Our Committee
SaltSpace was founded by students and graduates of Glasgow School of Art. Since 2019, our committee has continuously grown and reformed, giving artists from a range of backgrounds opportunities to learn the skills of running a non-profit community interest company.
As a cooperative with a democratic constitution, we have a non hierarchical group of committee members. We hold regular meetings so that our decision making is a collective process and the running of SaltSpace involves everyone.
Hannah Kate Absalom
Hannah Kate Absalom (b.1998, she/they) is a visual artist originally from Northumberland, and currently based between Glasgow and London. Absalom studied Painting & Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art achieving a First Class BaHons in 2020, and is currently studying their MAFA at Central Saint Martins (2022-2024). Absalom has been a committee member of Saltspace Cooperative since 2021, and became a co-Director in 2023. Absalom's main role within SaltSpace has been focused on marketing, social media and gallery programming. In 2023 she co-founded the artist collective FLESH TIDE GHOST. Absalom’s practice is a surreal, camp and grotesque reflection of the relationship between queerness, horror, domesticity and iconography. Through the mediums of oil-painting, printmaking, installation and moving-image the artist blends the sacred, the medieval and Science-Fiction, lending from the camp and overly-saturated graphics of classic horror and Sci-Fi. Absalom approaches the flesh as a site of bodily horror, comedic relief and intimacy, placing equal value on each factor. The queer body becomes the uncanny within the work of the artist; the domestic is challenged and the homely is transmogrified into the unheimlich. Within the surreal, fictional worlds, characters and motifs drift from one work to another, like the merging and blurring boundaries of narratives and imagery within dreams. Absalom queers landscapes and characters to concoct an image both camp and macabre; the imagery used can often be unsettling, disturbing and hypnotic in its blending of dream and dogma. The painterly and the cinematic meet in Absalom’s moving-image work which often imitates the style of German Expressionism and matte painted sets, leaning into the Lo-Fi and humorously exploiting the limits of her methods of video-making. The artist does not intend to make works entirely independent of one another, but rather, through an act of world building often accompanied by auto-fictional assembled texts, creates spaces, sites of ritual and mysticism in which artworks and their means of display melt off the gallery walls and become semi-sculptural, installational works within theatrical and cinematic sets.
Aurelie Chan Hon Sen
Aurelie Chan Hon Sen is a Mauritian arts professional and graphic designer working in media and communications across both the creative and financial sectors in Scotland and the wider UK. She currently serves as the Digital Content and Marketing Manager at Black Women in Asset Management, where she leads on digital strategy, content creation, and brand storytelling. She joined SaltSpace Cooperative as a committee member in December 2023. With a strong commitment to the cultural sector, Aurelie specialises in visual storytelling, producing digital and print promotional materials for artistic and community-focused initiatives. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice explores themes of diaspora, memory, and identity, expressed through woodwork, illustration, and writing. She exhibited at Glasgow Print Studio as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2024, and her writing has appeared in The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing, Edition 4 (2023); Tar Press Journal, Summer 2024; and "A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time: Work on Conversation”, edited by Laura Haynes and Kate Briggs (The Yellow Paper Press, UK: Glasgow, 2025). Additionally, Aurelie is the Board Secretary at Be United, a charitable organisation in Edinburgh which advocates for, nurtures and champions Black creatives.
Evie Frances Brown
Evie Frances Brown (she/they) is an artist, illustrator and graduate of the University of Edinburgh, with a Master of Art Degree in Architecture (Hons), now living and working in Glasgow. Returning to Glasgow after her degree, Evie returned to her long time passion of painting and making, and now runs their own small art business Sad Eyes Studio. Evie's work draws from the whimsical, the bold and the heartfelt, blending playful imagery with meaningful messages. She joined the Saltspace collective in 2022 and then the Committee in the Summer of 2023, hoping to help others, and herself, benefit from the rich artistic community within Glasgow. She currently works in the Department A studio in the same Dornoch Street building as the Saltspace Makers Spaces.
