email - yvette.b.bathgate@gmail.com
instagram - @yvettebathgate
Based between Scotland and Estonia.
Yvette Bathgate (she/her) makes and thinks primarily through collective models, fostering collaboration in her practice. She has worked within the collectives Tendency Towards (2016-2021), and Tactics for Togetherness (2021 - current), among others. The intersection of ecology and care, and the traces and relics of these systems, root her research. Various projects have taken the form of a library, learning programmes, workshops, reading groups, performances, dinners, events programmes and a community greenhouse, and often take on curatorial and socially engaged approaches. All of which are making practices that inform the material-based processes where sculptural works take form. Repurposed theatre sets, weaving, foraged clay, textiles, plant-dyes, stone carving, archive building and woodwork (amongst others) are used to dig into or reflect the collaborative, slow, intuitive, joyful and complicated labour of these practices. These materials are support structures; gathering, repurposing, cultivating, harvesting, processing, forming, assembling are methods in which to think through and with.
Yvette has worked as an artist in various community settings; hospitals, schools, community gardens, alternative educational spaces, and activist groups. These have been the settings where she’s learned about her values as an artist that shaped how her creative practice is positioned. In drawing light on our interdependence we work toward a fairer, more equitable world through building relationships and community. This work is both a part of her practice as well as directly informing and contextually underpinning the material explorations outwith these immediate environments.
Yvette Bathgate
Contact/Details/CV
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CV
Experience
- Senior Creative Practitioner, Artroom, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen (February 2019 - August 2023)
- Therapeutic Arts Practitioner, Newton Dee Camphill Community Ltd. (August 2021 - August 2023)
- Creative Practitioner (various projects), Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council (Feb 2021 -
August 2023)
- Co-founder and committee member, Tendency Towards (August 2016 - March 2023)
Education
- ~currently~ MA Contemporary Art, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn, Estonia 2023 - 2025
- BA Hons, Contemporary Art Practice. Gray's School of Art. 2013-2017
- Gallery Associate, Peacock Visual Arts, 2017 - 2018
- Lettering in Stone, course by Robbie Schneider, Cromarty Arts Trust, October 2022
Exhibitions / Projects
~ u p c o m i n g / o n g o i n g ~
- Always Is Everywhere, Estonian Museum of contemporary Art - EKKM, 14. June – 17. August 2025, (exhibition)
- Skaftfell residency, Nordic Baltic Grant recipient, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, August - November 2025
- Communal Powers, Collective library and learning programme, Tactics for Togetherness, since October 2022 (ongoing)
2025
- Noore Skulptori Preemia -Young Sculptor Award, EKKM, 28 Feb - 9 March (exhibition)
2024
- EKKM Reads, Reading group, Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art - EKKM, September - December 2024 (reading group)
- Six seeds in a feeder, [collaborative work with Jake Shepherd and Laura Põld for her exhibition, Ways of Seeing], viennacontemporary, Vienna, 12-15 September (exhibition)
- AEG/na:Näitus Tallinna kesklinnas, Aegna, Tallinn, 2nd - 26th July (exhibition and residency)
- Armastuse ja meelekindlusega, ARS Projektiruum, Tallinn, Estonia, 25th May - 14th June (exhibition)
- These words matter, a space for etc., Tallinn, Estonia, 1st - 28th March (exhibition)
- setting the table/setting the tone, class/trip for Contemporary Art MA EKA, August; Stand-in-School for Graphic Design MA, Berlin, February; Tactics for togetherness studio, Aberdeen January (workshops)
2023
- Screening, Uus Rada Galerii, Raja, Estonia, 28th November (screening of Nymphaea Alba)
- Gradually tracing out a circle, Galleri Snerk, Tromsø, Norway, 12th - 21st November (exhibition)
- Can Serrat , El Bruc, Catalunya, May-June (residency)
- Atmospheres of Collaboration, a sound work with Tactics for Togetherness, programmed by
Again&again, 26th March (radio)
- Communal Powers Launch&Lunch, Tactics for Togetherness Studio, 12th March (workshop)
- The Snake; a workshop, exhibition by Delaine Le Bas, The WorM, Aberdeen, curated by Enxhi Mandija, 11th March (workshop)
- I'M SO INTO YOU, Strangefield / French Street, Glasgow, curated by Ivy Deacon, 24th - 27th
February (exhibition)
- Stone carving commission for The Town Collection - Monsters Walk in Ten Chapters by Irineu
Destourelles, Deveron Projects, January (collection)
2022
- Communal Powers, Collective library, Tactics for Togetherness, from October (ongoing)
- Scratching the Coat, Tendency Towards, Jan - April (collective drawing project)
2021
- Nymphaea Alba, The Anatomy Rooms, All In Ideas, Aberdeen, 19th - 27th November (exhibition/screening)
- Tactics for Togetherness, 123 George St, Aberdeen, 3rd October - 31st October (exhibition/curatorial)
- Creative Mobile Unit, Amplify, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, May 2021-December 2022 (workshop series)
2020
- Haunted by the Ghost of a Flower, The Barn, Banchory, TT, 28th January - 4th April (exhibition & learning programme)
2019
- Tomma Rum, Silvermuseet, Arjeplog, Sweden, 5th - 13th August (exhibition & residency)
- LOVEAND.., Look Again, The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, TT, 7th - 16th June (exhibition)
