Saturn A is a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their practice spans sculpture, photography, 3D design, video, and performance. They explore trans utopian landscapes, non-human sensory experience, and shared sites of renewal and belonging.
Underlying their practice is a call for bodily autonomy, safety, and freedom. Adopting a speculative approach, they work from a space of ever-mutable form, imagining the trans body beyond continuing legacies of control, pathologization and surveillance.
By researching and re-purposing the technology used for body signal sensors, Saturn’s (3D) design conjures transspecies textures, qualities and essences, transforming them into playful and sensual design, vibrant books and installations, and dream-like videos.
Recent inspirations include books such as “Abolish the Family” by Sophie Lewis, “The Galaxy, and the Ground Within” by Becky Chambers and The Great Camouflage” by Suzanne Césaire. These texts inform Saturn’s exploration of speculative futures, radical belonging, and reimagined relationships.
Recently, they have been ‘learning to collapse’ — embracing imperfection, relinquishing control, and discovering the potentiality of flaws within their artistic process.
They are currently developing works that combine ceramic and heat-reactive materials, alongside a series of portraits using bespoke flotation tanks celebrating trans joy and rest.
Biography
Saturn A. have been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park (2024), the VACMA Visual Art and Craft Award (2022), and the CCA Lab Residency (2021), and were twice nominated for the Swiss Design Award. Their work has been exhibited at the CCA Intermedia Gallery, Transmission, Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, Photoforum Pasquart, and at Art Basel during the Swiss Design Awards (2015, 2020). Performances include Space Sporification presented at Double Thrills by Buzzcut Glasgow (2022), Nachtschicht #24 in St-Gallen (2021), and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2021).