Artist Residency Programme

About the host

Llenyddiaeth Cymru | Literature Wales is a charity dedicated to supporting writers at every stage of their journey. They have extensive experience of hosting writers at Tŷ Newydd, their headquarters and Wales' National Writing Centre.

Tetiana (Tania) Rodionova – Ukraine

Tania Rodionova was born in 1990 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. She is a translator, poet, and curator and manager of cultural projects. Tania is the founder of the VERBatsiya translation group and the director of the TRANSLATORIUM Literary and Translation Festival. Since 2022, she has been the head of the NGO of the same name. In 2023, she established the BAZHAN residency in Kamianets-Podilskyi for poets and translators, where she also serves as curator.

Her published translations include works by Timothy Snyder, Dorothee Richter, Pascal Gielen and Maksym Eristavi. Alongside the VERBatsiya translation group, she has translated poetry by American Beat Generation poets and poems by the Latvian text group Orbita. Since 2022, she has been actively translating Ukrainian war poetry into English. Some of her own poems have been translated into English, German, French, Polish and Lithuanian. She currently lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Tetiana's residency takes place October – November 2025.

About the host

Ulster University is the UK and Ireland's University of the Year 2025. The Belfast campus is home to the Belfast School of Art, the oldest School of Art on the island of Ireland, which celebrated its 175th Anniversary in 2024. It also hosts Ulster Presents – a civic arts programme of local and international artists' work across Northern Ireland.

Anastasiya Gruba – Ukraine

Anastasiya Gruba is a Ukrainian screenwriter and director from Kyiv. She graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television with a degree in Film and Television. Since 2017, Anastasiya has been a member of the NGO CUC. She is the screenwriter and co-writer of several Ukrainian feature films, documentaries and television series.

Anastasiya has also participated in prestigious programmes such as the European Short Pitch, Munich Film Up and the Global Media Makers LA Residency. Her feature film project was showcased at the Ukraine in Focus pitching session during the Marché du Film in 2023 and at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market in 2024. Additionally, her debut short film, Driving Lessons, was nominated by the Ukrainian Film Academy for Best Short Film of the Year at the Golden Dzyga Awards 2025.

Anastasiya's residency takes place October – November 2025.

About the host

Cove Park is an international residency based on an outstanding 50-acre rural site in Argyll on Scotland's west coast. Its programme of residencies, commissions and collaborative projects respond to and promote the diversity of contemporary artistic practice. Cove Park supports artists, creative practitioners and researchers to develop and produce ambitious, innovative and ground-breaking new work.

Yasmine Rifaii – Lebanon

Yasmine Rifaii is an artist born in 1995 from El Mina, Lebanon. Her work spans editorial, curatorial, architectural and visual art disciplines. Yasmine is the Creative Director of Haven for Artists, a Beirut-based feminist cultural organisation dedicated to knowledge production through exhibitions, publications, and a growing international artist network. She is also the co-founder of Al Hayya, a print magazine and online platform dedicated to Arab women, where she served as Editorial Director and Co-Creative Director for issues 1 through 4, which featured contributions from hundreds of voices.

Care is central to her practice, both as a guiding principle and a field of exploration, shaping her understanding of how we relate to one another, to art, and to the collective. Her most recent work is a publication titled I will always be looking for you - A Queer Anthology on Arab Art, co-edited with Nadim El Choufi and published by Haven for Artists. The anthology brings together the work of 31 visual artists and 24 commissioned writers from the Arab speaking world and its diaspora, foregrounding queer subjectivities within Arab artistic discourse.

Yasmine's residency takes place October – November 2025.

About the host

The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness was founded in 1979 to provide a home for a world class collection of British fine art donated to the people of Orkney. The Centre's ambitious programme of exhibitions, learning activities and residencies supports its mission to provide inspirational and barrier-free opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy, explore, define and create art. Linkshouse – Orkney Arts Residency offers a spectacular location for creative endeavour in a unique historic and natural environment.

Dina Hashem – Yemen

Dina Hashem is an architect and visual artist. Working across multimedia, her practice explores themes of identity, belonging and the embodiment of societal issues, interrogating the impact of collective consciousness on local identity and the transformations of coexistence and adaptation in personal experience. She merges abstract painting, photography and installation art.

Among her cultural projects is The Traditional Women's Attire of Yemen booklet. She was awarded an artistic residency at Al-Riwaq Art Space supported by UNESCO, where she produced a series examining the human experience's role in shaping coexistence and adaptation. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Germany.

Dina's residency takes place in November 2025.

Moniack Mhor is the only dedicated residential creative writing centre in Scotland. The organisation enables people of all ages, abilities and walks of life to access and celebrate literary activity, placing equality and accessibility at the heart of its work.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is a visual arts organisation dedicated to supporting artistic production, research and public engagement. During residencies, artists receive comprehensive support from dedicated staff and have full access to workshop facilities with guidance from skilled technical team members.

London-based charity Acme has been supporting artists in need since 1972. Acme is the single largest provider of permanent affordable artist studios in England, supporting over 800 individual artists across 16 buildings in Greater London each year.

Founded in 2007, Delfina Foundation promotes artistic exchange and experimentation. They create opportunities for emerging and established artists, curators and writers to reflect on their practice, position their work within relevant global discourse, create career-defining research and commissions, and network with colleagues.

Set in an architecturally significant building in Gateshead, on the banks of the River Tyne, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is the UK's largest non-collecting contemporary art institution. Baltic delivers free exhibitions, artist residencies, public programmes and learning activities in a fully accessible building.