Entry Type

Members-only

About Marchmont Makers Foundation

Marchmont Makers Foundation has recently been renamed as the Hugo Burge Foundation.  The charity runs creative spaces in a number of locations including the Marchmont Estate which support artists to become financially sustainable along with projects that inspire art in the community, schools and the next generation.

Their key focus areas for supporting artists are:

  • Funded residencies in the Marchmont Studios.
  • Providing opportunities and places to nurture creativity in the local community via schools and young people as well as social enterprise.
  • Enabling access to creative opportunities that would not otherwise happen both in Scotland and across the UK
  • Delivering a programme of workshops, classes and other opportunities for everyone to access creative skills.
Find out more about the Hugo Burge Foundation

About the Residency

The Hugo Burge Foundation are offering a Marchmont House residency opportunity in partnership with the Royal Society of Sculptors. One Royal Society of Sculptors member will be selected to participate in a month long residency based at the Tower Studio. Onsite Hobbit Pod accommodation will also be available for the artist and one other for the duration of the residency.

The residency will run from 10 April until 8 May 2024 inclusively.

The successful artist will receive a £350 per week stipend and £500 towards travel costs (receipts will need to be provided). The residency is funded by the Hugo Burge Foundation.

The chosen recipient of the residency will respond to Marchmont, either the House or the natural environment in a way that inspires them or helps develop their current practice. Applications need to show Persuasion, Inspiration and Purpose and will be measured against:

  • Quality and Excellence
  • Open Opportunity based on talent
  • Create life changing/long term or significant impact
  • Create an opportunity that might not otherwise exist

How to Apply

Applications for the Marchmont House Residency 2024 are now open.

Apply now via ArtOpps

Current Winners

Current Winner

Billie Bond MRSS

We are pleased to announce the winner of Marchmont House residency, Berwickshire, Scotland. Billie Bond MRSS was selected for the 2023 residency from a high quality pool of applications from members of the Society.

In fact the competition judges were so impressed by the applications that they also granted a second, shorter residency to David Aston MRSS. David, responding to the history of the house, gardens and estate and using the historical fragments, geology and remnants found on site, plans to create a site-specific version of his Pergamon series for Marchmont House.

Read about Billie
Sculptor Billie Bond in her studio
The human form, in particular the portrait, and a compulsive enquiry of matter, fuels my creativity, often using a material’s history or experience to lead a figurative sculptural investigation. My work is concerned with identity, revealing the concealed, exposing the discarded, the overlooked and forgotten.

This funded residency award at Marchmont House will be a great opportunity to develop these ideas by searching for something hidden, lost or forgotten within the Estate. Exploring a loft-space, cellar, behind a wall or beneath the grass, in search of historic artefacts to inform a contemporary outcome and bringing a voice to something that would otherwise remain silent.

I am excited about the idea of meeting and learning from the other artists and historians onsite as well as the getting inspiration from the hidden corners of the Marchmont Estate; allowing time for contemplation; reimagination and an opportunity to leave something at Marchmont House that was not there before.

Billie Bond MRSS