Yvette Bathgate and Jake Shepherd (EE/UK) are an artist duo, based in Estonia. Their practice explores collaborative models of production and labours of care. For over 7 years they have worked as social practitioners within contexts of education, the NHS, social care, art galleries and community-groups across the north-east of Scotland. Working alongside the existing communities of Seyðisfjörður, during their residency at Skaftfell, they will build a collective sculpture, exploring ideas of expanded collaboration. Producing an exhibition that includes the voices of this community, directly linking the education and exhibition aspects of the organisation, in creating a collaborative work that speaks of these relationships, and the care and tenderness that has come before us to build them.
Yvette Bathgate and Jake Shepherd (EE/UK) are supported by Nordic Council of Ministers’ Culture and Art Programme.
