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16 Collective, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow (2026)

20/06/2026

Introducing the relaunch of Sapphic Cinema Club programme

Sapphic Cinema Club is a q***r film screening series by 16 Collective led by curator, Nancy Holt. The club celebrates le***an film as a distinct genre, offering a space for sapphics and allies to come together, watch films, show their work and realign with their community. With continued funding support by Film Hub Scotland, SCC is excited to launch a new 2026/2027 programme of screenings, starting with a Scottish premiere of Barbara Forever during Pride Month at the GFT. More info will follow!

17/06/2026

Final days to see 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴/𝘢𝘴 open 12 - 6pm until this Sunday 21st June for Glasgow International feat. artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents, Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense, and Camara Taylor.

Taylor’s work 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑 (𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑎) takes the form of a storyboard for a film never realised. A thermal print strip on receipt paper unfurls, sequencing the artist’s ongoing inquiry into cyclical timelines of racialised violence on the Clyde, from 1919 to 2019.
The film dredges through the Clyde’s silted riverbed for imperial debris, asking what makes possible a hundred-year loop of racial violence: from the Broomielaw Race Riots of 1919, in which an armed mob of hundreds of white shipyard workers attacked a group of Black, African, Chinese and South Asian sailors, to 2019, when a Black man fleeing police died in the River Clyde.
Through Taylor’s storyboard, the image stack accumulates like history: layers pressing against the unseeable. Situated against a wall coated in Blackstrap molasses, a material vestige of colonial plantation-economy trade in sugar and rum along the Clyde, the work questions what remains ungrieved in the river silt.

𝑇h𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝐷𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 by Extense draws on the field of nuclear semiotics (the study of how to communicate warnings about nuclear waste to future generations across timescales beyond the imagined lives of the present). The installation uses visual forms from the Hunterston nuclear power stations A and B to draft fragile codes and messages; taking up the semiotics of warning as a form of transtemporal care. Thistles appear out of steel, referencing plants that invade and remediate contaminated post-nuclear landscapes, and the field of spiked forms iconic of early nuclear semiotics. Metal plates are corroded and etched through electro etching, using salt water collected by the artists from the Firth of the Clyde, enacting an accelerated process of decay, akin to the suspension and reorganisation of time in an always deferred field.

📷 6-7. Matthew Cosslett

📷Eoin Carey

09/06/2026

Open now in Tuesday to Sunday, 12-6pm: River is/as is a group exhibition presented by 16 Collective that takes the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological.

The research-led exhibition shares a new body of works reflecting over two years of collective artistic fieldwork, research voyages, and collaborative field study along the Clyde River corridor, by artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor.
River is/as occupies a hydrological vantage point on Glasgow, understanding the river Clyde as a vessel of multiple and overlapping stories, subjects, and social imaginaries of the city.

Featuring immersive installations, moving images, and sonic environments, the project maps the Clyde’s sedimented histories and infrastructural futures.

Presented as part of Glasgow International 2026. Supported by Creative Scotland and the access grant.

1. ‘Iconography of radiance, mistaken for red light’ by Matthew Cosslett (2026)
2. ‘untitled (towards turba)’ by Camara Taylor
3. ‘So Often Returning to the Same Place’ by Maria Howard
4. ‘The Eternal Emissions of A Dying Star’ by Extense .96kbps
5. River is/as exhibition handout, cover image: ‘(towards turba) research scan’ by Camara Taylor (2026)
6. ‘untitled (towards turba)’ by Camara Taylor
Thermal print, receipt paper roll, archival images, found footage, newsreel, Blackstrap molasses, water
7. ‘Dual Use, Dual Voice’ by Zsuzsanna Ihar
8. ‘Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion’ by Leela Jadhav, Khem Rogaly, Pinelopi Gardika from the Transition Security Project (Common Wealth)

31/05/2026

𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔/𝒂𝒔 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆: 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔

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We would like to invite you to two workshops with that bring together poetry and DIY microbiology as ways of sensing the Clyde and its microbial inhabitants.

What languages and practices might we need to reach for or dream up in relating to rivers beyond extractive and anthropocentric ways of thinking?

If you want to show the council your water is polluted, what could a poem do to help?

