29/05/2026
⛓️ SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR OUR UPCOMING OPEN CALL: MELTING POINT⛓️
While days grow long and shorts shorten, Six Foot Gallery invites artists to submit works to our annual summer open call exhibition, running for three weeks from 19th June-9th July at Six Foot Gallery.
We're looking for works that explore art as an alchemical process; the heat of summer as an artistic catalyst. We seek to explore how artists can transform even the simplest materials, bending them to their creative vision. Perhaps you’re a metalsmith, turning silver sheets into wearable treasures. You might work with collage, building entire worlds out of found papers and objects. Or maybe you’re a printmaker, utilising heat and pressure to bring images to life, or harnessing the power of the sun to make cyanotypes.
Glasgow and its people come alive in the summer. We transform in the heat: a city of dynamic ideas, cultures, and communities turned to gold as the light finally touches us. As the sun beats down, it morphs our mood, our expressions, and our relation to the city itself.
“I love the otherworldliness of painting, and I often talk about the alchemy of art itself. Colours are alchemic… it’s making s**t into gold, isn’t it? Something out of nothing.” –Tracey Emin
Think gold, silver, chrome and mercury, heat, shine, glisten and goop. Chemistry or magic. Created or augmented matter. Artist-made change.
Whether through subject, colour, texture or mood, we welcome your offerings and interpretations. Email us a photograph of the work you would like to submit, and tell us a bit about yourself and your practice. As always, submissions are open to all mediums and disciplines, and to both established and emerging artists.
Submission deadline: Thursday 11th June
Maximum works per artist: 3
Submission Fee: £10 per work
Drop off dates: 12th, 16th, 18th June
Exhibition dates: 19th June - 9th July
Opening night: 19th June 7-9pm
See our website for more info, including our moodboard!
Submissions are also open for , our in-house literary magazine.
Poster design by Hope Reynolds
