Greta McMillan announced as Oily Cart Associate Artist 2024

We are delighted to announce that Greta McMillan has joined Oily Cart as our Associate Artist for 2024. Greta McMillan is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker and climate activist, who uses eyegaze technology to create and communicate. Greta has been recognised by the Scottish Parliament, and her artwork been exhibited internationally. She is a recipient of the ‘Changes for a Better World’ Into Film Award 2022, and winner of the Scottish Youth Film Foundation ‘Films for our Future’ short film competition 2022.

In this photo Greta is sitting in her wheelchair in front of one of her paintings hanging on the wall. She is a young white woman with brown hair and she is wearing a patterned beanie hat with a pink jumper and fluffy black jacket. The painting behind her is a mix of yellow, pink and black swirls and lines on a white background.]

Oily Cart’s Associate Artist programme champions and supports disabled artists to develop their sensory theatre practice and leadership skills to create a more representative sensory theatre-making sector. Having worked with Greta as a young artist in recent years, including on the development of our show When the World Turns, we are excited to support this next step in her creative career.

As Associate Artist, Greta McMillan will be working as Co-Director, alongside sensory artist Natalya Martin, to adapt When the World Turns into an At Home show.

Oily Cart’s Artistic Director & Joint CEO, Ellie Griffiths, said:

“We are delighted to have Greta as this year’s Associate Artist. We have long admired Greta’s work across different disciplines and her approaches to art-making. Her perspective and feedback on our sensory performance work has always been insightful and illuminating. I am excited to see what she comes up with, given more creative freedom and room to lead. I know this will push our work in different directions and ask rich questions of us a company and sensory work as a whole. This is the exact aim of the Associate Artist programme at Oily Cart: to nurture new talent in the field of sensory theatre that can break up its patterns and put it all back together again led by a more representative community of artists and makers.”

Greta McMillan said:

“As an Associate Artist with Oily Cart, I am enjoying working as part of a creative team. I am excited to have more independence as an artist, working with a team outside of my parents and family. My process is always changing with every new person I work with, I am learning new ways of working.

Over the course of this project I will have the space and time to push myself as an artist and develop my artmaking skills using my technology. It has been nice to have time to explore different art forms – film, photography, painting and music. Accessible sensory art is important and I would like to see more being created.”

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Oily Cart’s Associate Artist programme champions and supports disabled artists to develop their sensory theatre practice and develop leadership skills to create a more representative sensory theatre making sector.