The Open Guide to Glasgow

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====== Art in Glasgow ======
  * [[https://www.glasgowartmap.com/|Glasgow Art Map]] - //Glasgow Art Map is an online map and journal of contemporary art exhibitions happening in Glasgow. Through the mapping and archiving of contemporary art exhibitions, we aim to assist in connecting audiences to contemporary art in Glasgow and promote the organisations working within the city.//
  * [[https://www.gcaf.co.uk/|Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair]] - //This annual event appeals to those curious about contemporary art, the first time buyer, the art lover and the serious collector as a superb range of exhibitors, including art galleries and professional artists from across the UK, present a stunning range of art to view and buy with prices ranging from £50 to around £25,000.//
  * [[https://glasgowartclub.co.uk/|The Glasgow Art Club]] - //Located in the heart of the city, The Glasgow Art Club is the private members' club with a difference. Steeped in culture and heritage, The Glasgow Art Club has been a meeting place for generations of the city’s most innovative and creative inhabitants.//
  * [[https://glasgowinternational.org/|Glasgow International Festival 2020: 24 April - 10 May 2020]]
  * [[https://www.theroyalglasgowinstituteofthefinearts.co.uk/|The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts]] ([[http://www.royalglasgowinstitute.org|alt link]])
  * [[http://www.theglasgowmastersseries.org|The Glasgow Masters Series]] - //This site embraces numerous exhibitions and projects initiated by graduates of the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art.//
  * [[http://www.visualartsglasgow.co.uk|Visual Arts Glasgow]] - //Follow the events, stories and conversations from the city's visual arts venues here as they happen. Visual Arts Glasgow combines the image-based social media posts from the city's museums and galleries to keep you up to date with the latest news. //
  * [[https://www.citycentremuraltrail.co.uk/|City Centre Mural Trail]]
  * [[https://glasgowcan.org/|Glasgow Connected Arts Network (CAN)]] - //Glasgow Connected Arts Network is the cultural hub for the advancement of Participatory Arts in the City.//
  * [[https://www.3d2d.co.uk/|3D2D Events]] - //3D2D's core activity is organising events that provide makers, designers, craftworkers and artists with venues where they can exhibit their work and sell directly to the public. //
  * [[http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/|Glasgow - City of Sculpture]]

===== Art Centres/Spaces =====
  * See also [[Spaces]]
  * [[https://www.maryhillopenartspace.org/|Maryhill Open Art Space]] - //We are a supportive, creative community providing access to pottery and screen-printing facilities, at an affordable price. //
  * [[https://www.platform-online.co.uk/|Plat-form]] - //Platform is the arts centre at the heart of The Bridge, located in Easterhouse, offering a year-round programme of cutting edge performance, music, visual arts and participation. //
  * [[http://www.queensparkrailwayclub.co.uk|Queens Park Railway Club]] - //An artist run space located on the platform of Queens Park Railway Station on the South side of Glasgow. Run by Patrick Jameson and Ellis Luxemburg, the space has a continuing programme of events including exhibitions and residencies for artists and writers. //

===== Art House =====
  * [[https://www.cryptic.org.uk/|Cryptic]] - //Cryptic is a Glasgow based internationally-renowned producing art house, presenting today’s most imaginative, innovative artists whilst also nurturing the creative talent of tomorrow. //

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===== Blogs =====
  * [[https://galleryofmodernart.blog/news/|Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) Glasgow Blog]]
  * [[https://adamandgillian.co.uk/blog/|Adam & Gillian]]

===== Companies =====
  * [[https://www.objectora.com|Objectora]] - //Objectora is a company offering performance and solutions for performance art created in 2018 by Sònia Gardés.  We offer services for theatre and events including Visual Storytelling shows and puppetry for adults and children; Costume, Prop and Puppet Design and Making and Makeup and Bodypainting.//

===== Galleries =====
  * See [[Art Galleries]]

