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Upstart – How to: Write About What Matters

How do you put your creative practice into words? From artist bios and statements to proposals and everything in between, writing is a big part of sharing your work

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore ways to write about what matters most to you—what’s important, and how to refine it through editing.

Through playful writing and thinking experiments—done individually, collaboratively, and in conversation—you’ll build tools to communicate your creative work with clarity and confidence.

Whether you’re an artist, designer, student, or simply curious, this session is a chance to practice finding your voice, exchange ideas, and discover fresh approaches to writing.

No experience needed—just bring your curiosity and an open mind.

Wednesday 5 November 2025

15.00 – 17.00

Weston Studio

Free, booking required

Alison Scott and Rosie Roberts are friends and an artist-writing duo, working under the moniker again+again. In our collaborative practice, we are interested in the material and social relations between art writing, audio-visual work, and facilitation. Working together, we form a discursive partnership to provoke and enable each other to make work with presence and integrity. Their work comes from an intersectional, socially engaged, anti-capitalist and feminist perspective.

Recently our collaborative efforts have been focussed on supporting other artists’ work in an editorial or supportive capacity, working with organisations such as MAP Magazine, In Session FKA Gradjob, and as well as with art students at Edinburgh College of Art. We have also presented our collaborative work with Radiophrenia, Market Gallery, No Bounds Radio, and Glasgow Open House. Our editorial and facilitation work aims to allow those we engage with to think expansively and experimentally about the shape of their work: to think about what writing – the act and the outcome – could mean for their practice without inflicting binaries between art, writing and criticism.

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