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

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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

Artist Demonstration with Bronwen Sleigh – Kelvingrove Art Gallery

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Saturday 3rd December 2022 at 11am – 12 noon The Love of Print, Artist Demonstration Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, G3 8AG Come along and see Bronwen Sleigh demonstrating inking up and printing an etching plate. There will be an opportunity to find out more about Bronwen’s new print “Sinclair Drive” made especially […]

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Conserving Hoyland, The Hunterian

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Thursday, 24 November, 2022 – 6 until 8 p.m. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow,  82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Tickets £3 to £5 After hours event about the artist John Hoyland and conservation work on his painting John Hoyland was one of the most inventive and dynamic abstract painters of the post-war period. […]

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Our Right, Our Communities, Our Stories Exhibition

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11 – 16 November, 2022 The Deep End,21 Nithsdale Street, Govanhill G41 2PZ Event by Govanhill Baths Community Trust The exhibition is free to attend and will be hosted at the Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow, G41 2PZ. The exhibition will open on the 11th of November with an opening night from 6 to 8pm […]

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Thursday, November 3, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

SWG3 Celebrates the Creative Spirit of Defiance

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Creative Resilience: Scene but not Heard 11th November 2022, 6:30pm – 9pm Exhibition continues until 5 January SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place Glasgow G3 8QG Creative Resilience: Scene but not Heard champions the unconventional nature of urban art Scotland’s leading multi-disciplinary arts venue SWG3 has announced the latest exhibition to be hosted in their Yard Life Gallery urban […]

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Maud Sulter exhibition at Pollok House

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Exhibition of the work of internationally renowned Glaswegian-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter (1960–2008) at Pollok House in Glasgow. The Maud Sulter exhibition at Pollok House runs from 15 October–4 December 2022 and 6–15 January 2023. The exhibition at Pollok House features a range of works across Maud Sulter’s career including selections from her series Zabat and Hysteria. It offers visitors […]

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Maryhill Youth Art Festival 2022

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15 and 16 October, 2022 G20 Festival Building, Shuna Street, Glasgow G20 9PX and G20 Works Building,  21 Dunbeith Place, Glasgow G20 8HS Talulah Hannah Wright and Emily Cutts Made by young people, for young people! A weekend of free workshops and activities for young people, all centred around creativity and art. Come have a go at […]

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Un Carnat de Bal plus Thomas McGoran plus Q & A GFT

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Friday 7 October, 2022 – 2.15 p.m. Free Event Screening followed by reception and exhibition at Reid Building Glasgow School of Art A special free event revisiting memories of cinema-going in the 1930s. This matinee screening features Un Carnet de Bal (1937, dir. Julian Duvivier), a film which served as the main attraction for the Cosmo […]

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Cinema

The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots, The Hunterian

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14 October 2022–5 February 2023 New Exhibition Explores The Afterlife of Scotland’s Most Controversial Monarch A programme of family events inspired by the exhibition will run from 8–20 October 2022. Hunterian Art Gallery, 2 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Admission free A major new exhibition exploring the afterlife of Scotland’s most controversial monarch, Mary Queen […]

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In Our Shoes Poetry Showcase – ARCadia Festival

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Sunday, 25 September 2022, 3 – 4 p.m. The ARC, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G11 6EWThis exhibition and poetry showcase offers an opportunity for you to hear experiences of everyday life for migrant, local and refugee women. About this event This exhibition and poetry showcase offers a unique opportunity for you to […]

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ZANELE MUHOLI: SOMNYAMA NGONYAMA, ‘HAIL, THE DARK LIONESS’

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1 October–6 November 2022 University of Glasgow East Quad, University Avenue, G12 8QQ Admission free 17 striking self-portraits by celebrated visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972) will go on display at an outdoor exhibition at the University of Glasgow 1 October until 6 November, 2022. Zanele Muholi, Somnyama I, Paris, 2014. © Zanele […]

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Abundance – art exhibition ProjectAbility

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1 October – 5 November, 2022 ProjectAbility,  103 Trongate, Glasgow x3 collaboration returns with its first IRL exhibition, ‘Abundance’. More information Featuring: Kathy Wilmott (Venture Arts), Erin Keogh (Project Ability) and Chandrakant Patel (ActionSpace) – selected by artist Sonia Boué. The resulting exhibition is the culmination of x3, a three year collaborative project between ActionSpace, […]

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow

50 Pots – Scottish Pottery Exhibition

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BARROWFIELD, BRITANNIA, BUCHAN, BELLS: EXPLORING OVER 200 YEARS OF SCOTTISH CERAMICS IN 50 POTS Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10 – 24 Garbraid Avenue, Glasgow Glasgow, Wyndford, Glasgow G20 8YE The FREE exhibition. runs until October, 2022. Monday till Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. To mark their golden anniversary, Scottish Pottery Society are taking us back […]

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Curatorial Tour: Glasgow and Slavery, People’s Palace

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Thursday 4 August, 2022, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. People’s Palace, Green, Templeton St, Glasgow G40 1AT Come along to the People’s Palace on Thursday 4th August 2-3pm for Glasgow and Slavery, the first in a new series of curatorial tours. Miles Greenwood and Tony Lewis invite you to share thoughts about Glasgow and its […]

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A Day Of Fun Inspired by John Byrne

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Saturday 30 July, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m Kelvingrove Art Gallery,  Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AG Performances of the music that John Byrne loves and that inspired his creativity, featuring songs by Gerry Rafferty, Stealers Wheel, Donovan and The Beatles. With something for every age group; even the smallest fans (3+) will be entertained […]

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Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A World Made on Paper – The Hunterian

