Shift – 201 collective

Perth Creative Exchange

7–30 August 2026

Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm

The exhibition brings together the Meadow Mill Curatorial Panel to exhibit their work which reflects a range of artistic approaches, ideas and forms of expression.

The title Shift emerged from a discussion around movement, change and transition. It also refers to the practical shift that takes place when artists working in one Wasps studio building present their work in the gallery space of another.

There will be no formal opening or closing event. Visitors are welcome during the usual opening hours of Wasps Perth Creative Exchange.

On 20 August 2026 at 5.30pm, Lada Wilson will present a short performance.

All welcome.

artist biographies

Astrid Leeson

Astrid Leeson is a painter based at Meadow Mill in Dundee. She graduated from DJCAD in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. She then earned an MFA in Art and Humanities in 2017.

She was selected for New Contemporaries (2010) and more recently as part of a curated exhibition from Gallery 201 in Kyoto Japan (2023). Her work can be found in several galleries and private collections across Scotland and North America.

She is a Director of Creative Catalyst Scotland – supporting young people considering creative careers. I passionately believe that creativity impacts all aspects of our lives.

Miriam Mallalieu

Miriam Mallalieu is an artist-curator based in Dundee. Her current research interests include collections care and organisation, particularly relating these to interpretation, knowledge, and structures of power. Miriam was awarded the Queen’s College Scholarship and recently completed a practice-based PhD at the University of Dundee titled, ‘What does a museum think it is? Research and practice at the intersection of organisation, interpretation and knowledge’.

Louise Ritchie

Louise Ritchie is an artist, lecturer and creative facilitator working in independent and collaborative contexts, embracing many processes and experimental pathways.

Her practice examines a range of tangential explorations, overlaps and collaborations that articulate the process of creativity curiosity. Multi faceted, contrary fascinations sweep broadly and loosely with a range of media spanning public art commissions, independent works, printmaking, performative and lens based works, to large format spatially situated paint-forms. Each seek to encapsulate vivid gestural energy down to various levels of detail whether this is for large spatially complex painterly studies or the controlled micro levels within needle-point and pounce studies on paper.

A graduate of DJCAD, Louise is currently a lecturer on the BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice Programme at City of Glasgow College.

Paola McClure

Paola McClure is an artist living and working in Dundee where she has a studio at Wasps’ Meadow Mill. She creates soft sculpture figures that owe as much to cartoon kitschery as they do to more primitive themes. For the last five years she has been chair of the community festival Dundee WestFest The festival’s annual concert, Big Sunday on Magdalen green and has grown from small beginnings to one of the largest open air events held in the city and for many marks the start of the summer calendar.

Bruce Shaw

Bruce Shaw grew up in Perth and graduated as a mature student with BA/Hons Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee University in 2009. His current practice is based at Meadow Mill, Dundee where he works as a freelance artist. He teaches life drawing and also facilitates art classes/workshops for the health and wellbeing sector within the community.

Bruce has always been drawn to the outdoors and has a deep passion for the environment, its geology and nature. He continues to climb and walk in Scotland’s varied and wonderful landscapes gaining inspiration for artworks that aim to evoke the geology, history and ‘genius loci’ of a unique landscape that is continually changing through time’s constant cycle of erosion and rebirth.

Lada Wilson

Lada Wilson is a visual artist, curator and art educator. She gained a master’s degree, MFA Art, Society and Public, from Duncan of Jordanstone College or Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee, Scotland in 2014. Her work addresses the interactions between people, nature and the wider world. Lada creates mixed-media installations inspired by the conventions of historical archives and exhibition-making. She seeks social engagement through collaboration; the juxtaposition of her personal narrative, expressed by a performance or an activation, and her sculptural interpretations create a new meaning, a new experience.

Lada is the founder and curator of a contemporary art gallery housed in an abandoned, iconic, public telephone box in Strathkinness, Scotland, known as The 201 Telephone Box Gallery. In her practice as artist-curator, she invites national and international artists to create contemporary art exhibitions for the gallery and aims to foster collaborations between the artists and the local community. Since 2018, this small gallery has become an incubator for ideas, enabling Lada to develop international projects and artist exchanges.

Lada exhibits locally and nationally in Scotland and internationally. She has exhibited at the University of Cambridge, England; the Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Spain; the Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland; Art Spot Korin, Japan; and the Palazzo Mora at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy; among other places.

plan your journey to perth creative exchange

23/07/2026 | By Fiona Allan

Shift – 201 collective

The exhibition brings together the Meadow Mill Curatorial Panel to exhibit their work which reflects a range of artistic approaches, ideas and forms of expression.

artist biographies

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