Julie Brook RSA (Elect)
During the last General Assembly meeting, our Members elected five new Academicians: Julie Brook, Anna Geerdes, Moyna Flannigan, Denise Bennetts and Eilidh Henderson.
Julie Brook RSA (Elect) is a British artist based in northwest Scotland who makes sculptural works in the landscape. Over the last decade she has been making work in stone and marble quarries in Japan, Cumbria and Italy. Her work often acts as a means for experiencing the more transient and invisible forces fundamental to our existence - light and darkness, tides and gravity, time and the four elements. It is these fleeting and cyclical moments that lie at the core of her practice.
Anna Geerdes RSA (Elect) was born in the Netherlands and moved to Hoy, Orkney in 1991. She studied at Gray’s School of Art before moving to Glasgow, where she lived and worked for ten years. Anna recently moved back to Hoy to live in an abandoned cottage, as yet without electricity or even a road. It is here that she has chosen to carve out a home for herself and her art, with the stark landscape providing inspiration for her paintings.
Moyna Flannigan RSA (Elect) was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife in 1963 and lives and works in Edinburgh. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and was awarded her Master of Fine Art degree from Yale University School of Art, New Haven in 1987. She lectured in Painting at the Glasgow School of Art and has taught at ECA since 2015.
Denise Bennetts RSA (Elect) co-founded Bennetts Associates in 1987 with her partner Rab Bennetts, playing a strategic role in the overall design direction of the practice. She has been involved across the practice’s wide range of award-winning and highly sustainable projects including major headquarters and City office developments, theatres and hotels. She is a respected architectural critic, an assessor for several awards schemes and until 2023, she was chair of the RIBA National and International Awards Group.
Eilidh Henderson RSA (Elect) has over 20 years of experience at Page\Park. She has been a practice Director since 2018, and was awarded RIAS Emerging Architect of the Year in the same year. Over the last 5-10 years, in parallel with her business leadership role, she has led strategic and capital projects in a wide range of sectors, with a focus and keen interest in placemaking and settings for culture and communities. Her experience ranges from working with grassroots community groups to national organisations, both in Scotland and further afield.
