GSA Exhibitions, The Glasgow School of Art

30/03/2026

We have a handful of spaces left on our ‘Writing Hospitable Spaces’ workshop with Sean Wai Keung tomorrow evening at the Garnethill Multicultural Centre from 5.30pm.

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty ‘States of Matter’ strand, and considers the making and re-making of hospitable spaces in an interdisciplinary workshop, led by poet and performance maker Sean Wai Keung.

Free but ticketed - book via https://tinyurl.com/ystrzx9a
5.30pm - 7pm, Tuesday 31st March
Garnethill Multicultural Centre

https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/rrs-writing-hospitable-spaces-with-sean-wai-keung/

Join us on Tuesday 31st March for a special writing workshop led by Sean Wai Keung.

25/03/2026

Here are some installation views of our current Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship exhibition ‘Inference to The Veil’, curated by Black Waters (Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery). The exhibition runs in the Reid Gallery, GSA until Saturday 25th April 2026.

The exhibition stages Glasgow as the centre from which to perceive the scale and afterlives of the global colonial project, and the precise, opaque, continuously emergent ways Black life subsists and composes. The exhibition has been developed, particularly in relation to questions of perspective, visual authority, and the historical and contemporary processes through which Black life is obscured. These concerns directly informed the exhibition title, ‘Inference to The Veil’, which reflects the project’s focus on abstraction, opacity, and concealment as both tools of oppressive social design and as counter-strategies for resistance and refusal. For Black curatorial practice, inference becomes a means of recollection and assemblage; studying alongside fragments, distortions and omissions as a methodology for pronouncing Black life and testimony.

Supported by Jerwood Foundation, the exhibition features work from Jerwood Collection including Barbara Walker RA, MBE, Lubaina Himid CBE, RA, Michael Armitage and Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, alongside works by Kialy Tihngang, Emmanuel Addo-Osafo, Hock Aun Teh and Anna Tewungwa from the GSA Archive & Collections. Black Waters has also invited Glasgow-based artists Grace Browne, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Camara Taylor and Adebusola King Ramsay, alongside London-based artist Rebecca Bellantoni, to present work in the exhibition.

Black Waters: Inference to The Veil
Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship
On show in the Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art until 25th April 2026

Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10am – 4.30pm, Sun – Closed
*Please note the gallery is closed on Monday 6th April

Image 1: 'Black Waters: Inference to The Veil' Installation View.

Image 2: Michael Armitage - Dream and Refuge (2020), Signed and numbered seven colour lithograph on Somerset warm white velvet 400gsm paper, 48.8 x 23.5cm, Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC263

Image 3: Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA - Mayflower, All Flowers (2020) Relief print with woodblock and fabric collage on Somerset Tub Sized Satin 410gsm paper, 111.5 x 103cm , Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC265

Image 4: Lubaina Himid CBE, RA - A Rake’s Progress Hole in her Stocking (4) (2022), Screenprint in Charbonnel etching ink with hand-painting in acrylic on Arches Watercolour 640 gsm paper, 77 x 57.5cm, Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC282

Image 5: Installation view showing a still from ‘Grace Browne – OGODO’ (2024), Single channel HD Video, courtesy of the artist

All photos © Matthew Arthur Williams

02/03/2026

You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our inaugural exhibition of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship 'Black Waters: Inference to The Veil', which opens in the Reid Gallery at 5pm on Friday 13th March 2026 (Free but ticketed - book via https://tinyurl.com/45umsfew).

'Black Waters: Inference to the Veil' marks the culmination of the inaugural Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art 2025 and features works from Jerwood Collection and Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections. The first recipient of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art is ‘Black Waters’, a collaborative, curatorial research project led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery.

'Inference to the Veil' announces Black Waters’ debut exhibition. Drawing on Black feminist methodologies and Black scholarship, the exhibition convenes archival and collection works with invited independent artists in a shared curatorial field. This gesture situates Glasgow-based practices within a broader UK and African diasporic constellation.

