Paisley has been the home to the first LEGACY project for Jupiter +.

By turning the learning space into an Artist’s Studio, we have been able to award, through a competitive process, a 6 month residency to 3 talented, recently graduated artists from Paisley.

The residency not only supports the full costs of the studio for 6 months but also provides a monthly ‘making’ stipend for materials. A mentoring programme with artists and members of the Jupiter Team is the backbone of the residency. This is designed to midwife young creatives through the challenging moments that so often characterise an early career in the arts.

For 2025 we have had 3 extraordinary individuals who have embraced all the opportunities this residency offers. Threshold, the exhibition that has taken over the studio space has been designed and curated by the residents. There are exquisite contemplative works that have been developed throughout the residency, it will be exciting to follow the residents’ careers as they develop.

THRESHOLD opens June 13th until June 22nd at 23 High Street, Unit A Paisley Centre, Paisley.

Jupiter+ Paisley Legacy

About the artists

Erical McCracken

Erical McCracken studied Intermedia at Edinburgh College of Art, and cultivates a multidisciplinary, process-led, experimental practice. She works intuitively with easily accessible, found materials such as cardboard, wood, fabric, waste plastic and sound. Sustainability and resourcefulness are important values in her practice, where she aims to elevate the status of these materials by care and attention to detail. She takes an immersive, ‘punk’ approach, deconstructing and sometimes destroying found objects to convert them back into raw material.

In 2023 she was commissioned by Bipolar Edinburgh as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, and in 2024 she had a joint exhibition with Lucy Mulholland at 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast.

Erical has a background in Performance and has worked with artists including Jian Yi, Leah Capaldi, Alex Hetherington and Charlie Hackett. Her film ‘zoom’ was screened as part of Aideen Barry’s ‘Field Test’ in 2020. She spent a semester at Iceland University of the Arts during the pandemic, and her degree show won awards from the RSA and SSA.

She will begin a Masters programme in Performance at Central Saint Martins in September.

Hannah Turner

Hannah Turner is a photographer whose work delicately explores the intersections of time, memory, and movement. Deeply inspired by tangible remnants of the past—such as postcards, newspapers, and archival ephemera—her images evoke a sense of both presence and absence, capturing moments that are simultaneously intimate and expansive.

Rooted in a traditional yet timeless visual language, Turner gravitates toward symmetry, linear perspective, and the subtle emergence of text within landscapes. Her photographs are never merely static images; they function as portals, transporting viewers into the emotional and historical depth of a single, unrepeatable moment.

Turner earned a First Class BA Honours with distinction in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art. She was also the recipient of the Alice Duncan Travel Award. Following her studies, she began exhibiting her work within her local community in collaboration with the council’s heritage and cultural centres.

Her practice now closely aligns with her travels, reflecting her passion for exploring and engaging with different cultures. She has recently completed photographic journeys through Portugal, Poland, and Macedonia—capturing the essence of place and the layered stories found within foreign landscapes.

Luke Shand

Luke Shand seeks to reanimate queer histories through their artistic practice. Using painting and installation, queer histories are reactivated through processes that bring together existing archival materials and auto-fictional elements. Shand’s work attempts to enmesh remnants of the autobiographical with archival relics to inform new understandings of queer histories. He Frankenstein’s together queer, Scottish, and personal histories into congealed fragments. This is funnelled through the genre of horror as a strategy to challenge misrepresentation of the monstrous queer, and to ultimately surface the underlying queer intimacy. The work critiques the neglect of queer ephemera in institutional collections.

Luke Shand studied at the Glasgow School of Art earning a First Class BA Honours in Painting and Printmaking, followed by a Distinction within the School’s MLitt Fine Art Practice course. Since graduating Shand was the recipient of the SSA New Graduate Award and has worked with curatorial group 16 Collective on their “Queering Public Space” Residency programme.