Glasgow International

Glasgow International Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art. Friday 5 June – Sunday 21 June 2026
(PV 4 June)

NOW AVAILABLE – GI2026 Limited Editions Andrew Cranston The Brodie Set, 2016 - 2026 Etching on paper Size: 30 x 24.5 cm ...
21/06/2026

NOW AVAILABLE – GI2026 Limited Editions

Andrew Cranston

The Brodie Set, 2016 - 2026

Etching on paper

Size: 30 x 24.5 cm

Edition of 40, signed and numbered

Launch price £ 840 inc. VAT unframed

For Glasgow International 2026, Andrew Cranston has created a special etching in an edition of 40.

Andrew Cranston’s edition relates to a 2016 series of prints made by the artist in response to the Scottish novel, Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

“There is a scene in the film where Miss Brodie and her girls are on an outing to the museum on Chambers Street. As I watched it I started thinking of a scene they could have done using the fish that used to be in a tiled pond in the entrance hall.

So this image began life as a print, an etching. An image driven by shape. To me paintings must have a strong abstraction in them, however representational they might be. I hoped the dark shapes of fish would convey some sense of threat, of impending war, a game of battleships.” Andrew Cranston

These editions are co-published by Glasgow International and Glasgow Print Studio, with proceeds directly supporting both organisations.

NOW AVAILABLE – GI2026 Limited EditionsLorna Robertson The colour of waiting, 2026 Drypoint etching on paper Size: 42 x ...
21/06/2026

NOW AVAILABLE – GI2026 Limited Editions

Lorna Robertson

The colour of waiting, 2026

Drypoint etching on paper

Size: 42 x 36 cm

Edition of 12, signed and numbered

Launch price £720 inc. VAT unframed


For Glasgow International 2026, Lorna Robertson has created a drypoint etching in an edition of 12.

Robertson’s creative impulse is initially an abstract one, focusing on shapes and their placement and proportions. She began this print using the spit bite process, working directly with acid onto the etching plate. Trying to control and manipulate these puddles of acid invites a certain loss of control, which for the artist is important in her artistic process, to initiate accidents and chance. In the manner of a Rorschach test these marks suggest form leading to an intuitive space where relationships of tone and line are explored. Robertson’s concern is with pictorial harmony and tension and how regardless of whatever figurative tropes or imagery used (head - jug- flowers) a mood is created through the language of drawing.

20/06/2026

We are delighted to share the second of our short films by artist Jen Martin capturing some of the 2026

Tomorrow is the final chance to catch many (but not all) of the exhibitions or events at . Here’s a check list of those...
20/06/2026

Tomorrow is the final chance to catch many (but not all) of the exhibitions or events at . Here’s a check list of those closing on Sunday, get planning!

Strange Evidence, Michelle Williams Gamaker
James Gladwell, Project Ability
Flat, Renèe Helèna Browne
Springburn Sculpture Park, Mandy McIntosh
Finite Structures, Bettina
River is/as, Camara Taylor, Coneffluents, Extense, Zsuzsanna Ihar, Maria Howard, Sonia Levy, Bint Mbareh, Matthew Cosslett
in the guise of the commonplace, Mira Adoumier, Carine Doumit, Hannan Jones
aweys gaun, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie
defend the dead, Tami Elkilani, Inès Heddar, Mana Tashakorinia, Myles Westman
The Subtle Body, Katy Dove, Lygia Clark
Hard Lines, Lisette May Monroe
Quiet Folds Dispersing You, Sooun Kim
The delight of walking alone, Anya Paintsil
Daybook, Amelia Barratt, Anna Paterson
A star that burns forever is a star that burns in me, Tahliah Simumba
Light Sown in Memoriam, Bex Šik, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, Adam McNeil
This Home, This Voice, Maryhill Integration Network, Helen McCrorie, Annabel Wright
Milngavie Columbo, Hussein Mitha, Jamie Bolland, Nadia Rossi, Bex Šik, Joey Simons
No one is ready, Iris Touliatou
Protect Me From What I Know, Jill Westwood, Sohrab Hura, Adam Lewis Jacob
Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown, Aqsa Arif
The Backbone, Ayesha Jones
Screen Bodies, Kate Cooper
Plantation, Rehana Zaman
Tropical Hardware, Tanoa Sasraku

It's the final weekend of . We hope you get a chance to experience exhibitions you have not yet. Today, Fire Stories re...
20/06/2026

It's the final weekend of . We hope you get a chance to experience exhibitions you have not yet.

