currently in Uist working for Ceolas as dance development officer for the Uists & Barra as part as the project "get Scotland dancing" funded by mainly Creative Scotland.

Simba Leung was our first intern for the Walks of Life Project. Simba is from Hong Kong where he worked at the Bank of Hong Kong. He was exploring Europe and stopped in Huntly to help us out for a month on the With and Against the Flow project.

Anthony Elliott shared the project and shadow curator intern positions between Jan and Mar 2013. Anthony studied International Relations and Anthropology at the University of Sussex and most recently co-organised 'Civil Partnerships' a conference on Feminist and Queer perspectives in the arts. Anthony is ultimately working towards a curatorial vocation which combines the fields of Art, Culture, Heritage and International development. Read his report here.

Elisabetta Rattalino was our Shadow Curator Intern from October 2012 - March 2013. Elisabetta hails from Northern Italy and previously worked as a developer and coordinator at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy, she has a masters degree in Art History. 
Elisabetta has frequently delighted the DA team and visitors with her Italian cooking, as well as supporting artists Simon Preston, Michael Höpfner and Nancy Mteki on their projects. She looked after the Town Collection for the duration of her stay. Currently, Elisabetta is at St Andrews University combining working as a Phd Student in Art History and a research project for Cittadellarte in Italy Read her report here.

Rachel Walker was our Project Intern (Nov - Dec 2012). Rachel studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and previously worked as the chairperson at Generator Projects. Rachel is interested in socially engaged art in a rural context and supported Simon Preston on his Town is the Menu project. Rachel is now the International Programmer for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Read her report here.

Kevin McPhee was our Shadow Curator Intern between April-August 2012, working mainly on the Town Collection as well as on the Sambasupercollider and Rites of Way projects.

Kirsty Gifford was our Project Intern in summer 2012. Kirsty graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2010 and worked on a variety of different office and curatorial projects, such as Rites of Way. Read her report here.

Niall Crossan was our Project Intern in spring/summer 2012. Niall studied Product Design at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and was designer in residence at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Niall advised us on all aspects of marketing and design.

Katy Bartholomew was our Project Intern in spring 2012. She studied English Literature in Edinburgh before she moved to Huntly to assist with Mihret Kebede's Slow Marathon project. Katy is a keen baker, and has set up a fictional cafe with Kate Wieteska.

Kate Wieteska was Project Intern in autumn 2011. Kate studied Art History at Edinburgh University and has been a great asset to us during the project with Priya Ravish Mehra. She has since established the Huntly Craft circle and worked on our new website.

Duncan Bremner was our Shadow Curator Intern from autumn 2011 to spring 2012. Duncan had undertaken several projects as a freelance curator before he joined our team at Deveron Arts. Duncan is Executive Director of Citizen Curator in Edinburgh. Read his report here.

Blane Johnson was Project Intern in summer 2011. Born in Bellshill and raised in Huntly, Blane graduated from Textile and Surface Design at Gray's School of Art in 2011, where her final project explored military fashion;  a perfect accompaniment to Ross Sinclair's Heritage project on the Gordon clan. Read his report here.

Gayle Meikle was our third Shadow Curator Intern.  She studied at both undergraduate and post graduate levels in the school of Media Arts and Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.  She is co-founder of curatorial collective Yuck 'n Yum and is a filmmaker, visual artist and events curator. She is now in North Uist working as Assistant Curator to Broad Reach, An ATLAS Arts project for Taigh Chearsabhag. Read her report here.

Erik Smith was our Project Intern at the start of the summer 2011. Born in Glasgow and raised in Cumbernauld he studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art where he developed his creative practice as an artist and flanuer.  He helped Anthony Schrag throughout his project on defining fatherhood.

Claire Briegel was here from January to March 2011. She hails from Cheltenham and studied Criticism, English Literature and Philosophy at Cardiff University. She worked on projects with Baudouin Mouanda which was beneficial as she speaks excellent French. She is now a workshop facilitator for Skill Share Dundee, and doing a part-time MFA at Duncan of Jordanstone. You can read Claire's report here.

Stefanie Ford was our second Shadow Curator Intern. Stefanie hails from Canada, and has recently completed a Masters of Fine Art at the National University of Ireland in Galway. She developed outreach and education programmes, assisted our resident artists with project development, organised the archive and library and edited various publications. You can read her report here.

Dane Sutherland was Project Intern from September to Christmas 2010. He studied Art History at University of Aberdeen. While with us he got into the nitty-gritty of accounting and reporting. He helped with Maider López's project How Do You Live This Place? from painting stones to setting up the event, to evaluating the dots on the maps. Read his report here.