===== Glass =====
  * [[http://glasgowglass.blogspot.com/|RDW Glass - Stained Glass Studio Blog]]
  * [[http://rdwglass.com/|RDW Glass]] - Stained Glass and Fuss Glass Art Studio
  * [[http://www.glasspainter.com/|Glasspainter]] - //Architectural Glass Artist//
  * [[http://scotstainedglass.com/index.html|Scotland's Stained Glass]] - //Welcome to scotstainedglass.com, the website of author and researcher Michael Donnelly, and a hub for information on Scotland's rich heritage of stained glass.//

===== Projects =====
  * [[https://afterthepandemic.scot/|After The Pandemic]] - //After The Pandemic is an accelerator for change, incubating and enabling creative projects that impact our society, cities and the environment for the better. //
  * [[http://www.wee-folk-dancing.com/|Wee Folk Dancing]] - //This project called ”Wee Folk Dancing”, is a concept to create a series of sandblasted sandstone inlays surrounding the former church, St. Andrews in the Square. This was intended to be the first of a series of works using this theme to be developed within Glasgow. However, since beginning working on this project, I have completed a stone mosaic forming the entrance walkway for Oran Mor, in Glasgow’s West End.//
  * [[http://www.holdyourbreath.org/home/home.html|Hold Your Breath]]
  * [[http://www.glasgowfamilyalbum.com/|Glasgow Family Album]] - //Cranhill Arts Project are organising scanning sessions at venues across Glasgow.  You can come along with your family photos and have them scanned there and then and added to this site.//
  * [[https://sites.google.com/site/linkedvialight2/|Linked via Light - Westburn Viaduct - Bridge lighting project]] - //Tollcross Housing Association, Glasgow City Council and other stakeholders from Glasgow and South Lanarkshire have been working with Collective Architecture to develop lighting proposals for Westburn Viaduct.  The project, known as ‘Linked Via Light’, aims to work with young people to develop lighting designs to illuminate the bridge.//
  * [[http://gsaphoenix.blogspot.com/|Glasgow School of Art: Phoenix Bursaries]]
  * [[http://www.theworldthroughwoodeneyes.co.uk/|The World Through Wooden Eyes]] ([[https://twitter.com/wooden_eyes|Twitter]], [[https://www.facebook.com/TheWorldThroughWoodenEyes|Facebook]]) - //Creator of puppets, masks, paper sculpture, theatre props and creative puppet theatre performances. //
  * [[http://sacrificialmaterials.blogspot.com/|Sacrificial Materials]] - //Art and Public Space//
  * [[http://www.thetinforest.com|The Tin Forest]] - //A celebration of Glasgow’s industrial past and creative future. Taking place at the South Rotunda, across Glasgow and the Commonwealth.//
  * [[http://www.aboutuswithoutus.com/|Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us]] - //A public art event using obsolete technology to hurl language across Glasgow's River Clyde 
Led by Matt Baker & t s Beall, as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012//
  * [[http://www.villagestorytelling.org.uk|The Village Storytelling Centre]]
  * [[https://www.project-ability.co.uk/|Project Ability]] - //Project Ability, established in 1984, is a Glasgow-based visual arts organisation with an international reputation for excellence. We create opportunities for people with disabilities and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, aged 5 years to 80 plus, to express themselves and achieve their artistic potential.//
  * [[https://www.tron.co.uk/creative/|TRON Creative]] - //We work to encourage and signal-boost the current generation of artists making theatre in Glasgow. With a busy programme of professional learning, residencies and public previews of brand-new performance we are committed to keeping our doors open, offering a vibrant and welcoming environment.//


  * [[http://glasgowwoodenbikeproject.wordpress.com|Glasgow Wooden Bike Project]] - //This exhibition showcases examples of recent projects and finished previous works from the makers and is a celebration of the current innovative maker culture within the city of Glasgow, uncovering invention, creativity, resourcefulness and a make do and mend approach to problems of everyday life.// 
  * [[http://teameffortglasgow.com|Team Effort!]] - //Team Effort! was a twelve-month artist development project for six artists from different disciplines, based at the Southside Studios in Glasgow.//
  * [[http://www.glasgow-styles.de|Glasgow Styles]] - //In August and September 2008, Thyes worked in Glasgow, Scotland, as artist in residence at 'Wasps Artists' Studios', with a grant by the cities of Dusseldorf and Glasgow. In 2009, she digitally edited her photographs and completed the series// 
  * [[http://glasgowmiracle.blogspot.co.uk|The Glasgow Miracle: Materials for Alternative Histories]] - //The Glasgow School of Art in partnership with the CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, has been awarded a significant grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a speculative research project that will open up previously inaccessible archive material to assist research and reflection upon the causes and conditions which encouraged the renaissance of the visual arts in Glasgow since the late 1970s.//
  * [[http://www.giventothepeople.org/|Give To The People]] - //Given To The People is a study of the Pollok Free State. The Free State was initiated by the actions of local resident, Colin Macleod, who began a tree top protest against the building of the M77 motorway through public woodlands in Pollok, Glasgow, in the early 1990s. //