The exhibition seeks to frame selected works from Jerwood Collection and GSA Archives & Collections into view with Black spatial practices, citational performance and material thinking. Works from both collections are shown alongside invited artists based in Glasgow and London. Jerwood Collection works feature Barbara Walker, Lubaina Himid CBR,RA, Michael Armitage and Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, with GSA Archive & Collections works featuring Kialy Tihngang, Emmanuel Addo-Osafo, Hock Aun Teh and Anna Tewungwa. Black Waters have also invited Glasgow-based artists Grace Browne, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Camara Taylor and Adebusola King Ramsay, alongside London-based artist Rebecca Bellantoni, to present work in the exhibition.

This exhibition and Curatorial Fellowship are supported by Jerwood Foundation with loans from Jerwood Collection and GSA Archives & Collections.

Image: Inference to The Veil, image courtesy of Black Waters (Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery), 2026

17/02/2026

Year 2 Painting and Printmaking - Stowaways
14th – 28th February 2026
Reid Gallery

'Stowaways', currently on show in the Reid Gallery until the 28th February, is an exhibition of work by 2nd Year Painting and Printmaking students.

The title reflects the exhibition as a dynamic, as well as the short movement of works from the studios in the Stow Building, and the shift embedded in this ‘away game’ or escape from the workshopping of ideas.

Exhibiting artists are Malak Ali, Kerala Alexander, Mathilda Allan, Lu Armstrong, Martha Atwell, Saul Auty, Eden Bagchi, Hannah Balding, Mckayla Blair, Calum Bremner, Minna Briscoe, Emma Campbell, Áine Chatfield, Thomas Chorley, Martha Cohen, Aoife Davidson, Ella Denison, Cerys Dunant, Kirsten Feehan, Elen Foley, Olive Friend, Evie Galberg, Alex Gardner, Gabrielle Gledhill, Romy Gordon-Craig, Bronte Greenoff, Sam Groarke, Anushka Gupta, Tilly Hagland, Emily Hall, Grace Halsey, Ollie Hancock, Robyn Hill, Maggie Holyoke, Alexander Hyland, Adrina Jan, Andy Jiang, Josie Johnson, Carys Keenan, Puifai Ketpharn, Cassie Layton, Hubert Liu, Rax Liu, Yicheng Liu, Daisy Locke, Lara Machesnay, Sylvie Magee, Jen Matheson, Evie Mckeown, Helen McCool, Kirsty McNeil, Penny McShea, Sasha Moss, Lola Nicholls, Divija Parmar, Annie Priestley, William Puddy, Tilly Ross, Bob Sainsbury, Lily Schiller-Chatwood, Lisa Scott, Rachel Sedgeworth, Wonrin Seo, Emily Smith, Susanne Stampf, Lula Thomas, Nina van Roosmalen, Ella Walsh Biderman, Jess Wood and Joey Zhang.

This exhibition was selected from a GSA Schools-led Open Call.

Opening Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10am to 4.30pm
Sunday – Closed

09/02/2026

Shaping Archived Futures with Ebun Sodipo

5.30pm - 6.30pm, Wednesday 25th February, Reid Lecture Theatre
Free but ticketed - book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981571210834?aff=oddtdtcreator

How does our past shape our future? And how do we make art for those who will come after? In this event, London-based interdisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo will reflect on collage and fabulation as methods to shape Black trans futures. Addressing archival gaps, Sodipo will share insights into her current research and illustrate how (re)imagining past states can facilitate future joy.

Join us for a short presentation from Sodipo, followed by a discussion, with time for audience questions at the end.

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty ‘States of Matter’ strand. ‘States of Matter’ is a programme strand which considers interactions between art and statehood, asking how practitioners shift our present states of living. Race, Rights and Sovereignty is a programme supported by the GSA Students Association in partnership with GSA Exhibitions.

Photo credit: Ebun Sodipo & Soft Opening.

16/12/2025

You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our new exhibition 'Daniele Sambo – T.(- - - - - - - -) Pressure, Light, Fire', which opens in the Garnethill Gallery at 5pm on Friday 16th January 2026. Free but ticketed - book via https://tinyurl.com/2nc8w5z9.

This exhibition features a new body of work by Daniele Sambo, which will be exhibited first at the Garnethill Gallery at the Glasgow School of Art, before being shown at NHS Lothian later in 2026.

