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Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡Liquid Land, Jasmine Togo Brisby .togo_brisby Presented by Liquid Land marks the d...
14/04/2026

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Liquid Land, Jasmine Togo Brisby .togo_brisby

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Liquid Land marks the debut European solo exhibition by Australian South Sea Islander artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby. Presented at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art , Liquid Land presents new site-specific installations and sculptural works. Exploring histories of enslavement and domestic labour whilst tracing relationships across the Pacific, Australia, and wider dialogues about the transatlantic slave trade, these works illuminate the global scope of industries and exploitation.

Spanning sculpture, photography, installation, and video, Jasmine’s multidisciplinary practice is a profound exploration of “blackbirding”, the nineteenth century practice of deceiving or kidnapping Pacific Islanders for forced labour on Australian sugar plantations.

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📍 Liquid Land is presented at the Gallery of Modern Art, June 5 - September 6. Visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

Liquid Land is commissioned by Glasgow International through support from core funders and Henry Moore Foundation, with presentation support from Glasgow Museums. This exhibition is additionally supported by the Glasgow 2026 Festival which is designed to complement the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, activating the city through culture and sport and inviting everyone to get involved as part of the wider public celebrations.

Images Captions

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Can you see us now? 2024, cast plaster. Photo by Max Bull-Crossan Jasmine Togo-Brisby,

As Above, So Below, 2022–23, plaster, 9820 × 2850mm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, purchased with funds provided by Geoff Ainsworth AM and Johanna Featherstone, 2023.

Mother Tongue, single-channel video, sound, 9 min 30 sec, edition of 3 + AP. 2022

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, unrefined sugar and epoxy resin, objects 140 × 190 × 145mm (each), installed dimensions variable. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Bitter Sweet 2015

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡The Backbone, Ayesha Jones Presented by Ayesha Jones’s The Backbone is a photogra...
10/04/2026

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

The Backbone, Ayesha Jones

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Ayesha Jones’s The Backbone is a photographic series exploring idiopathic scoliosis as a lens to address female health more broadly. This intimate work brings together personal narratives and collective life stories, illuminating the experiences of females who have been historically marginalised in medical discourse, and includes newly commissioned writing by Pelumi Odubanjo, Natalie Mann, and Roma Bansil.

The Backbone invites viewers to engage in critical conversations about identity, health, and the power of storytelling, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities of the female body and issuing a call to action for equitable healthcare.

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📍 The Backbone is at Street Level Photoworks, 5 – 21 June, visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

The Backbone is presented in partnership with GRAIN Projects and Royal Photographic Society.

Images:

Ayesha Jones, The Backbone, 2025

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown, Aqsa Arif .arif.artPresented by Beneath the Ivo...
10/04/2026

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown, Aqsa Arif .arif.art

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Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown from Scottish Pakistani interdisciplinary artist Aqsa Arif combines moving image installation and textile photo prints, crafting a narrative of the Lakshmi/Yakshi/Nymph, oscillating between South Asian ancestral memory and western assimilation.
Drawing on resonances between South Asian and Greco-Roman mythic forms, Aqsa embodies the misnamed “Pompeii Lakshmi,” a first-century CE Indian ivory statuette discovered in 1938. Estranged from her origins as a yakshi and reshaped through translation and reclassification, her avatar becomes a site of composite identity, reflecting historical Roman practices in which imported deities and motifs were absorbed, adapted, and transformed within visual culture.

By centring diasporic experiences of misidentification and identity slippage, Aqsa reframes belonging as historically layered rather than fixed, encouraging audiences to reconsider inherited narratives and imagine more expansive genealogies of belonging.

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📍 Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown is at Street Level Photoworks, 5 – 21 June, visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown is supported by Hope Scott Trust, Street Level Photoworks, and Glasgow International.

Images:

Aqsa Arif, Beneath the Ivory is Molten Brown, 2026
Aqsa Arif, The Mountain of Light, 2022
Aqsa Arif, The Mountain of Light, 2022

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡Untitled, James Gladwell Presented by Project Ability presents James Gladwell’s ...
09/04/2026

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Untitled, James Gladwell

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Project Ability presents James Gladwell’s cross-stitched drawings, which vary in scale and feature intricate, colourful images drawn from James’s life and experiences.

Born into a Romany Gypsy family in 1950s Essex, James was taught how to sew by his grandmother. He spent his early life on the road or running away from various homes and authorities, before spending time at a training centre in Essex where his sewing skills developed further. In 1981 James found Barrington Farm in Norfolk, where his artistic talents flourished, and exhibition opportunities began to arise.

Winner of several prizes including the Norwich Assembly House Art Show prize, the Outside In Award as part of Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, and the Brown&Co prize at Inheritance: Norwich Castle Open Art Show, his works have been purchased by the Norfolk Museums Service Costume and Textile Collection and have been exhibited at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and as part of Kaleidoscopic Realms at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery.



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📍 James Gladwell’s work is at Project Ability at Trongate 103, 5 – 21 June, visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.



Images:

James Gladwell, Ghost, c.2022 Detail.

James Gladwell, The Farm, c.2016 Detail.

Courtesy the artist and Barrington Farm

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡Painting, our mutual friend, Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson .cranstonPresen...
09/04/2026

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Painting, our mutual friend, Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson .cranston

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Painting, our mutual friend is an exhibition of etching, monoprints, watercolours and oil paintings exploring the dynamic relationship between printmaking and painting through the creative and personal partnership of artists Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson. Working in close proximity yet with distinct approaches, the artists reveal both contrast and symbiosis within their practices.

Developed through experimental residencies at Glasgow Print Studio from 2025 to 2026, Surface Tension presents new print works alongside painting, exploring screen printing, etching, monoprint, and woodcut, considering how these practices intersect as a cohesive body of work.