===== Groups =====
  * [[https://www.gswa.org.uk/|The Glasgow Society of Woman Artists]] - //Originally established in 1882 by eight of the first women students at the Glasgow School of Art, the group flourished until 1971 when sadly it was disbanded due to financial pressures. However it was revived in 1975 as the Glasgow Society of Women Artists and currently enjoys a membership of around 164 artists and 48 lay members.//
  * [[https://www.crmsociety.com/|The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society]]
  * [[https://glasgowartclub.co.uk/|Glasgow Art Club]]
  * [[https://glasgowfinearts.wordpress.com/|Glasgow Antiques and Fine Arts Society]]
  * [[https://www.gswa.org.uk/|Glasgow Society of Women Artists]]
  * [[http://atyn.co.uk/glasgow-life-drawing/|All The Young Nudes: Glasgow Life Drawing]]
  * [[http://www.plantation.org.uk/|Plantation Productions]] - //Plantation Productions was set up by its founder (Moya Crowley) in 2001 with a £2,000 grant from the Greater Govan Community Forum. Since then, it has always been our aim to use the arts as a tool for community development and regeneration.//
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/CheekyBesom/|Cheeky Besom Productions]] - //'Artists with Attitude': A Glasgow based artist collective, making and creating, for the love of art//.
  * [[http://whitehouseglasgow.blogspot.com|White House Glasgow]] - //The WhiteHouse Glasgow is an artists established/run no fixed abode promoter of exciting art and artists in Glasgow.//
  * [[http://sustainablepractice.org/|The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts]] - //A Think Tank for Sustainability in the Arts and Culture.  The CSPA’s activities include research and initiatives positioning arts and culture as a driver of a sustainable society.//

===== Shops =====
  * [[https://www.scottishdesignexchange.com/|Scottish Design Exchange]] - //Stores that sell exquisitely designed products by artists living in Scotland and where every penny spent by our customers goes directly to those who create.//
  * [[https://www.arthireframing.co.uk/|Art Hire Framing]] - //Art Hire Framing was established in 1988 by Mark Greer, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s prestigious Fine Art Department, with the aim of providing the highest quality hand finished frames to artists, galleries and collectors.//
  * [[https://www.cassart.co.uk/locations/glasgow|Cass Art: Glasgow]] - // Our Glasgow shop is located on Queen Street in the heart of the city. The shop is less than a hundred yards from the Gallery of Modern Art and a 10-minute walk from the Glasgow School Of Art.  Our shop includes the Art Space – designed especially for workshops and exhibitions to celebrate and support the local community. For enquiries about using the Art Space please contact glasgowartspace@cassart.co.uk//
  * [[https://www.glasgowstreets.com/|Glasgow Streets]] - //Prints of old Glasgow street scenes by Ian Mulholland//
===== Studios =====
  * [[https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/|Wasp Studios]] - //As Scotland’s studio specialists, we’ve been providing artists, makers & creators with inspiring spaces and places to work from for over 40 years. We operate and manage 20 character filled buildings across the country, providing a canvas for creativity for almost 1,000 creative practitioners & businesses. Join our community and ignite your creative practice.//
  * [[http://www.artscraftsglasgow.co.uk|The Studio]] - //Specialists in a range of original items from the arts & crafts movement//
  * [[https://rectangle.design/|Rectangle]] - //Rectangle is a graphic and interaction design studio based in Glasgow, Scotland and founded by Daniel Powers (US) and Lizzie Malcolm (UK) in August 2017. We work with information and technology and content and form to develop projects in various media.//
  * [[https://www.janglingspace.org/|Jangling Space]] - //Co-operative makerspace//
===== Supplies =====
  * [[http://drawartstore.com|DRAW Art Store]] - //Graphic Arts & Fine Stationary//
  * [[http://www.millers-art.co.uk/|Millers Art]]

