Mount Stuart

Dr. Morven Gregor is the Curator of Contemporary and Learning for Mount Stuart Trust, on the Isle of Bute, where she has lived since 2016. She has worked on exhibitions by Christine Borland, Martin Boyce, Ilana Halperin, Alberta Whittle, Steven Claydon and Abbas Akhavan. As well as performances and exhibitions by Monster Chetwynd, Sekai Machache, Rhona Warwick Paterson & Eve Mutso and Linder. Since its inception in 2018, she has overseen Mount Stuart’s Emerging Artist Residency in Socially Engaged Practice. In 2023, she completed her PhD at Glasgow School of Art, examining social collecting practices. Her published work includes papers, essays and photography and co-editing Mount Stuart Trust publications for Martin Boyce, Abbas Akhavan, Christine Borland and Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way. Last year, she was one of the cohort of Scottish curators receiving a travel grant from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to make a research trip to the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Mount Stuart is an extraordinary Neo-Gothic mansion on the Isle of Bute. Since 2001, this unorthodox building has provided both the inspiration and location for an acclaimed Contemporary Visual Arts Programme. The Programme enables the Trust to promote and facilitate interest in the contemporary visual arts and bring exhibitions of international standard to Bute and Argyll. Each exhibition is complemented by a programme of events, publications and educational activities. Exhibiting artists have included Martin Boyce, Ilana Halperin, Sekai Machache, Monster Chetwynd, Martin Boyce, Abbas Akhavan and Christine Borland.  Mount Stuart’s Contemporary Visual Arts Programme is supported by Creative Scotland.