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📍 Painting, our mutual friend is at Glasgow Print Studio, 5 – 21 June, visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

 

Painting, our mutual friend is supported by Glasgow Print Studios

 

Images:

Andrew Cranston, Still Life in Grangemouth, 2024

Andrew Cranston, If You Know Your History, 2022

Lorna Robertson, Untitled, 2025

Lorna Robertson, Untitled, 2025

Lorna Robertson, Untitled, 2025  Courtesy Glasgow Print Studio

As part of our project spotlight series this week, we will be highlighting projects hosted at Trongate 103. Trongate 103...
08/04/2026

As part of our project spotlight series this week, we will be highlighting projects hosted at Trongate 103.

Trongate 103 or T103, opened in 2009 as a centre for arts and creativity in Glasgow, hosting a broad and multi-form range of practice and supporting the city's vital vision and commitment to the arts. We are extremely proud to have three organisations based at T103 in our programme: Glasgow Print Studio, Street Level Photoworks, and Project Ability, and hope they, alongside all other artists and organisations who call Trongate 103 home, continue to be there, supported with affordable space, for a long time.

Look out for the upcoming T103 posts we have scheduled for this week! 👀

As we approach  , we'll be introducing the projects and artists within our programme, and sharing a bit more about the w...
02/04/2026

As we approach  , we'll be introducing the projects and artists within our programme, and sharing a bit more about the work you can see at our 11th edition festival this June.

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Flat, Renèe Helèna Browne

Presented by Renèe Helèna Browne

Flat, 2026, is a new moving-image installation by Renèe Helèna Browne that unfolds within the shifting conditions of the so-called “mica scandal” in Donegal, Ireland, where thousands of homes were discovered to have defective concrete blocks.

The work traces a period of transition wherein one dwelling is slowly relinquished as another takes form, shaped through repetitive acts of making and unmaking. Attending to gestures of labour, care, and adaptation, the film considers how knowledge circulates outside formal structures, carried instead through bodies, materials, and shared routines. Rooted in a rural environment where weather, animals, and tools inform daily rhythms, the installation reflects on how lives are reorganised through acts of repair and endurance. Flat offers a close study of resilience within conditions of structural change.

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📍Flat is at the Corner Block at The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 5 – 21 June, visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

Flat is supported by Creative Scotland, Wasps Studios at The Briggait, and the Arts Council of Ireland. Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund.

Images: Renèe Helèna Browne, Flat, 2026, production still

As we approach  , we'll be introducing the projects and artists within our programme, and sharing a bit more about the w...
01/04/2026

As we approach  , we'll be introducing the projects and artists within our programme, and sharing a bit more about the work you can see at our 11th edition festival this June.

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡

Tropical Hardware, Tanoa Sasraku

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Tropical Hardware is an exhibition of new sculptural and installation work by Tanoa Sasraku, in the newly restored Clydeside Hall at The Briggait.

Tanoa’s first solo exhibition in Scotland expands her sculptural practice through a sustained examination of the reconstruction of man: man at war, man in his coffin, and man imagined.

With a title lifted from a couture collection produced by Tanoa’s father in the 1990s, this body of work echoes the artist’s personal history and persistent drive to remake the paternal figure throughout her practice.

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📍 Tropical Hardware is at the recently restored Clydeside Hall at The Briggait (Wasps Studios), 5 – 21 June,  visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times.

Tropical Hardware is commissioned by Glasgow International with support from core funders, and Henry Moore Foundation, with venue support from Wasps Studios.  Additional thanks to Vardaxoglou Gallery.

Images:

Tanoa Sasraku, Subdued Morale Patch [Prisoner of War], 2025

Tanoa Sasraku, Trouser back L, 2023

Tanoa Sasraku, Lith 2, 2022

Photos by Jack Elliot Edwards, courtesy the artist.

Professional Registration is now open for Glasgow International 2026!To register and sign up for information across our ...
30/03/2026

Professional Registration is now open for Glasgow International 2026!

To register and sign up for information across our preview day (Thu 4 June) and opening weekend Fri 5 - Sun 7 June, follow the link in our bio.

And if you haven't already seen - our full programme is out now - take a look! 👀

We're so thrilled to announce that The Briggait will be the central venue for Glasgow International 2026. This special b...
24/03/2026

We're so thrilled to announce that The Briggait will be the central venue for Glasgow International 2026. This special building, a former fish market on the Clyde, is now home to 45 artist studios, 24 cultural organisations, and the largest complex of Victorian market halls in Scotland. We can’t wait to see you there during the festival, from 5-21 June.

Huge thanks to our friends at for welcoming us in.

We are excited to share the programme for Glasgow International 2026 - our 11th edition, running from 5–21 June! 🎉Across...
19/03/2026

We are excited to share the programme for Glasgow International 2026 - our 11th edition, running from 5–21 June! 🎉

Across 18 days, the festival will enliven Glasgow with work by more than 60 artists, celebrating the city as a vital place for making, organising, and experiencing contemporary art.

Free, open, and for everyone, this year’s festival brings together Glasgow International-curated commissions alongside projects selected through our open call, led by artists, artist-run spaces, and organisations across the city.

We are also introducing Special Projects, created with our friends at Platform and Rumpus Room - two organisations deeply rooted in their communities, whose care and expertise shape the cultural life of this city.

There is too much good work to fit into a single post, so dive into the full programme on our website “link in bio”. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing behind-the-scenes moments, artist highlights, and details of our public programme, Gatherings (tickets available from May).

We can’t wait for you to join us! 💛

Images and graphics by Matthew Arthur Williams and Maeve Redmond.

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