Holly Osborne
Holly Osborne is a Glasgow-based visual artist who graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from GSA in 2018. Through painting, ceramics, and illustration, she explores stereotypes, ideals, and mundanity through staged, awkward figures sourced from contemporary materials like stock photos and social media as well as religious imagery and vintage knitting patterns. She also runs a small business, creating wrapping paper, cards, and tea towels, bringing her disquieting humour to a wider audience. After graduating, she returned to her hometown of Dingwall, where she contributed as a committee member at Circus Artspace from 2019 to 2021, aiding in the development and execution of their exhibitions and events programme. On returning to Glasgow in January 2022, she joined the SaltSpace committee, becoming a director in May 2022 and has been actively involved in the day-to-day administration, marketing, business development and funding applications. She is passionate about the ethos of SaltSpace and bringing opportunities to our member base.
Susan Torrance
Susan Torrance is a practicing visual artist based in Glasgow, having graduated in 2021 from GSA in Painting and Printmaking and in 2023 from the University of the Highlands and Islands with an MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology. They went back to art school as a mature student, having previously qualified as a Scottish solicitor and after a professional life in affordable housing construction and delivery. Within Saltspace, they joined the Committee in 2023 and they have played a key role in developing the new business plan development and funding applications.
Paula Doherty
Paula Doherty is an interdisciplinary artist and maker based in Glasgow. Her practice focuses on interactive and collaborative works using sculpture, ceramics, and performative actions to explore the intersection of queerness in nature and humanity, examining hierarchy and how queer theory reshapes our understanding of the natural world. Doherty has a BA in Sculpture and Environmental Art from The Glasgow School of Art (2018) and studied Post Conceptual Art under Marina Gržinić at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2016). She undertook the Graduate Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2019, culminating in exhibition (‘Artefact or Artifact’ with Matt Zurowski (January 2020). Since then, Doherty has exhibited as part of Art Walk Porty (2021) and Glasgow Open House Art Festival (2021), and other exhibitions include ‘Lamenting Mud’ (Salt Space Cooperative Gallery, 2022) and PLUME (with Coral Brookes and Rachel Stanley, Crownpoint Project Space, 2023). Since 2021, she has facilitated arts and ceramics workshops for initiatives including Govanhill Baths, Art Space G41, BAAT Region 15 and Wild Gorse Pottery. Doherty has completed Glasgow Connected Arts Network’s Participatory Art Short Course (2021). Paula also works under pseudonym ‘rubber glove ceramics’ for her maker’s practice.
Amy Iona
Amy Iona is a lens-based artist, researcher and creative facilitator. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a First Class Honours in 2020 and was awarded the inaugural Baillie Gifford Creativity, Inclusivity & the Virtual award to support a year of research at the University of Glasgow, developing frameworks for access and inclusion in the creative industries. She is interested in facilitating encounters with art outwith the white cube, and contributing to projects which foster collaboration and collective care. Amy is particularly interested in how relationships between people and nature are impacted by social and cultural identity, explored through photographic objects and alternative processes. Her work is heavily informed by Scottish folklore, esotericism and queer feminist theory.
Erin Russo
Erin Russo is an art historian and curator based in Glasgow. Her practice is often collaborative and considers how documentation can authentically and comprehensively represent artistic intent in performance. Owing to performance’s ephemeral nature, this collaboration frequently explores alternative methods and techniques for documentation, resulting in richer, more intentional, and at times artistic outputs. Erin has a BA in Art History & Visual Culture from Franklin University Switzerland, an MSc in Museum Studies from the University of Glasgow, and an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from GSA. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, her research focuses on the potential for expanded performance art documentation in nuanced reimagining of performance art histories. She joined the Saltspace Committee in 2025, with an aim to support emerging artists in Glasgow through her interest in artist and network-led collaboration and her background in charity administration and grant funding.