Developing work as part of a long-term residency with the festival, Moira Salt and Olivia Priya Foster are the first awardees of EAF’s reimagined PLATFORM opportunity for early career artists.

Moira Salt is a trans-disciplinary artist, working fluidly across film, sound, performance, textiles, and text, chasing diasporic belonging and myths of her ancestry through water, land, and body. Olivia Priya Foster is an interdisciplinary artist exploring rurality in Scotland through the lens of their South Asian and Scottish heritage, navigating questions of cultural identity, belonging, and place.

Both artists will use 2026 for in-depth, behind-the-scenes development, before showcasing their new work in a festival exhibition in 2027.

About PLATFORM

2026 debuts a reimagined PLATFORM award, an evolution of EAF’s longstanding programme supporting early-career artists. This new iteration responds to the changing landscape of visual arts in Scotland, offering more expansive, sustainable support.

Artists work with the festival over an 18-month period, developing their practice with the time, space, and security to explore, including through an in person residency at the Hugo Burge Foundation.

Supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Idlewild Trust, the Hugo Burge Foundation and Scottish Government’s EXPO Fund.