Refractive Artist in Residence in 2026 is Award winning television and film Director Kenny Glenaan
Kenny’s work includes Bafta winning film Summer, Locarno film festival winner Yasmin and Gas Attack, winner of the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Other work includes: the first two parts of Charlie, a 3 x 90 political drama for RTE, which was nominated for Best Drama at the Irish Film and Television Awards; The Ark, a single TV film for Red Planet/BBC1; Paddington, a TV film for BBC 1 about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7 for BBC1, a single TV film about a family on the autism spectrum, which won the Signis Prix – Festival de Television Monte Carlo; Case Histories, Spooks, Paranoid and Being Human.
Kenny also directed the short documentary, The Right to Life, which was part of the portmanteau feature entitled The Ten Commandments, inspired by the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Currently finishing a PhD, Kenny recently completed a full length feature documentary entitle, The Village.
Image from Summer.
The Residency:
For Refractive the Artist in Residence role will enable Kenny to take time to explore documentary and ethnographic film making through developing a new participation programme with local film makers of all ages and at all career stages. Based in Paisley at the Refractive production and exhibition space the project aims to encourage local film makers from different cultural backgrounds to find their own voice and make some new documentary film with Kenny’s support.
Over the next 11 months the project will provide a space to explore, experiment, and create a short documentary in any style or form the artists wish to explore. Participants will learn how to light, shoot and edit to a professional standard, while exploring how to structure their film and engage the audience, using their own voice and experience as a starting point.
The introductory workshops will be help on the Thursday 22nd January at 7pm and repeated on Sat 24th January at 10.30am.
Admission is free click here to book a space.
Image from The Village, Kenny Glenaan
The Project is funded by: 
