Based in: Scotland

Supported: Glasgow Urban Lab

Jamie Wardrop is a Scotland-based artist whose practice brings together data, community knowledge and creative facilitation to help people experience rivers as complex living systems. Through Turning the Tide in Renfrewshire, Jamie focused on the White Cart and its connection to the wider Clyde bioregion, combining scientific research with participatory engagement.

Jamie’s residency for From the Cart to the Clyde began with a listening phase, including field visits and interviews with scientists, conservation practitioners and local residents. This research informed an interactive installation using live river and rainfall data, translated into a shared tabletop projection that invited collective exploration rather than passive viewing. The work formed the centrepiece of guided workshops where participants reflected on flooding, pollution, biodiversity and land use through both analytical and sensory approaches.

By integrating water sampling, mapping and conversation, Jamie created space for community insight to sit alongside scientific understanding. His practice emphasises dialogue over spectacle, encouraging people to move beyond abstract climate data and towards relational ways of knowing place.

Turning the Tide enabled Jamie to situate this locally rooted work within a wider European context, strengthening connections between creative practice, environmental research and cultural planning. Jamie continues to develop participatory projects that foreground listening, shared learning and collective responsibility for river health across Scotland.