Glenfiddich Announces the Winner of the 2026 Artist in Residence Prize

Jenine Marsh. Photo: LF Documentation

Jenine Marsh wins the Glenfiddich 2026 Artist in Residence Prize

This summer sees the Glenfiddich® Artists in Residence Programme celebrate its 25th year of welcoming acclaimed artists from around the globe to live and work for three months in the Valley of the Deer. The program has hosted artists from Australia, Chile, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the USA, and—for the last twenty-two years—Canada.

Each year upwards of two-hundred artists from across the country apply for the prestigious prize, which is valued at over $28,000. A jury of artists and curators create a shortlist of the top ten most promising proposals, from which the Glenfiddich AiR programme curator Andy Fairgrieve selects a winner.

Glenfiddich® is pleased to announce that the Calgary-born, Toronto-based artist Jenine Marsh is this year’s winning artist.

“I am completely overjoyed to be the Canadian Artist in Residence for 2026,” writes Marsh. “This summer I will bring my practice to Dufftown for site-specific research situated at the springhead of the Robbie Dhu, where I will explore the common-place ritual of coin-wishing and its historic roots in Celtic water worship. Engaging in themes of value, agency, and hope within capitalism, my work will be aimed towards the production of a permanent public sculptural artwork.”

“Water is of course one of the three elements required to make whisky,” notes Fairgrieve, “along with malted barley and yeast, and since 1887 the Glenfiddich Distillery has drawn on one special water source, the Robbie Dhu Spring, located in the Conval hills to the west of the distillery. Clean, soft water is not just essential to the production of the Water of Life but is just as important for sustaining life itself and since ancient times has been celebrated and venerated with votive offerings resulting in the long standing folk tradition of throwing coins into a well.

Jenine’s proposal of a sculptural piece to be located close to the Robbie Dhu spring neatly taps into this tradition while marking the special contribution that the waters of the Robbie Dhu spring make to the worlds most favourite Single Malt.”

Glenfiddich® congratulates Jenine Marsh and looks forward to welcoming her to the Scottish Highlands this summer. The programme would like to thank all of the artists who took time to propose works, and the jurors Ruth Burns, David Diviney, Dave Dyment, Stefan Hancherow, Ivan Jurakic, Eunice Luk and Josh Schwebel for their ongoing dedication to the selection process.

Marsh says “I am so grateful to be joining the other selected residents for what I am anticipating will be an extremely generative and impactful experience.”

For more information about the Artist in Residence program, please visit glenfiddich.com/en-ca/artistscanada or contact artistsinresidencegfcanada@gmail.com. To learn more about the world of Glenfiddich, please visit www.glenfiddich.com.

About the Artist

Jenine Marsh (b. 1984 Calgary CA; lives in Toronto CA) has exhibited her sculpture and installation work widely in galleries and institutions such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2025); Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2025); the Goldfarb Art Gallery, Toronto (2024); Ensemble, New York (2024); Prairie, Chicago (2024); Ashley, Berlin (2024); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2024); Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023); Union Pacific, London (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2023); Joe Project, Montreal (2023); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Essex Flowers, New York (2020); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2019); Centre Clark, Montreal (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Entrée Gallery, Bergen (2018), and Lulu, Mexico City (2015). She has served as artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2009, 2010 and 2022), at AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen (2018); Rupert, Vilnius (2017); and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson (2011). Marsh’s work has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, Partners in Art, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council. Jenine received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007, and her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2013.

About Glenfiddich

GLENFIDDICH® is the world’s most awarded single malt Scotch whisky. Today, Glenfiddich is run by the fifth generation of the Grant-Gordon family and is one of the few remaining family-owned and operated distilleries in the world. Glenfiddich continues to be a progressive spirit in challenging malt whisky conventions while also staying true to legacy, by keeping the traditional production techniques established by founder, William Grant. Represented by PMA Canada.

About William Grant & Sons

William Grant & Sons, Ltd. is an independent family-owned distiller headquartered in the United Kingdom and founded by William Grant in 1887. Today, the luxury spirits company is run by the fifth generation of his family and distils some of the world’s leading brands of Scotch whisky, including the world’s most awarded single malt Glenfiddich®, The Balvenie® range of handcrafted single malts, small-batch, handcrafted Hendrick’s® Gin and the world’s third largest blended Scotch, Grant’s®, as well as other iconic spirits brands such as Sailor Jerry®, Tullamore D.E.W.® Irish Whiskey, Monkey Shoulder® and Drambuie®, Reyka® Vodka and Milagro® Tequila. Represented in Canada by PMA Canada Agency.