- Nomad, 206, Aberdeen, 28th - 29th April (exhibition)
- Vapid, Languid, Limp and Lounging, Assembly House, Leeds, Curated by Caitlyn Main, 19th
April - 4th May (exhibition)
2018
- Future Currents, The Doing Group, Tramway Glasgow, 14th July (symposium)
- They Had Four Years, Generator Projects, Dundee, 19th May - 9th June (exhibition)
- The Air We Breathe, Torry, Aberdeen, 21st May - 11th September (event & exhibition)
- re·play, The Suttie Art Space, Grampian Hospital Art Trust, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary,
Aberdeen, 29th April - 24th June (exhibition)
- Commitment Issues, Sound of Others, sonADA, Aberdeen, TT, 22nd - 24th Feb
(screening/performance)
- Yet To Be, OT Projektraum, Berlin, Germany, 1st-3rd Feb (exhibiton)
Selected projects 2016 - 2017
- Future Proof, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (25th Nov-4th Feb)
- Speculative Excavations, Degree Show, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen (16th-23rd June) -
- Whatever Sticks, K u k u Klubi, Below Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (3rd-4th Feb)
- Dressed In Grey, SWG3, Glasgow (14th-17th July)
- Rapid, AU Gallery, ditiramb, Brunnengasse, Vienna (5th-6th Feb)
- Penultimate, Peacocks Visual Arts, Aberdeen (21st-23rd Jan)
Residencies
- AEG/na residency, Aegna, Tallinn, Estonia (2nd - 26th July 2024)
- On the commons: land, knowledge and practice workshop, NIDA Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania (23rd - 29th March 2024)
- Can Serrat, Winter-Spring Residency 2023, El Bruc, Catalunya (May-June 2023)
- Sculpting Resilience, Creative Learning, Aberdeen (December 2022)
- Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalifield, Arbroath (Summer/Autumn 2022)
- Creative Resilience Residency, Glasghieburn Primary School, Aberdeen, Creative Learning,
(Spring & Winter 2022)
- Philo/Feldenkrais learning programme, The Barn, Banchory, Scotland (2019)
- Tomma Rum Residency, Arjeplog, Sweden (Summer 2019)
- G101 x TT residency, Kaunas Lithuania, a-n travel bursary, (Summer 2019)
- Emerging Artist Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden (Summer 2018)
- Graduate in Residence, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen (2017-2018)
Curatorial projects
- Solidarity Screenings, Film screening programme of Palestinian artists moving image, various spaces across Tallinn Estonia and Aberdeen Scotland, with community.in.EKA.for.palestine and Tactics for Togetherness, 2023-2024
- Communal Powers Launch&Lunch (workshop), Tactics for Togetherness Studio, 2023
- Floppy hat and all that (exhibition), Artroom, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, 2022
- A score in Magdalena, (performative workshop), Carmen Wong and Angela Main, 2021
- Tactics for Togetherness (exhibition), Carmen Wong, Mae Diansangu, Natalie Kerr), Aberdeen,
2021
- Nymphaea Alba (producer/director), film with Elisabeth Schilling, Abby Quick, Aymee
Charleton, David Henderson, 2021
- Assembly (conference), a-n, Tendency Towards, 2019
- Support Structures (reading group), Kirsty Russell and Caroline Gausden (2019)
- A Room for a Handshake (exhibition), Stephanie Mann, Madeleine Hope-Fraser, Jack
McCombe, Tendency Towards, 2019
- Hot Take, (monthly travelling crit), Tendency Towards, 2019
- Selkie Skin (performance), Niko Wearden, The Worm PVA, 2018
- Gripping wrists (film screening and event), LUX Scotland, 2018
- Sticky Vectors (exhibition), Christopher MacInness, Tendency Towards, 2018
- Becoming Understood, Roos Dijkuizen, (workshop series, exhibition and event), Tendency
Towards, 2018
- Her feet are Talons; he hands are unclean (exhibition), Verity Birt, Tendency Towards, 2018
- Studio Visit (exhibition), 3 / 8 , Tendency Towards, 2018
- Fertiliser (exhibition), Cassia Dodman, Ailie Ormston, Anna Wachsmuth, Ellen Berns, Tendency
Towards, 2017
Public Talks / Reviews
- Our Creative Voice, Creative Scotland, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
- Life After Art School, lecture series, Grays School of Art, invited speaker (March 2020)
- Assembly Aberdeen, a-n conference series, organiser and facilitator (4 July 2019)
- Afterview, VLLaL review, May 2019
- Assembly Swansea, a-n conference series, invited participant in panel discussion (23 May
2019)
- The Skinny, Adam Benmakhlouf, They had Four Years, May 2018
- Fertile Grounds, Caroline Gausden review, May 2018
- Assembly Dundee, a-n conference series, invited participant in panel discussion (12 Oct 2018)
- Wish You Were Here, Oldmachar Academy/Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (26th Jan - 16th
Feb)
- Richard Taylor, A-n review, Fertiliser, Tendency Towards, November 2017
- Guest@Grays, invited lecture on artist-run-initiatives, with Tendency Towards (November
2017)
Awards/Grants/Scholarships
- Cultural Endownment of Estonia grant for Fine and Applied Arts, 2025
- Results based scholarship grant, Estonian Academy of Art, February 2024 - January 2025
- Erasmus+ Grant, Vilnius/Tromsø/Berlin/Nida/Vienna/Barcelona, 2023-2024
- Visual Artist Bursary, VACMA, 2023
- Aberdeen City Council Creative funding Award, [tactics for togetherness] 2022-2023
- Hope Scott Trust Grant, 2022
- Aberdeen City council Creative funding award, [individual] 2022
- Visual Artist Bursary, VACMA, 2021
- a-n travel bursary grant 2019
- Aberdeen City Council Creative funding Award, [tactics for togetherness] 2019
- Recent Graduate Visual Artist Bursary, VACMA, 2019
- Aberdeen City Council Creative funding Award, [Tendency Towards] 2018
- Aberdeen City Council Creative funding Award, [Tendency Towards] 2017
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