Art, Photography, Exhibitions what’s on-glasgow.

What’s on: art

Glasgow has some amazing galleries including Kelvingrove, The Hunterian and GOMA plus many smaller galleries and a huge variety of art projects. It also attracts many visitors to arts festivals including the prestigious RGI Annual Exhibition, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and Glasgow Art Fair.

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Kibble Palace – Allan Richardson

Allan Richardson Glasgow ArtistBest In The West Certificate

Allan Richardson is a well known Glasgow artist, who’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the city. A self-taught artist he has captured some of the city’s most iconic buildings and scenes, including Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the University of Glasgow, Ashton Lane and the Kibble Palace.

Allan has been chosen as one of the Best in the West on Pat’s Guide to Glasgow West End – he is available for private commissions .

He is both a talented artist and fascinating character, included in Alasdair Grey’s mural at Hillhead Underground.

Alan’s art is on sale at www.allanrichardsonart.com

ProjectAbiility: Express Collaborations Exhibition

Project Ability - Express Collaborations - artwork by Corrine

1 March – 12 April, 2025 Reception 6 March, 6pm – 8pm Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD The exhibition is free to visit. Express Collaborations is a group exhibition built over many months and devised by artist Tanya Raabe-Webber. The artwork in this exhibition covers a variety of themes, and much of […]

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Designing Future Experiences Exhibition – University of Glasgow ARC

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University of Glasgow ARC – 6 until 13 February 2025 Reciprocal Systems of Health in the Climate Era – Designing Future Experiences Exhibition Design speculations for the year 2035 by Product Design Students from the School of Innovation and Technology at the Glasgow School of Art in partnership with the University of Glasgow. See Review […]

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Old Kilpatrick Art Club Exhibition, Erskine

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6 – 9th February, 2025 Come along to browse and buy – Old Kilpatrick Art Club Exhibition A donation will be given to Erskine Hospital Caulders Garden Centre, Erskine Bridge, Bishopton PA7 5PU  

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The Nature of Distance Exhibition, University of Glasgow ARC

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27 – 31 January, 2025 Atrium, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6EW As with any start to a new year there is an unspoken universal rule to look ahead, to visualize and plan in hope for change, new memories and adventure. Yet, many of us are bound to the […]

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Call for Palestinian Artists to Perform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025

Palestinian arts call out for edinburgh festival fringe

CALL OUT FOR PALESTINIAN ARTISTS TO PERFORM AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE Opportunity for artists in Palestine and the diaspora to perform in Scotland at the world’s largest arts festival. Looking for Palestinian musicians, theatre-makers, dancers, story-tellers, children’s performers, poets and comedians to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Fringe Palestine. Deadline to […]

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Hunterian awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Monday 2 December 2024 Hunterian awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to scope major redevelopment Today, The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow is announcing a £249,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The funding will allow The Hunterian to carry out a crucial scoping project that will shape the future of […]

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Jackie Marno McGoldrick Exhibition and Art Prize

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1 – 14 November, 2024 The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8TS Review of Prizewinning Event, Pat Byrne. FREE ENTRY The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize is an annual Glasgow student art competition open to students in the Clydebank area. The JMM Art Prize’s mission is to continue the […]

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Christmas Group Show ProjectAbility 2024

7 November – 21 December, 2024 7 November, 6pm – 8pm Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm The exhibition is free to visit Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103, Glasgow G1 5HD Every holiday season Project Ability likes to end the year with a bang by having a big group exhibition for which everyone at the […]

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Whistler Pastels – The Hunterian

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Friday 04 October 2024 – Sunday 02 March 2025 – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQy Throughout his career, James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) made drawings using pastel crayons. His early drawings (1860s–70s) were often studies for oil paintings, but from the late 1870s he […]

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Affordable Art Sale

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2 and 3 November, 2024, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm New Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street. Glasgow. G3 8TL The Affordable Art Sale features recent local graduates and emerging artists aiming to make art more accessible and affordable with prices starting from £2. Grab yourself an early Christmas bargain from paintings, prints, sculptures to crafts, […]

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Sight Unseen – Glasgow Gallery of Photography

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3 – 30 October, 2024 International Photography Exhibition High Street Gallery, 279-281 High Street, Glasgow Wed-Sat 12-4 Glassford Street, 57 Glassford Street, Glasgow 12-4 Wed-Sat Opening days/times during exhibitions only Glasgow Gallery of Photography

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Iain Clark: Love Letter To Glasgow at Advanced Research Centre

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Until Sunday 22 September 2024 Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW Solo exhibition of the photographic artist Iain Clark at the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre. Come along to this show to see the faces of some well-known and perhaps lesser-known Glaswegians. Breathing life into Glasgow’s very […]

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Old Kilpatrick Art Club

Old Kilpatrick Art Club

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August, 2024 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Art Exhibition Ardardan Estate, Cardross G82 5HD

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Life Drawing at McChuills

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Starts Monday 5th August, 2024 First Monday Every Month 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. McChuills, 80 High St, Glasgow G1 1N Something a bit different in the Acid Arch. A new life-drawing class has been put together by McChuill’s own artist-in-residence Joanna – it will be running monthly and is a relaxed, untutored session that is […]

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Glasgow West End: Nancy Smillie Shop

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53 Cresswell Street, Off Byres Road, Glasgow West End G12 8AE 0141 334 4240 The Nancy Smillie Shop – see the complete collection Nancy Smillie Instagram Designer Spotlight Rentaro Nishimura Effortless Style Here Comes The Summer Sun The Nancy Smillie Shop – see the complete collection   Update Your Home     Wonderful Jewellery in […]

