Yvette Bathgate and Jake Shepherd
Artist Duo based in Aberdeen, Scotland

Our practice is rooted in collaboration, within the duo and throughout the community groups we each support, co-creation, agency, generosity and tenderness are the integral threads that bind our creative practices. The material outcomes are a result of the explorations, documentation, and questioning of the context of this work and the theory that surrounds it. In this, we consider issues of emotional labour, education, working methods and structures, interconnected ecological networks, intersectionality, systems of power and decision making, and embodying radical slowness/softness. We understand that this work is political and that politics of care cannot be untangled from wider social underpinnings.