'T.(- - - - - - - -) ‘Pressure, Light, Fire’ consists of a series of blind embossings on paper, photograms and small terracotta sculptures created using tidewrack (manmade marine debris) collected on the Scottish coastline and made during a residency at Hospitalfield. The precarious nature of our coastal habitats mirrors the fragility of our bodies. This work is responding to a lexicon learned in the past four years, following Sambo’s own diagnosis and subsequent recovery from a rare congenital illness. In the title of the exhibition, ‘T’ is short for both Teratoma and Tidewrack. Pressure, light, and fire refer to the conditions required to create the elements of the work.

Daniele Sambo is an Italian visual artist based in Glasgow who works primarily with photography and print. His work is often site-specific. In the past he has engaged small groups of people to re-interpret daily life and the hidden distinctiveness of a specific place. A number of projects have responded to his hometown: the island of Venice and its coastline.

Sambo undertook an interdisciplinary residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, in October 2024, which offered an opportunity to create a new body of work that reflected upon the fragile nature of health and well-being.

The exhibition is on show in the Garnethill Gallery until 14th February 2026.

Image: T9B_L from the Light Impressions series, photogram of tidewrack on paper (2024) © Daniele Sambo, courtesy of the artist.

15/12/2025

You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our new exhibition Mother Curator, which opens in the Reid Gallery at 5pm on Friday 9th January (Free but ticketed - https://tinyurl.com/4p993ys7).

This exhibition, curated by 4th year Fine Art student Emma Scarlett, brings together existing and new work by GSA staff and students who are mothers. Conversations around gender roles and caregiving have been ongoing for generations, but the significance of motherhood is still frequently undervalued. The exhibition aims to transform this narrative by celebrating motherhood in its fullness, its challenges, its strengths and its profound creativity. By sharing lived experiences through their work, Mother Curator hopes to create space for new perspectives.

There is also a family friendly drop-in reception on Saturday 10th January from 12pm - 2pm.

Artists are Chantal Balmer, Sara Barker, Kate Davis, Louise Donnelly, Fiona Glen, Emma Keogh, Lorna Macintyre, Lindsey McAulay, Shauna McMullan, Kim McNeil, Rosie Morris, Maya El Nahal, Thomai Pnevmonidou, Lesley Punton, Susan Roan, Fiona Robertson, Anna Almqvist Romanus, Emma Scarlett, Annabel Sharp, Niketa Shetty, Bex Šik and Jennifer Wicks, Stephanie Smith (SMITH/STEWART), Felicity Steers and Josie Williams.

This exhibition was selected from a GSA Staff and Student Open Call.

Logo Typeface: Laura HT. Courtesy of Caro Giovagnoli (Huerta Tipográfica)

13/11/2025

Join us on Thursday 20th November, for a special screening of ‘The Boat in the Writing Room: retracing the origins of Stonypath, Little Sparta’, in the Reid Lecture Theatre from 6pm.

Free but ticketed – book via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-boat-in-the-writing-room-film-screening-tickets-1781608331479?aff=oddtdtcreator

‘The Boat in the Writing Room’ is a new documentary film about the year Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 – 2006) and his family spent at Gledfield Farmhouse, Sutherland, Scotland, 1965-66. This proved to be a transformational phase, now almost forgotten, in the early career of the Scottish poet, artist and landscape designer.

This special screening has been programmed to coincide with the centenary exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay – War and Pieces of a Garden, on show in the Garnethill Gallery until the 22nd November. Following the screening, there will be a short Q&A with writer and presenter Alistair Peebles.

The film features contributions from Sue Swan, early collaborators Michael Hamish Glen and Peter Lyle, and not least Professor Stephen Bann, Finlay’s friend and “preferred commentator”. The film evokes in detail the Gledfield era and demonstrates its significance as a transitional phase in Finlay’s career.

The year Finlay and his family spent at Gledfield represented a crucial stage between his concrete poems on the page and his three-dimensional works. Successful in their own right, these showed the way towards later work at Little Sparta, and also helped prompt his move towards classicism. It was at Gledfield too that he and his partner Sue Finlay (now Swan) first began gardening.

Image: The Boat in Writing Room, directed by Michael Lloyd.

