Opened 31 May 2025

collaborative exhibition by Nicola Singh, gentian rhosa and Eo Stearn, curated by Mattie Roberts and supported by Listen Gallery. With live activation performance by Carle Gent and Eo Stearn

This iterative project explores our societal awareness and capacity for grief and healing, spiritual connection and resistance in the face of continued global, structural violences. Drawing on the use of voice and song in ritual devotion, healing, communal labour and grief practices my voice is a resting place is an invitation to listen and think through these ideas together.

All three artists work with different approaches, across a range of practices and reference points, while all employing cycles and repetition of their own voice.

Artists:

Dr Nicola Singh is a British-Punjabi artist working across performance art, experimental new music, visual art and somatics. She explores the subjective and socially determined complexities between voice and body - and the ways in which sound, language and aesthetics compound/disorient this relationship.

Her current research explores the role of sound, listening and language in ritualistic, transcendental, and spiritual experiences relative to South Asian origins. This is underscored by Singh’s training in Dhrupad (North Indian classical music), Yogic Sciences, Sound Healing and the Sanskrit alphabet.

Her practice also incorporates film, sculpture, movement practices and pre and post performance drawings. Singh often works in collaborative, workshop settings to develop visual artworks.

Selected commissions include SPACE Studio (India), Tetley Gallery (UK), Cinenova & CCA Brighton (UK), David Dale Gallery (Scotland), Workplace Gallery (UK), Eastside Projects (UK), Hongti Art Centre (South Korea), Jerwood Visual Arts (UK) and BALTIC (UK). She has been resident artist at Porthmeor Studios (UK), La Bonne (Spain), Hospitalfields (Scotland) and Art House (UK). Her work has been acquired by the Government Art Collection (2021).

Nicola is associate-artist with Migrants in Culture, board member of Ubuntu Women Shelter and is the 2025 - 2026 Adrian Piper Research Fellow. She has a practice-led PhD in Performance Writing (Northumbria University 2017) and teaches internationally.

Eothen Stearn (born 1987, UK), lives and works in Glasgow. She has an MA from The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a BA from Goldsmiths University, London and in between these attended The School of the Damned. She has performed at UK festivals Radiophrenia, Supernormal, BUZZCUT Double Thrills and at Jupiter Artland.

Eo is a visual artist who uses sound and sculpture, often working with textiles. She is currently working on a R&D project  Material songs, a queer synthesis exploration, looking at combining sonic and textile works together taking inspiration from protest songs, Waulking songs and Puirt à beul for “tunes from a mouth."

Eo has also exhibited internationally, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, having recently published a poetry pamphlet, The weather and the tides are changeable like people's minds (2025) with Short Pieces That Move! At Sissi Club, Marseille, France in the solo exhibition Zygote (2024) and at Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France in the group exhibition, La clinique du queer (2020).

Eo has exhibited in the UK at the Talbot Rice Gallery, in Edinburgh, in the group exhibitions, "Meet me at the threshold (2022) and in The Freelands Foundation, London, in group exhibition, Aggregate (2022).

Recent residencies include: Bothy Project, Isle of Eigg, Talbot Rice Resident, Edinburgh, Triangle France - Astérides in Marseille, Creative LAB in Glasgow and Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire.

In conjunction with her art practice, Eo plays in the band NIGHTSHIFT who are signed with the Chicago record label, Trouble in Mind.

Adjacent to her visual arts and music practice she is a community and youth worker.

gentian rhosa is an artist and writer working with sound, text and performance. Their practice takes shape through  public text, publications, sound installation, radio, performance and video. Rooted in personal experiences of loss, their  long-term interests include  death, absence, grief and psychology. Recently, their exploration of these themes has extended into broader socio-political concerns such as public mourning, climate collapse and the privatisation of grief —  considering where death, grief and emotional life rub up against culture, capitalism and history.

gentian has recently presented ‘Body De’ at Market Gallery Glasgow developed during the Market Caregivers Studio Residency. They also exhibited in Waterfall Tongue, a collaborative exhibition with Tinja Ruusuvuori at USF Bergen.

gentian has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and an MA Fine Art, KMD, University of Bergen, Norway. gentian has also been a producer for the Listening Biennial, is a founder and organiser of Aerial, socially engaged arts, Bergen, Norway, Producer & Editor of speakerspeaker, bi-yearly publication & podcast.

This project was curated by Mattie May Roberts and funded by creative scotland.