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(Image: Alasdair Gray, Design for jacket cover of Lanark, 1982. The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Courtesy The Alasdair Gray Archive.)  14 June – 2 October, 2022 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead St, Glasgow G12 8QQ This Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) […]

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‘Workaround’ – Charlie Hammond at The Hunterian

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WORKAROUND 24 June – 16 October 2022 Hunterian Art Gallery  Admission free  Opening on Friday 24 June, Workaround is a solo exhibition featuring new and existing work by Glasgow-based artist Charlie Hammond.   In his practice, Hammond often considers the ways in which art might be understood in relation to work (as in labour) and to not working (as in play, but […]

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Artist Aid Ukraine – The Pentagon, Glasgow

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22nd -25th June, 11am-6.00pm The Pentagon Centre, 36/38 Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ A once in a lifetime opportunity to see/buy 100 top Scottish Artists in one exhibition. Artist Aid Ukraine features nearly 100 of Scotland’s best working artists, who are exhibiting their work in one stunning space, in Glasgow, for 4 days. There’s nearly […]

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Exhibition: Origin of WA – Before the Mask

Willie Sutherland at French Street Studios 103 – 109 French Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow G40 4JS “I was a solitary child obsessed by drawing, dressing up and telling stories with my toys, I have explored how these characteristics formed me as an adult and forms my creative practice as I continue to tell stories through my […]

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John Patrick Byrne – A Big Adventure

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Until 18 September, 2022 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AG This is the first retrospective of Scottish artist and writer John Byrne’s illustrious career for more than 20 years. A polymath and cultural icon, John has continued to work, paint and create plays on into his 80’s. This exhibition encapsulates the […]

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Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair 2022 review Pat Byrne

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I was delighted to receive an invitation to go along to the Preview of the Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair; Jim an I thoroughly enjoyed being back in the Marquee at Kelvingrove meeting some of the artists, gallery owners and checking out the amazing range of contemporary art on display. Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair continues Saturday, […]

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Alma Wolfson – ‘A Painter’s Passion’

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    Saturday 23rd April 2022 from 12 till 4pm, DUE TO POPULARITY THE EXHIBITION EXTENDED FOR A WEEK UNTIl 21 MAY. New Solo Exhibition “A Painter’s Passion” Alma Wolfson D.A Alma Wolfson, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art (Textile Design) has a long- established career and celebrates her 80th birthday with this new […]

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Making Imagined Objects – The Second Alasdair Gray Conference

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16 – 17 June, 2022 University of Strathclyde Register for Event The University of Strathclyde and the Alasdair Gray Archive, in partnership with the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Western Brittany (HCTI), Aix-Marseille Universite (LERMA), Edge Hill University, the University of Lausanne and the Tannahill Fund for the Furtherance of Scottish Literature, are […]

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Fragments, Fragmentation and Fractures, RGI

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Thursday 7 April, 2022, 5 p.m. Kelly Gallery, 118 Douglas Street, Glasgow G2 4ET Fragments, Fragmentation, & Fractures is an invited group exhibition featuring a range of contemporary painters. Each artist’s distinct style demonstrates the extensive breadth of painting today, spanning from figuration to abstraction through the means of fragments, fragmentation and fractured imagery and […]

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‘Faces of Kabul’ – Kelvingrove Art Gallery

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Saturday 19 March – Sunday 3 April, 2022 ‘Faces of Kabul’, a photodocumentary exhibition produced by Highlands-based photojournalist and writer, Nick Sidle. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street, G3 8AG The exhibition is a partnership between Heartstone and Glasgow Afghan United, telling the human story of the people of Kabul and the surrounding areas, […]

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Ataraxie at Sonica Festival

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20 March, 2022 – until 5 p.m. New video and pictures of the world premiere of Ataraxie – a jaw-dropping laser and sound installation in the Engine Works, 23-25 Lochburn Rd, Wyndford, Glasgow G20 9AE   The event is free to attend and unticketed, running from 11am – 5pm Sunday 20 March.  In this this new […]

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Still Life – Sogo Gallery, Glasgow

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Photographs and Poems from Lockdown by Angela Catlin and Henry Bell Wednesday 16 March – Sunday 17 April, 2022 Sogo Arts 82 – 86 Saltmarket Glasgow G1 5LY Opening Times Wednesday – Sunday 12pm – 5pm (The photo in the image  is from the Black Lives Matter demo on Glasgow Green in June 2020 when […]

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Sonica Glasgow 2022 – Art for the Visually Minded

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10 – 20 March, 2022 – Throughout Glasgow Sonica is an 11-day biennial festival dedicated to world class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside UK talent in diverse venues throughout Glasgow. 10-20 March 2022 Sonica  will showcase 200 events by over 85 artists from 10 countries A unique programme of events dedicated to world-class sonic arts, presenting emerging British talent alongside […]

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Glasgow Society of Women Artists, Lillie Gallery Spring 2022

Glasgow Society of Women Artists Exhibition Saturday 5 March until 28 April, 2022 Lillie Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ (Gallery will be closed Easter weekend 25 and 26 April) Admission is Free Exhibitors include Scottish Pastels Artist – Lynn Howarth    

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Compass Gallery: Gary Anderson RSW : Thoughts and Contemplations

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Compass Gallery A group of recent works from the artist Gary Anderson. Gary Anderson RSW Thoughts and Contemplations Gary Anderson, born in Glasgow, studied Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art graduating in 1984 with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. He had early success, winning the John D Kelly Award in 1981. […]

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The Sea of Paperwork Exhibition – Maryhill Integration Network

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24 January – 5 April, 2022 Event by Maryhill Integration Network At Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH GoMA – Glasgow Museums The Sea of Paperwork Exhibition, delayed by the pandemic, is now on display at the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow until the 5th April 2022. The exhibition presents the […]

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