Today, Fire Stories returns for its final performance, so please do join us if you are able at 2pm.

And this evening you can join artists Imani Mason Jordan and Rehana Zaman for a conversation marking the sumer solstice. The event also features a performance by Imani referring to their newly published poetry work PIVOT. Some tickets are still available and we'd love to see you there.

And finally today is the last day of both Luke Fowler at 5 Florence Street and Irineu Destourelles in the Glasgow Room at Mitchell Library.

Image: Film still from The Fire That Never Went Out, 2026 by Keira McLean

GO WEST Begin your visits to some of the festival's most iconic spaces at the Heritage Wing of Kelvin Hall. Entering the...
19/06/2026

GO WEST

Begin your visits to some of the festival's most iconic spaces at the Heritage Wing of Kelvin Hall. Entering the cavernous industrial the grandeur and atmosphere, the first exhibition you come to is Kate Cooper’s Screen Bodies - a new work exploring the relationship between bodily affect and the ways ideas of fascism have found form in the everyday.

Rehana Zaman’s Plantation fills the rear hall with an exploration of land use, labour and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers and presents two new films within an immersive sculptural landscape. Look out for associated events this weekend.

A saunter up through the beautiful Kelvingrove Park brings you to The Hunterian, University of Glasgow where Naeem Mohaiemen’s Through a Mirror Darkly revisits the turbulent 1970s – a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments.

Images:
Kate Cooper, Screen Bodies, 2026. Image courtesy of Matthew Barnes
Rehana Zaman, Plantation. Image courtesy of Matthew Barnes
Naeem Mohaiemen, THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY (still), 2025. Image courtesy of Artangel, London

Jericho Mars – My heart is drenched in blood! My heart is drenched in blood! Part of , this exhibition includes approach...
19/06/2026

Jericho Mars – My heart is drenched in blood! My heart is drenched in blood! Part of , this exhibition includes approaches to accessibility that form how the artworks can be experienced and engaged with. Access is considered as part of the artworks and the exhibition itself.

An audio described walkthrough has been developed in collaboration between Jericho Mars and with and Kirin Saeed. You can access the full AD walkthrough on the Tramway and GI websites before visiting. The listening time is 40 mins.

At Tramway, you can pick up an MP3 player with pre-loaded AD tracks and over-ear headphones from the box office opposite Gallery T5. The MP3 players contain 18 tracks including a 6 minute intro exploring the exhibition’s themes, questions, preoccupations and context. Additional tracks may be added during the exhibition’s run.

A second pair of over-ear headphones playing a looped recording of text displayed on the teleprompter — and a tactile model of the seating structure Wheeling — can be provided by an invigilator at the entrance to the exhibition.

A BSL introduction that includes the artist’s notes for the interpreter can be viewed outside the entrance to the exhibition. The BSL introduction was created by Ruaridh Lever Hogg / Rulu Media, with the artist.

An accessible, expanded exhibition text introducing the artworks and the exhibition’s questions is available as a paper handout on the wall outside the gallery.
The show runs until 9 August.

Opening times
17 - 19, 21 Jun, 12pm - 5pm
20 Jun, 12pm - 6pm
Wed 24 Jun - Sun 9 Aug
Wed - Fri & Sun, 12pm - 5pm
Sat, 12pm - 6pm

Collective Text is a disabled and Deaf artist-led worker collective based in Scotland who practice access-as-artform, advocating for accessibility and sustainable working conditions across the arts. SoundScribe is a global majority collective of audio describers and editors, specialising in subjective, embodied access encounters for performance, contemporary art and moving image. Kirin Saeed is a visually impaired actor, playwright and disability activist.

GI warmly thanks all collaborators for their care in developing these access resources.