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free registration, link in bio

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝟭: 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀/𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲
📆 15 June, 3-5pm
📍Glasgow Green (meet at 5 Florence st.)

We’ll explore ways of sampling bacterial life in the River Clyde, practising and playing with DIY microbiology methods alongside creative prompts. We’ll use field lab equipment to take water samples from the river, and follow some scientific recipes to grow the bacteria that call the water and soil home.

The bacterial ‘cultures’ we collect will then be housed in the exhibition space, where they’ll incubate and grow before the second workshop.

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝟤: 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀/𝗮𝘀 𝗩𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹
📆 20 June, 12.45-2.45pm
📍Tramway (meet at reception)

This workshop will involve collaborative creative writing with each other and the microbes from the Clyde. In it, we’ll work with bacterial samples that have been incubating in the exhibition space, trying out different ways to perceive the river taken out of the river. What can we sense through slime, shimmer, transparency, yellowing? What if there’s ‘nothing’ there?

Alongside the bacterial cultures, we’ll assemble and respond to other materials – plants, DIY nutrient broth, environmental reports, local knowledge – through poetic experiments. . From what emerges through the workshops (both writing and bacteria!), we hope to generate a polyvocal text that we can share in the workshop.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 is a hybrid work and research group consisting of Katy Lewis Hood and Jac Common, which attends to q***r, anticolonial, and nonhuman lifeways in wet-land ecologies.

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1: Katy Lewis Hood
2: Jac Common
3: Kelly Rappleye

29/05/2026

Almost a week to the opening of 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 exhibition in presenting a new body of works by Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor.

Occupying a hydrological vantage point on the Glasgow, 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 takes the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological.

Join us Saturday 6 June, 5 - 7 pm, at 5 Florence Street for the opening reception and a special opening event.

The event features a live performance of Bint Mbareh and Sonia Levy’s new sound commission ‘War Sirens’ (2026), along with a talk, and discussion with exhibiting artist Zsuzsanna Ihar and researchers Khem Rhogaly, Pinelopi Gardika and Leela Jadhav from Transition Security Project (Common Wealth), with exhibition curator Kelly Rappleye .

Alongside the artists’ works, the exhibition presents a visual display of “Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion”, a research project by Pinelopi Gardika, Leela Jadhav, and Khem Rogaly, supported by the Transition Security Project (Common Wealth). Employing 3D modelling, video, and a historical timeline of industrial conversion across the UK, US, and Europe, the project draws on interviews with workers at Govan and Scotstoun shipyards to model what a future away from military production, and towards public good and green energy, could look like along the Clyde.

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Image: Extense (2025)

5 - 21 June
Open: Tues - Sun, 12-6pm
1st Floor, 5 Florence St, G5 0YX

18/05/2026

Join us on for the opening event of our exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 in , on Saturday 6 June, 5 - 7 pm, on the groundfloor of 5 Florence Street

The exhibition opening drinks reception will be followed by 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙡𝙮𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚: 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨, featuring a live performance of & new sound commission 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴.
A talk with the artists, exhibition curator Kelly Rappleye and researchers Khem Rhogaly, Pinelopi Gardika & Leela Jadhav from and will present “𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙡𝙮𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚: 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣”, a research project building on interviews with workers at Govan & Scotstoun shipyards to model what industrial conversion could look like.

In our state of endless war and calls for re-armament, this event asks what artistic methods can offer in terms of reimagining riverine topographies. Clydeside shipbuilding histories are often invoked to justify ongoing UK government investment in military production at these industrial sites, promising jobs and security, and obscuring the realities of violence and labour precarity.

What forms of imaging and sensing do we need to break centuries-long cycles of Western, imperial violence and hydro-colonialism? Can the Clyde teach us new ways of being, a hydrosocial transformation?

🌀 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 is a research-led group exhibition, presenting a new body of work by artists Matthew Cosslett, Maria Howard, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Coneffluents (Jac Common and Katy Lewis Hood), Sonia Levy and Bint Mbareh, Extense (Dianne Burdon and Clara Hancock), and Camara Taylor.

