We live in a time of unprecedented change – what does it mean to adapt in 2023? What societal pressures and norms are we forced to adapt to, and what radical potential could autonomous reinvention hold?
Works that explore their maker’s lives or own stories, memories or experiences. These works will often explore the politics of the self as well as personal and political identity, and methods of making these parts of ourselves visible.
A greeny island where Miss M-A-P float about, 2023
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Amy Ziyue Zhang
BA (Hons) Degree Show 2023 – “Mistresses of the Deep”
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
Govan Project Space (Group show 2) 2023 – “Pająk”
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
“The Ceasg of Lang Craigs”, 2022
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
We Would Live In An Ugly City And We Would Be Happy, 2023
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Anna Koutsafti
Works which explore what it means to work with others to build genuine and meaningful engagement through art and design. These works explore notions of collaboration, trust building and acts or communities of solidarity.
“The Ceasg of Lang Craigs”, 2022
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
Bus stop to horizon, wasteland to window, Langside, Pollokshields and Gorbals Libraries, Glasgow, curated by Frankie Gallagher
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James Epps
Nord Gren ( A Collection of Field Recordings)
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Theodore King
Essay: Coming into correspondence: Indigenous ontology, art practice and the posthuman
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Felicity White
“The Borgie Well Fairy Circle”, 2021
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
In a world that has changed irrevocably, where do we go from here? These creative responses consider the potential of a post-COVID world.
Works that engage with writing and theory – adopting and challenging dominant forms, and taking inspiration from writers and thinkers.
“Smithson’s Humpty Dumpty” from Underbelly of Heaven Variations, in Many Mvts., in No Order, 2023
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Thomas Newton
The Used Future: Finding Life in Science-Fiction (Essay)
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India Hay
A greeny island where Miss M-A-P float about, 2023
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Amy Ziyue Zhang
Ballads, Limericks and Interstellar Doggerel for Voyages Undertaken in the Pretense of Space Colonization
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Max Longhurst
From trans joy to Black feminism; gender fluidity to media representation – these works explore the intersecting aspects, questions and challenges of gender today.
Ballads, Limericks and Interstellar Doggerel for Voyages Undertaken in the Pretense of Space Colonization
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Max Longhurst
What’s Your Favourite Outfit To Dance In?
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Anna-Rose McChesney
Nüshu
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Yilin Chen
The Re-staging of a Photograph: Sophus Tromholt and Miscellaneous Astronomical Equipment, 1882-83.
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Max Longhurst
‘I cannot hear what you say, for the thunders that you are’
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Felix Butterwick
Present in the Past: The Representation of Lesbian Sexuality in Cinema
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Anastacia Macdonald
From technology-driven innovations in healthcare to narratives of mental illness, these works reflect on the current state of health and wellbeing, and imagine bold new futures.
N.5
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Alice Biolo
N.6
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Alice Biolo
N.4
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Alice Biolo
N.9
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Alice Biolo
Children s Hospital specialized in physiotherapy
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Mathilde Finidori
The Memory of Water: Portobello, Edinburgh Container
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Laura To
Rising from Earth: A Wellness Center Tower Inspired by Nature’s Form
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Wiktoria Pelczynska
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Peter Gillies
Regenerative Global Health Futures Exhibition
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Samuel Sculthorpe
How does creative practice respond to, and affect, the current geological age – defined by the dominant influence of humans on the landscape?
“The Borgie Well Fairy Circle”, 2021
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Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
The Used Future: Finding Life in Science-Fiction (Essay)
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India Hay
Surplus Exhibition (2023) The Axiom Building, Glasgow.
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April
Immersive Nancy’s Rest, 2023. Binaural Audio Immersive Painting
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Edu Sanchez
“Smithson’s Humpty Dumpty” from Underbelly of Heaven Variations, in Many Mvts., in No Order, 2023
by
Thomas Newton
Works that explore and are interested in the ways in which material culture shapes and codes our political, personal and social lives. These works may also explore the politics of what it means to be a producer and maker, and how to make materials which are relevant and accessible.
“Smithson’s Humpty Dumpty” from Underbelly of Heaven Variations, in Many Mvts., in No Order, 2023
by
Thomas Newton
The Re-staging of a Photograph: Sophus Tromholt and Miscellaneous Astronomical Equipment, 1882-83.
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Max Longhurst
Essay: Coming into correspondence: Indigenous ontology, art practice and the posthuman
by
Felicity White
These works centre ways or methods of working where the material or medium of the work is central to how the work communicates, engages and builds meaning with its audience.
The infinite variations of the human brain and differences in sociability, learning, attention and mood are considered and represented here, in work made by and/or for people with neurological differences such as autism and ADHD.
The need to de-colonise the mind, society, creative work, and the educational curriculum is presented with urgency here, alongside numerous intersecting themes of race and identity.
Essay: Coming into correspondence: Indigenous ontology, art practice and the posthuman
by
Felicity White
Govan Project Space (Group show 2) 2023 – “Pająk”
by
Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
BA (Hons) Degree Show 2023 – “Mistresses of the Deep”
by
Nikola “NIXA” Martyna Legierska
Future Experiences Part Two: Borders & Perspectives
by
Doug Kennedy
The Re-staging of a Photograph: Sophus Tromholt and Miscellaneous Astronomical Equipment, 1882-83.
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Max Longhurst
When equals are treated unequally and the unequal treated equally, what is our creative response? These works, often political or philosophical, span issues of race, class equity, isolation, disadvantage, migration and bureaucracy
Community, Sustainability and Design: Towards a Greener Glasgow
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Mary Martin
Self-Initiated Project: Design for Disobedience
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Doug Kennedy
“All the pretty little flowers you don’t know – Blossom 02”
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Ziyue Lin (Shizuki Ichihara)
13/04/2022, 21:00 – 14/04/2022, 9:58: Solo Violin
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Wenyi Pan
LORE
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Hector Will
Our world’s changing climate is the defining challenge of a generation, and sustainability is the responsibility of all artists, designers and architects. From zero-waste design to architecture that considers rising sea levels, these works range from provocative, to grief-stricken, to cautiously hopeful.