The Future We Breathe – Ilona Kacieja, Hannah Read and Daira Ronzoni

The Future We Breathe is this year’s cross estate exhibition at Perth Creative Exchange, featuring work from three artists based at Wasps’ buildings in Glasgow. The purpose of the cross estate exhibitions is to foster connections between artists across the network, with curatorial support from the Arts Programme Manager to produce the project.

Ilona Kacieja is a versatile and passionate artist based in Scotland, whose practice spans painting, film, and immersive media. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, where she received the Special Distinction Prize, she has been nominated for major awards including the Grierson Award in London and BAFTA New Talent in Glasgow. Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognised for its creativity and distinctive vision. Between 2018 and 2021, she pursued Advanced Painting studies at Glasgow School of Art, later expanding her practice into immersive art through the Artists Into Immersive programme with Glasgow School of Art and the National Film and TV School, where her final project received an award. Ilona has been part of the Wasps Studios community since 2020 and has taken part in collaborative initiatives such as the Critical Art Forum at Glasgow Lux. In 2023, she completed a month-long internship in Venice with the A Fragile Correspondence project at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia. Her project Sola will be exhibited at Perth Creative Exchange from September to November 2025.

Han (Hannah Read) is an experimental musician, sound artist, and healthcare worker based in Glasgow. She runs Events Research Programme (a monthly subscription-based events series) and helps to run DIY listings site Communal Leisure. She likes to make weird industrial music about institutions, and her artistic practice focuses on the political and environmental implications of DIY culture. This is her first art installation.

Daira Ronzoni is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Buenos Aires, raised in the UK, and now based in Glasgow. Her practice spans sculpture, painting, and virtual landscapes, incorporating colour theory to create imagined worlds influenced by her Indigenous Patagonian heritage and contemporary narratives. Her work researches Indigenous/queer cosmologies, earthly rituals, and ecological care, blending personal and cultural histories to reflect on resilience and the evolving relationship between land, nature, tools and technology, often in collaboration with coders and musicians.