===== Theatre =====
  * [[http://workerstheatre.co.uk/|The Workers Theatre]] - //The Workers Theatre is a new project to create a co-operatively owned and managed theatre in Scotland. We’re launching with residencies, collaborations and pop-up events, working towards opening a new venue.//

===== Other =====
  * [[https://www.ragandboneworkshop.co.uk/|The Rag and Bone Workshop]] - //Martin Campbell is a Glasgow-based designer maker. He grew up on the Hebridean island of Beinn nam Fadhla (Benbecula) among a community for which pragmatism, resourcefulness and co-operation was everyday. These early experiences have strongly shaped his interests in creativity and making, and in 2011 he established ‘The Rag and Bone Workshop’.//
  * [[http://bildwechselglasgow.wordpress.com|Bildwechsel Glasgow]] - //We are Bildwechsel in Glasgow – screenings, events, networking, archiving, working with and building connections with artists, filmmakers, curators, researchers, organisations.  Bildwechsel is an umbrella organisation for women in media, culture and art.//

===== Street =====
  * [[http://www.conzo.co.uk/|Conzo Throb]] - //Based in Glasgow, Conzo has been steadily creating works for the past decade which span multiple creative disciplines. With an armoury of skills rooted in illustrative graffiti, his work and style is usually character based and features unique image-play on both the ugly and the cute. Having travelled the world with showing his work, Conzo’s satirical paintings, based on humorous nuances of Scottish life keep him solidly tied to his roots and make him one of the UK’s finest artists in his field.//
  * [[https://www.instagram.com/negativedestination/|Negative Destination]]
  * [[https://www.instagram.com/rogueoner/|Rogue One]] ([[https://www.facebook.com/R0GUE0NER/|Facebook]])
  * [[https://mark-worst-tfcf.squarespace.com/|Mark Worst]]
  * [[https://www.colourways.scot/|Colourways]] - //Colour Ways Glasgow CIC was founded in May 2020. We are an artist led organisation which aims to support and promote graffiti and street art within Glasgow. We curate murals, host walking tours, have an online shop for selling artwork and we also host street art and graffiti workshops with young people across the city.nt for artists looking to get busy thinking up brilliant new work to populate future Tron programmes.//
  * See also [[Graffiti]]

===== Defunct =====
  * [[http://www.chateau.eclipse.co.uk/chateau/chateaumain.htm|The Chateau]] ([[http://www.chateau.eclipse.co.uk/chateau/|alt link]]) - // Arts space in Glasgow circa 2003-2006, 143 Oxford Street //
  * [[https://neil.mckillop.org/the_chateau_institute_of_technology|ChIT, the Chateau Institute of Technology]]
  * [[http://www.sorchadallas.com/|Sorcha Dallas]] - //As of October 2011, the Sorcha Dallas gallery spaces are closed. An archive of all gallery activities will be maintained here.//
  * [[https://drawdukestreet.wordpress.com/|The Duke Street Diaries: Draw Duke Street]]
  * [[http://nva.org.uk/|NVA]] - //NVA’s mission is to make powerful public art that reaffirms people’s connection to the built and natural heritage.//
  * [[https://peterdrewarts.blogspot.com/|Peter Drew Arts]] - //This blog features the published articles of Peter Drew. Born in Adelaide, Drew is a freelance arts writer and street artist. He currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland.//
  * [[http://www.theartworksprogramme.org/|The Artworks Programme: Gorbals]] - //An award winning programme of artist-led public art took place alongside the most recent wholesale reconstruction of the iconic Glasgow neighbourhood - Gorbals.  This website is the web diary of the project between 1999 and 2005, retained as a public archive//

===== Defunct =====
  * [[http://www.cca-glasgow.com|CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts]]
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