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Exhibition: Between Islands

Between Islands

2 August – 28 September, 2024 Glasgow Print Studio  103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Gregor Smith, Lin Chau, Marion MacPhee (Glasgow Print Studio) Yoko Akino, Elke Thonnes, Niall Naessens (Graphic Studio Dublin) Curated by James Murphy (GPS) and Peter Brennan (GSD) Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to partner with Graphic Studio Dublin for this exhibition, […]

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Exhibition: Landscapes of Loss, The Deep End, Govanhill

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Thursday, August 1 Landscapes of LOSS – Sorrow and Solidarity Q+A and exhibition Launch Part of the Govanhill International Festival & Carnival 2024 collection Join the artists in person as they discuss their exhibition. Followed by an informal launch of the exhibition and the festival. Free – Tickets at EventBsrite Monday 29 July – Sunday 4 August […]

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Father and Sons The Exhibition

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19 June – 4 July, 2024, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4HU Art exhibition of artist Alexander Dakers and his late fathers art work, who through his art work has helped many families in need A Renowned artist is bringing a free and sentimental exhibition to […]

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Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2024

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31 May – 9 June, 2024 GSA Campus, Renfrew Street, Garnethill Master of Fine Art Show – 30 May – 9 June at The Glue Factory, 22 Farnell St, Glasgow G4 9SE The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Degree Show 2024 opens to the public on Friday 31 May where a new generation of students will showcase […]

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Glasgow School of Art: Open Studio Summer Exhibition 2024

Open Studio Summer Exhibition

31 May – 9 June 2024 Open Studio Summer Exhibition Fleming House, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST Opening Times Weekdays: 10:00 – 20:00 Weekends: 10:00 – 18:00 Running as part of the Degree Show, the Open Studio’s Summer Exhibition showcases work made by young people across several different access and community-focused projects at the […]

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Learning through Loans: Dalí’s ‘Christ’ and its recent travels

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Wednesday 5 June, 2024 2-3pm An Illustrated Talk by Curator Pippa Stephenson-Sit Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum,  Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AG Free – meet at the reception in the main hall For a number of months, Dalí’s iconic and much-treasured ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’ has been on display in Figueres, Spain.  […]

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Art Outside of the Box

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7-14th June 2024 Glasgow Museums and the University of Glasgow explore the power of art and creativity Byres Community Hub / School of Health and Wellbeing – Clarice Pears Building 90 Byres Road University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8TB Part of Glasgow International Drop In Workshops Art Outside of the Box is a long-standing collaboration between communities […]

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Collecting Kelvin at The Hunterian

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26 June – 9 July, 2024 University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ A two-part event with The Hunterian and with the University of Glasgow Library exploring objects related to Lord Kelvin About this event 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth scientist and inventor Lord Kelvin, born William Thomson in 1824, one of the […]

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WestFest 2024 – Paintings on Railings

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Three Weekends in June – 8th, 9th, 15th 16th, 22nd and 23rd June – From 10 a.m. Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Railings Paintings on Railings is back for WestFest 24! The annual display of local artists showing their fabulous paintings, drawings, ceramics and jewellery for sale. Please note – weather dependent! To ExhibitPlease email Selma  (Modest […]

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Exhibition: Eastern Ground

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Monday 25th March 2024 – Friday 3rd May 2024 Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell St, Glasgow, G1 1LQ Glasgow City Heritage Trust are thrilled to announce that this spring they will be hosting the Eastern Ground exhibition.  The Eastern Ground project saw the creation of six stunning handmade garments which celebrate the heritage and people […]

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10 Years In The Baking – ProjectAbility

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16th March – 20th April, 2024 Project Ability, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD (Opening hours are 11am – 5pm,  (Wednesdays – Saturdays, closed Easter Friday).) The Joint Creativity “10 Years in the Baking” exhibition, hosted by the charities Versus Arthritis and Project Ability, is set to open in Glasgow and will display artwork created by […]

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Seeing Glasgow: An Artist’s View – Avril Patron

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Thursday 14 March, 2024  7-8pm Glasgow City Heritage Trust, 54 Bell Street, Glasgow, G1 1LQ & Online One of Glasgow’s foremost artists, Avril Paton, made the city and its citizens the principle focus of her work. She is best known for her painting ‘Windows in the West’, which is one of Scotland’s favourite paintings. Its […]

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Poor Things Screening plus Alasdair Gray Archive Q&A + Exhibition

Saturday, 17 February, 2024 The Pyramid at Anderston, 759 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8DS The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter; a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter. Agenda 17:30 – 18:30 Alasdair Gray Travelling Archive Alasdair Gray Archive Explore artworks, manuscripts and books connected […]

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Gray Day 2024

Gray Day

Sunday, 25 February, 2024, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. At OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 8QX with @canongatebooks Hosted by the legendary actor and theatre maker Tam Dean Burn  Tam will also be reading a few Alasdair Gray short stories, you are in for a real treat! Crime writer, playwright and the best dressed […]

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Alasdair Gray Archive – Free Tours

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March 1st, 8th, 15th and 23rd, 2024 at 11am The Alasdair Gray Archive is a free, public resource which was established in March 2020 after Alasdair Gray’s death in late 2019. Free weekly tours of the collection with Custodian Sorcha Gray. @GraySorcha To secure a space please email with your preferred date. 

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