Keno Canzler was Project Intern during the summer of 2010. Keno comes from Berlin and hopes to study Economics in the future. During his stay he undertook a myriad of administrative tasks, to include the rejigging of our Facebook image bank and setting up the vegetable swap shop for the project Red Herring. Afterwards he returned to Berlin to finish school and started studying economics at Leuphana Uni in Luneburg. He was elected as head of students' union executive committee in Luneburg. He spent 6 months in Istanbul enriching his life by experiencing the great culture, enormous dynamics in society & politics of the place.

Ben Jones was our first Shadow Curator Intern. During his stay from April to September 2010 he undertook the re-curation of our town collection which is now hanging in around 60 places throughout Huntly. He also worked on the Hamish Fulton project, book and archive and the Red Herring project and blog.  You can read his report here.

Sarah Rumis graduated from Sunderland University and stayed with us from April to July 2010 as Project Intern. During her time she helped with the accounts, took on our Facebook correspondence and gave the archive an overhaul.

Niall Ferguson accompanied David Sherry’s project Health and Safety Effects from January to March 2010 as Project Intern. Niall is an IT wiz and what is even better, he loves cooking and baking. We quickly made use of these skills so that he was responsible for the website and our social networking activities, while the weekly banana cakes fuelled the team meetings. Originally Niall studied Microbiology at Glasgow University, but with a keen interest in film and the music scene he is looking for more experience in the arts world.

Ting Fang Hsueh (Meigo) is from Taiwan and graduated from the Master of Design course at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. She worked alongside the Utopia Group (Deng Dafei and He Hai) on the James Legge project and assisted workshops, event organising and advertising. Ting Fang also assisted with the Money Crunch and James Legge project designs. She was Shadow Curator Intern between July and December 2009. After this assisted in the making of a few Deveron Arts publications with the artists.Then she went back to Taipei, Taiwan, to work as Marketing sales, PR and special assistant for General Manager of her family's wine business.

Suzanne Tsang had just graduated from the internationally acclaimed Product Design course at the University of Dundee when she started as our Project Intern. While she was here, from October to December 2009, she helped us update our website and brought us into the world of social networking. 

Lin Pan comes from Beijing. She is currently undertaking a PhD on the great Huntly sinologist James Legge. While in Huntly from August to September 2009, she gave Chinese Language and Cookery lessons. 

Ashley Branston graduated from Dundee's Duncan of Jordanston School of Art in 2006. He then returned to his home town of Huntly to join our small but busy team with the Slow Down preparations. He helped us with the Capital Development of the Brander Studio where we are based. He is now in Berlin working at Studio Babelsberg as senior camera operator for ESGNTV.

Allen Breen, originally from Paisley, studied Environmental Art in Glasgow. He was with us from April to June 2009 and was assisting Jacqueline Donachie with her Slow Down project. He has set up the www.huntlyslowdown.com website; edited a video of the Richard Demarco talk on Joseph Beuys and orchestrated a stall on the farmer's market interviewing people about their cycling habits and dreams. He now works for a design company.

Tonia Lu is from China and studied Museum Studies at Leicester University. Tonia was with us from January to May 2009 during which time she helped with the marketing and design for the JONGA project with Senzeni Marasela. She also did sterling work on the archive which is now available for everybody to use. As well as this she did great preparation work for the James Legge project with the Utopia group. Unfortunately (for us) Tonia left us prematurely as she got a curatorial position with Fife Contemporary Arts and Crafts in St Andrews. For the past couple of years she has been working for Spring Fling and is leading the national (Glasgow - Newcastle - London) and regional exhibitions this year. She is also involved in Environmental Art Festival Scotland as a member of the core curatorial and production team. As well as all this she is working on her PhD in arts development in rural Scotland.

Kimberley Anderson comes from Belarette in Australia and studied Fine Art in Dundee. She came here from October 2008 to January 2009, during which time she brought the archive of Deveron Arts up to scratch. She also painted the new room (thanks Kim!) and discovered a number of archaeological features referring to former residents and decorators of the premises. Since then Kim managed to get two great new residency opportunities as far apart as Australia and Rome.

Anna Insa Vermehren is from Kiel, Germany and studied History of Art at Glasgow University. She was an intern here from September to December 2008; during this time she worked on our website and developed proposals for our new premises in the Brander building. Since then Anna moved to Huntly and worked for Deveron Arts as Project Manager until May 2012 when she went on to be the Director of Timespan in Helmsdale.

Catrin Jeans is from Girvan and studied Illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Catrin came here for a month after art school in August 2008. During this time she worked on a magazine entitled CAKE which explored the artistic boundaries of the concept 'outwith'. Catrin has gone on to establish herself as a socially engaged artist and now works as the Cultural Health Visitor for Deveron Arts.

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