Megan Chapman

Primary Practice: Visual Artist - Painting & Drawing

Experience: Megan has over 25 years of visual arts experience as a painter, arts writer and blogger, vlogger, social media manager, co-artistic director, curator, gallery & studio manager and art mentor. 

“After engaging with the Scottish Artists Union through the learning programme, I was eager to participate in Rep Training. Through this additional involvement and training, I was able to find my place within the union. I am proud that I can utilise the variety of skills learned in rep training along with my experience in the arts to help benefit fellow Scottish Artists Union members.”

Megan was born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas, earned a BFA with honours in painting and drawing from the University of Oregon in the United States, and currently lives and works in Edinburgh.

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Tim is an artist in the Collins + Goto Studio, working at GSS in the Whiskey bond, Glasgow.  He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University; and an international associate of the RMIT Arts and Ecologies Research Network (AEGIS), in Melbourne Australia. Tim is also a board member of the Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve, in North Glasgow.  Interests include aesthetic and ethical ideas about our changing environment with a focus on how art shifts values in relationship to new ideas and experiences. Current work includes HAKOTO two new sculptural body instruments, that extend work on Plein Air (2010-2020) and move into a space of interdisciplinary public performance, opening up new empathic and aesthetic experiences with trees.  HAKOTO means leaf words, - leaf saying, - leaf things, - leaf incidents, - leaf songs. 

I joined the SAU in 2012. I asked to join the executive in 2023 while reading, writing and thinking about what it means to be an environmental artworker in the 21^st Century.

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As a member of the Scottish Artists Union, you will receive free insurance cover brokered by Hencilla Canworth. This is one of the many benefits you receive from being a union member.

All union members benefit from not only Product and Public Liability cover, but also Professional Indemnity cover. Here is some further information about the cover.

This is to confirm that we act as insurance intermediary for the above named and have arranged Public and Products Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance for all members that are domiciled within the United Kingdom, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Details of the policy are summarised below:

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Art Form:  Printmaking, Painting & Sculpture

Work in the Arts: Jodi completed a Masters in Fine Art Practice and a PG Cert in Higher Education Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines at Glasgow School of Art. She has worked in printmaking studios in France and Scotland.

She was previously the etching technician and collaborative master printmaker at Edinburgh Printmakers, a lithography technician at Glasgow School of Art, and has taught on the visiting lecturer program at Die Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in public collections including those of The Royal Scottish Academy, Herron Art Library at Purdue University, and Iraq National Library. Jodi currently lives in Aberdeen where she has set up a small stone lithography studio.

"My background working in fine art in publicly-funded organisations and higher education as well as a freelance artist has driven home to me the urgent necessity of securing better working conditions for arts workers and graduating art students. By working with the Scottish Artists Union I hope to assist in bettering conditions for artists and strengthening the arts sector as a whole. At the same time, I am tremendously inspired by my fellow union members and grateful to be part of a community of imaginative and engaged artists."

 

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Work in the Arts: Rosa is a Glasgow based artist, writer and performance poet. Her practise uses cut and paste methods interwoven with anecdotes to create relatable narratives often regarding issues faced by workers in precarious industries. She has performed at a wide array of events and exhibitions in Scotland, including a poetry showcase with the BBC’s “words first” as well as multiple events organised by various trade unions. Rosa enjoys working as part of a collective and has participated in a number of collaborative projects.

“Collectivism and collaboration is often at the route of what I do, and this is one of the biggest reasons I wanted to join. I believe strongly that art is work and it’s vital that all workers have a voice.”

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The Scottish Artists Union previously launched our Fair Work Contract for our members, sign up to show your support for our campaign to ensure every artist gets paid fairly for the work they do.