Blank Canvas Opening Exhibiton Velvet Ramos: Chew for them they forget to swallow

Join us to celebrate the opening exhibtion of Velvet Ramos coming all the way from Aruba, who has spent a month working with performance, food and installation in MAKE!

During her Blank Canvas residency, interdisciplinary artist Velvet Zoé Ramos brings together The Feast: Stoba, Interlasado, and Chew for they forget to swallow in an evolving project shaped by food, memory, mark-making and performance.

Across the residency, ingredients, stories, objects and marks will accumulate and transform the studio into a living installation. The process will eventually come together through food, wearables, performance and a shared final act.

About Velvet Zoé Ramos

Velvet Zoé Ramos is an interdisciplinary artist from Aruba working across installation, performance, food, printmaking and participatory practice. Her work explores empathy, memory, identity and connection through play, material processes and shared experiences. During the residency, she will develop Chew for they forget to swallow alongside food, making and participatory encounters in response to Ayr and its communities.

Blank Canvas Residency Project

During the residency, Ramos will bring together different strands of her practice through a new participatory project developed in response to Ayr and its communities.

A particular focus will be the development of Chew for they forget to swallow as a first live act, alongside food, material processes and shared making. The public-facing studio will become part kitchen, part stage and part installation — a space where the work can unfold through encounters, conversation, observation and participation.

Coming from an island shaped by other waters, Ramos approaches Ayr with curiosity and attentiveness, seeking to listen and respond rather than arrive with a fixed idea of place. She is interested in the layers already present within the town — its food, stories, people and everyday encounters — and in how these might become part of the work.

The project considers regeneration as an ongoing process: something that shifts, decays, reforms and grows through collective attention and care.