︎ gentian rhosa (meikleham)
Artist, writer & organiser working with sound, text, performance and listening
b. Dundee 1990 · rhosagentian[at]gmail.com
My practice begins with listening: to voices, environments, and to processes that unfold slowly or are often avoided—grief, decay, collapse. I work across sound, writing and installation, allowing each medium to inform the others. Writing operates as score and residue; sound functions as a relational force that structures time, attention and intimacy; voice mediates in-between.
In recent years, my research has focused on ‘de-composition’—understood both as material decay and as a loosening of fixed forms of knowledge and subjectivity. This inquiry emerged through personal loss and has expanded toward ecological and collective questions: what happens when we stay with breakdown rather than rush toward fixing? What kinds of knowledge emerge through rot, disintegration and a refusal of productivity? What understanding might appear from mess, ambiguity and uncertainty?
Education
2023 · MLitt Creative Writing (Distinction), University of Glasgow, Scotland
2019 · MA Fine Art, KMD, Bergen University, Norway
2016 · BA Art, Philosophy & Contemporary Practices (First Class), DJCAD, Dundee University, Scotland
Selected Solo & Two-Person Projects
2025 · Waterfall Tongue, USF Visningsrommet, Bergen, Norway
2025 · Body De—, Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 · Feral Tongues, Isotop Project Space, Bergen, Norway
2023 · O’ Echo of the Primordial Howl, Studio 17, Stavanger, Norway
2022 · Radical Sympathy, Social Listening, Kunstradio, Vienna
2019-2021 · love is, public text project, Palmera Gallery, Bergen, Norway
Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances
2025 · My Voice Is A Resting Place, Listen Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 · Grief Listens, Listen Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2022 · Social Listening, Kunstradio, Vienna, Austria
2022 · Kalla, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen, Norway
2022 · Performance Lecture, The Pirate Academy, KMD, Bergen, Norway
Works for Radio
2025 · Lunga Radio School, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2022 · Social Listening, Kunstradio, Vienna, Austria
2021 · aerial X Rummur radio, Verse Libre & Bergen Krinkaster, Bergen, Norway
2020 · You Say Pause Radio Station, Hordaland Kunstenter, Bergen, Norway
Residencies
2026 · (Upcoming) Hospitalfield Interdiscliplinary Residency, Arbroath, Scotland
2026 · (Upcoming) Mustarinda Ecotones Residency, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2025 · Market Gallery Carers Studio Residency, Glasgow, Scotland
2023 · Field Kitchen Academy, Brandenburg, Germany
2016 · Hospitalfield Graduate Residency, Arbroath, Scotland
Published Text
2027 · (Upcoming) · Shadow (Book-length hybrid essay) Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, Germany
2025 · One poem, Wetgrain Journal, Glasgow, Scotland
2025 · Three poems, AFK, Spam Press, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 · One poem, Trying Notations, Text for Rosie Roberts Exhibition, Glasgow Project Room, Scotland
2023 · Three Poems, From Glasgow to Saturn, Glasgow, Scotland
Workshops, Collective & Organisational Practice
2025 · Say Something Back, writing workshop, Listen Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2024 · Overhearing, a listening workshop with clara hancock, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
2023 · Co-organiser, The Listening Biennial, Listen Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2019-2021 · Founder & organiser, Aerial Socially Engaged Arts, Bergen, Norway
2019-2021 · Organiser of After School Special, Bergen, Norway
2016-2017 · Committee Member, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland
Selected Professional Experience
2022 · Assistant Organiser, The Listening Academy, Eklectik, London, UK
2019-2021 · Assistant Lecturer & Research Assistant, University of Bergen, Norway
2017-2019 · Lecture Programmer, Monday Lectures, KMD, University of Bergen, Norway
2015-2017 · Mental Health Arts Worker, Art Angel, Dundee, Scotland