Image 1: Kirin and Elaine sit on a work under construction called “Wheeling” – a plywood tiered seating structure, like an amphitheatre. They are wearing headphones, smiling and holding the tactile model “Wheeling” that fits comfortably in two hands. On the wall behind, hangs a faded white banner called “ALL YOU CAN EAT WORLD BUFFET”.

Image 2: Wide view of the gallery from the corner where the back wall meets the entrance wall. Hung on the back of the plywood structure “Wheeling” is a large photograph framed in dark oak called “Spoon”. Set against a jet-black background, a silver spoon appears to float horizontally in space; it contains an infinity of reflections. An oak leaf on a plinth is near the large windows, covered floor to ceiling with swirls and splashes of chalky residue. Metal tram tracks embedded into the floor curve around “Wheeling”. A bright spotlight from the work “Mercury steals Apollo's cattle” glares at us from the lighting rig overhead, like a sun or star.

Image 3: Detail of a mark on the white gallery wall. From this close-up perspective, less than a finger’s width away, the mark seems like a wound or graze. Perhaps it’s a trace of something heavy scraping against the wall. The cut reveals layers of paint with hints of red.

Today, alongside the variety of exhibitions across the city, there are two brilliant events taking place. At Kelvin Hall...
19/06/2026

Today, alongside the variety of exhibitions across the city, there are two brilliant events taking place.

At Kelvin Hall, Disrupting Space: Sharing Practice is an event by three artists within the Outer Spaces Glasgow studio network - Gianni Esporas, Olivia Priya Foster, and Amy Louise Lawrence. Responding to Martinican writer Édouard Glissant’s concept of “trembling thinking” and its embrace of fluid, relational, and non-fixed perspectives, the performance considers the buildings occupied by Outer Spaces in a “meanwhile” capacity, especially the Merchant City.

And at the Glenburn Centre, Platform presents Fire Stories - a multimedia project led by artist Keira McLean in collaboration with filmmaker Caireen Stuart and animator Akvile Dirmauskaite. Co-designed and produced with residents of Easterhouse, a neighbourhood in the northeast of Glasgow, the project aims to unearth the histories of Greater Easterhouse through a series of participatory workshops and culminates in this special community performance. Check out more in the links and get your tickets to join us.

Images: Film stills from The Fire That Never Went Out, 2026 by Keira McLean

There is still an opportunity to join us on Sunday 21 June for an afternoon of film screenings and conversation with art...
18/06/2026

There is still an opportunity to join us on Sunday 21 June for an afternoon of film screenings and conversation with artists Onyeka Igwe and Michelle Williams Gamaker

Building on her research project A (speculative) history of (colonial) reparations, Igwe will present A Radical Duet, a film that reflects on absence, restitution and the afterlives of colonial archives. Michelle Williams Gamaker will screen Thieves, part of her ongoing project Fictional Revenge and wider series Critical Affection, in which cinematic histories are reimagined through acts of speculative redress.

Following the screenings, the artists will be in conversation, offering insight into their approaches to research and filmmaking.

Michelle Williams Gamaker's film Strange Evidence, presented by Offline Glasgow is also part of the Glasgow International, and runs until 21 June. This event is produced in collaboration with the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow

The event is now sold out, but a limited number of walk-in places will be available on the day.

Our lunch break tip today is a trip to the The Mitchell Library . There you can find two exhibitions. In the Glasgow Roo...
18/06/2026

Our lunch break tip today is a trip to the The Mitchell Library . There you can find two exhibitions.

In the Glasgow Room is a newly commissioned installation from Glasgow-based artist Irineu Destourelles - Faint Light of the World with Contradictions. It explores how conflicting historical narratives are embodied within postcolonial, multilingual, and diasporic identities. This exhibition closes on Saturday. And throughout the library, Wound Duty presents photographic work by Alice Brooke, centring on a new series of silver gelatin prints produced through experimental darkroom processes, which imagines the smartphone as both wound and portal.

There is also still time to grab a ticket for tomorrow’s Disrupting Space: Sharing Practice at Kelvin Hall .

Gianni Esporas, TH4Y(2022)
BLACK EATING CLUB, part of HUNGRY GHOSTS - photo by Sophie Okonkwo
Olivia Priya Foster - photo by Gamme Dagger

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