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-Event will be live captioned
-Captioned version of 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴 available
Drop-in welcome but Booking encouraged, limited capacity

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-1970s, poster ‘The Socially Useful Show. Poster Number 7’ exhibition, Peter Kennard, Mayday rooms archives.
-Research modelling image, Common Wealth
-𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴 (2026) Levy & Mbareh

14/05/2026

Meet the artists in our upcoming exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀 in 2026!

𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿 is an artist living in Glasgow. They tend to make still and moving images, texts, events and installations that act as moments of stasis in an enduring unravelling… often encircling the accumulation and dissolution of image, language, and (black) presence; geographies; madness; movement; pressing against imperial structures in and outwith - Scotland.

Taylor’s work in this exhibition builds on the artist’s long-term engagement with the River Clyde as imperial waterway, carrying cyclical timelines of racialised violence from the years 1919 - 2019. The work revolves around the storyboard for a film never realised, and the river as a vessel of narrative frames for history and civic identity. The film, too, as a rant, a ramble and tentative vessel for the debris of past projects situated along the Clyde.

📷 Untitled (blue re/decomposition 2015, 2022), installation view, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022. Photographed at 1 week, Photo by Tom Nolan.
📷 Artist Photo credit: Yasmin Harrison
𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀
Presented by 16 Collective, the exhibition occupies a hydrological vantage point on Glasgow, taking the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological.
— Scotland’s biennial of contemporary art. Free & open to all, 5–21 June 2026.
Where: 16 Collective, 1st Floor FR01, 5 Florence Street, Gorbals, Glasgow, G5 0YX
Visit: Tues–Sunday, 5–21 June 2026

14/05/2026

Meet the artists in our upcoming exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀 in 2026!

Matthew Cosslett (b. atop Bennane hill, Ballantrae) is a Scottish artist who works mostly with cameras and sound. They received their MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2021), the Margaret Tait Residency (2022) and are currently a participant at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

In this exhibition, Cosslett’s thermal poetics are presented in a single-channel projection.

📷Matthew Cosslett, ‘Iconography of radiance, mistaken for red light ’, (2026). Courtesy of the artist.

𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀
Presented by 16 Collective, the exhibition occupies a hydrological vantage point on Glasgow, taking the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological.

— Scotland’s biennial of contemporary art. Free & open to all.
Where: 16 Collective, 1st Floor FR01, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX
Visit: Tues–Sunday, 5–21 June 2026

13/05/2026

Meet the artists in our upcoming exhibition 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀presented in 2026!

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 is a hybrid work and research group consisting of Katy Lewis Hood and Jac Common, which attends to q***r, anticolonial, and nonhuman lifeways in wet-land ecologies and infrastructures through poetry, essays, and image-making. Their project asks how we might dissolve the planetary geometries of capitalism’s force with bathymetric micro-logics and bacterial molecularity.

Taking the form of a microbiological sampling laboratory — a carrier apparatus and orbital lab shaker — their work brings the River Clyde into the exhibition space with living and incubating water samples. Coneffluents invites you, the audience, to activate their sculptural installation through two workshops that bring together poetry and DIY microbiology as ways of sensing the Clyde and its microbial inhabitants.
You are welcome to join one or both workshops, further details and registration to follow.

𝗝𝗮𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻
is a writer and researcher from Nottingham, with a PhD in evolutionary microbiology from the University of Exeter. Their debut poetry pamphlet, Wetbulb, was published by Osmosis Press in 2024.
𝗞𝗮𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝗼𝗱
Katy is an interdisciplinary researcher, with a PhD on watery poetics and enduring geographies of colonialism from Queen Mary UofL. Their collaborative poetic practice seeks to develop experimental methods for sensing material and socio-ecological infrastructures and uneven geographies, focusing on questions of energy production and social reproduction, land dispossession and property, and dynamics of distance, remote/situatedness, and intimacy.

𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨/𝙖𝙨 🌀
Presented by 16 Collective, the exhibition occupies a hydrological vantage point on Glasgow as the Second City of Empire, taking the River Clyde as a critical geography: infrastructural, social, and ecological.

— Scotland’s biennial of contemporary art. Free & open to all.
Where: 16 Collective, 1st Floor FR01, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX
Visit: Tues–Sunday, 5–21 June 2026

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