10/11/2025

Please note that due to ongoing glazing repairs to the building, Renfrew Street in front of the Reid Building and the back lane will be closed until Saturday 15th November.

The Reid Building remains open and you can still visit our ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay – War and Pieces of a Garden’ exhibition, on show in the Garnethill Gallery during this time. Access to the Reid Building will be through the main entrance via the Scott Street side only.

The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 4.30pm and is on show until Saturday 22nd November.

https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/ian-hamilton-finlay-war-and-pieces-of-a-garden/

Image: 'Ian Hamilton Finlay - War and Pieces of a Garden' Installation View © Joe Budi O'Brien

28/10/2025

A busy end to the week with events at GSA.

This Thurs 30 Oct 5-7pm there are two previews in Reid building: ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay: War and Pieces of a Garden' in Garnethill Gallery, Reid Building and ‘Seep’, a new exhibition exploring Glasgow's saturated histories and hydropoetics in moving image and archival material from GSA's collections with contemporary works by Alia Syed, Tako Taal, Joanne Lee, Winnie Herbstein, and Sulaïman Majali. ‘Seep’ is curated by Kelly Rappleye ( ) in a collaboration with GSA Archives & Collections as part of Rappleye’s SGSAH-AHRC awarded doctoral research with the School of Fine Art , and supported by engagement funding.

On the same evening, we also have Holm Sound Episode 9, ‘Survey’, 7 – 8.30pm Thursday 30th October 2025. This event is via Zoom, with speakers including writer, mum and seaweed collector Amy Liprot, poet, editor and publisher Autumn Richardson, sonic alchemist Gayle Brogan, alongside artists Roxane Permar, Amanda Thomson and Frances Scott. They will be joined by SurvØY artists Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford. This episode is supported by the Glasgow School of Art. It coincides with Higgins and Ford’s current exhibition, SurvØY, which is on show in the Reid Gallery until 1st November 2025.

On Friday 31 Oct, 4.30 – 6pm in Reid Auditorium GSA we have The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar, delivered in partnership with Glasgow Women’s Library and Street Level Photoworks. Tickets via GWL website.

Tickets info:

via https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/ian-hamilton-finlay-war-and-pieces-of-a-garden/

Seep: https://shorturl.at/HgGg7

Holm Sound: via Holm Sound mailing list https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/holm-sound-episode-9-survey/

The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture: https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-maud-sulter-annual-lecture-with-pratibha-palmar/

10/10/2025

You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our new exhibition 'Ian Hamilton Finlay – War and Pieces of a Garden', which opens in the Garnethill Gallery at 5pm on Thursday, 30th October. Free but ticketed – book via https://tinyurl.com/2e3wm9pf.

The exhibition marks the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006). Finlay is internationally recognised as a poet, writer, visual artist and gardener. He is best known for his garden Little Sparta, which Finlay viewed as a contemporary version of the classical Greek Arcadian idyll, set in on windswept Pentland Hills in the village of Dunsyre, in Southern Scotland.

Finlay’s work takes many forms and several themes recur within them, including the Sea, the Classical world, 20th-century warfare and the French Revolution, which served as a metaphor for Finlay’s moral position in relation to the world around him. A number of the works in the exhibition are drawn from the GSA Library Special Collections, which holds many works by Finlay, published through Wild Hawthorn Press. Alongside these, the exhibition includes several private loans, including prints and photographs from Finlay’s friends and collaborators.

To coincide with the exhibition, we are holding a special screening of ‘The Boat in the Writing Room: retracing the origins of Stonypath, Little Sparta’ at 6pm on 20th November in the Reid Lecture Theatre. Free but ticketed – book via https://tinyurl.com/yc63hec5.

This new documentary film is about the year Ian Hamilton Finlay and his family spent at Gledfield Farmhouse, Sutherland, Scotland in 1965-66. This proved to be a transformational phase, now almost forgotten, in the early career of the Scottish poet, artist and landscape designer. Following the screening, there will be a short Q+A with the writer and presenter Alistair Peebles.

Image: ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta‘ Silver Gelatin Print (2004) © Robin Gillanders, courtesy of the artist.