GSA Exhibitions, The Glasgow School of Art

17/08/2026

Join us for the preview of our new exhibition ‘The Married Life of Atoms: The Harry Kerr Bursary', which opens in the Reid Gallery at 5pm Friday 18th September 2026. The preview is free but ticketed - book via Eventbrite (https://tinyurl.com/msw77nuf).

The Married Life of Atoms serves as a poignant retrospective exhibition showcasing the personal photographic endeavours of the late Harry Kerr, alongside works by Danielle MacLeod, who was awarded the Harry Kerr Bursary in 2024.

The exhibition is co-curated by Christina McBride and Harry's life and work partner, Martha McCulloch, offering an introspective journey through his prolific career. The selected works for the exhibition were edited from a multitude of projects, each echoing Harry’s eclectic array of interests and concerns. His body of work delved into themes as varied as the interpretation of meaning, the dynamics of landscape and space, the nuances of time and location, and the complexities of communication.

Danielle Macleod was awarded the 2024 Harry Kerr Bursary. A gifted mask maker and photographer from the Isle of Lewis, McLeod's work is deeply intertwined with the rich cultural heritage of the Hebrides. ‘Gorm an Fheòir — The Blue of the Grass’ explores traditional healing medicines and practices of the Highlands and Islands through portraits and landscapes printed in cyanotype and toned with botanicals.

Part of the Season of Photography 2026, a celebration of photography in Scotland running from 1 September – 20 December 2026.

With support from The Hope Scott Trust and Artlink, Fort Dunree.

The Married Life of Atoms: The Harry Kerr Bursary
19th September – 31st October 2026
Reid Gallery

Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10am – 4.30pm / Sun – Closed

Image 1: © Harry Kerr, courtesy of Artlink
Image 2: © Danielle Macleod, courtesy of the artist

30/07/2026

Inspired by the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival theme of ‘Celebration’, the ‘Commonwealth Games Medals at The Glasgow School of Art’ exhibition brings the medal design process to life.

Featuring materials from The Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections alongside film, this immersive exhibition follows the creative journey behind the making of both the 2014 and 2026 Glasgow medals, from first sketches to finished objects, opening up the process from the inside.

If you would like to find out more about the design of the medals and the exhibition as a whole, we are running free exhibition tours during the Commonwealth Games period (23rd July – 2nd August 2026) from Monday to Saturday from 1pm – 1.30 pm. All welcome and no booking necessary.

Celebrating the Design Journey: Commonwealth Games Medals at The Glasgow School of Art
Until 8th August 2026
Window on Heritage, The Reid Building

Opening Hours:
Mon to Sat 10am – 4.30pm
Sun – Closed

Image Credit:

Image 1: Militza Milenkova, Commonwealth Games Gold Medal
Image 2: Jonathan Boyd, Sketchbook (2013)
Image 3: Commonwealth Games Medal Design Process 2026
Image 4: To Hold a City, film by Callum Rice
Image 5: Commonwealth Games Medal Design Process 2025

Photography: Alan Dimmick

28/07/2026

Join us for Modular Memory, a collaborative film programme between Alaya Ang and Anggraeni Widhiasih, as part of the exhibition Afterlives: The Weaver, A Chorus, An Archipelago, on show in the Reid Gallery until 8th August.

Free but ticketed - book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modular-memory-film-screening-tickets-1993996442035?aff=oddtdtcreator

‘Modular Memory’ explores how archives – both tangible and intangible- shape our understanding of histories, places, and lived experiences. Archives exist not only as photographs, footage, and artefacts, but also through oral histories, myths, and stories. Beyond preserving knowledge, these fragments become ways of interpreting the world we inhabit from before until now. The modular aspect suggests the possibility of assembling and disassembling fragments, allowing multimodular archives to be reconnected and previously unheard narratives to emerge.

The films in this programme bring together colonial archives with personal memories, oral traditions, and undocumented experiences, creating new landscapes of memory through audiovisual practices. By suturing fragments of images, sounds, and stories, these works reveal the complex entanglements between colonial legacies and Southeast Asia’s ecological, social, economic, and political landscapes, tracing their ongoing aftermaths and afterlives.

Text by Anggraeni Widhiasih

Programme Line-up
Anatomy of Nostalgia (2024) – Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Indonesia)
To Pick A Flower (2021) – Shireen Seno (Philippines)
Emergencies (2025) – Bart Seng Wen Long (Singapore)
Myanmar Anatomy (2023) – Prapat Jiwarangsan (Thailand)
Sharp Objects (2026) – Kifu Taufiqurrahman and Hattie Wade (Indonesia-UK)

Anggraeni Widhiasih is a researcher, artist, and curator from Indonesia. Her practice explores the intersections of memory, media, archives, and digital culture, focusing on how historical narratives are produced, contested, and circulated through film and social media. She was part of the curatorial team for ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (2018–2025) and participated in the Film Criticism Writing Workshop at Salamindanaw Asian Film Festival in collaboration with the Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop (2016). She has worked with various art and film collectives in Indonesia, served as Editor-in-Chief of Visual Jalanan platform, worked as a socio-behavioural analyst in media consultation, and currently serves as a film programmer for NextScene Youth & Kids Film Festival 2026.

Alaya Ang is a Singapore-born artist and curator based in Glasgow. Through community-led and collective modes of working, Alaya’s practice engages with Southeast Asian histories and cosmologies to examine how migration, memory, and ancestral practices shape evolving understandings of home and belonging.

This film programme is part of the exhibition Afterlives: The Weaver, A Chorus, An Archipelago, on show in the Reid Gallery until 8th Aug.

28/07/2026

Curator Izzy Laishley discusses her exhibition 'Celebrating the Design Journey: Commonwealth Games Medals at The Glasgow School of Art', on show in the Window on Heritage until Saturday 8th August.

28/07/2026

Curator Alaya Ang discusses our current exhibition 'Afterlives: The Weaver, A Chorus, An Archipelago', on show in the Reid Gallery until Saturday 8th August.

30/03/2026

We have a handful of spaces left on our ‘Writing Hospitable Spaces’ workshop with Sean Wai Keung tomorrow evening at the Garnethill Multicultural Centre from 5.30pm.

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty ‘States of Matter’ strand, and considers the making and re-making of hospitable spaces in an interdisciplinary workshop, led by poet and performance maker Sean Wai Keung.

Free but ticketed - book via https://tinyurl.com/ystrzx9a
5.30pm - 7pm, Tuesday 31st March
Garnethill Multicultural Centre

https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/rrs-writing-hospitable-spaces-with-sean-wai-keung/

Join us on Tuesday 31st March for a special writing workshop led by Sean Wai Keung.

25/03/2026

Here are some installation views of our current Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship exhibition ‘Inference to The Veil’, curated by Black Waters (Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery). The exhibition runs in the Reid Gallery, GSA until Saturday 25th April 2026.

The exhibition stages Glasgow as the centre from which to perceive the scale and afterlives of the global colonial project, and the precise, opaque, continuously emergent ways Black life subsists and composes. The exhibition has been developed, particularly in relation to questions of perspective, visual authority, and the historical and contemporary processes through which Black life is obscured. These concerns directly informed the exhibition title, ‘Inference to The Veil’, which reflects the project’s focus on abstraction, opacity, and concealment as both tools of oppressive social design and as counter-strategies for resistance and refusal. For Black curatorial practice, inference becomes a means of recollection and assemblage; studying alongside fragments, distortions and omissions as a methodology for pronouncing Black life and testimony.

Supported by Jerwood Foundation, the exhibition features work from Jerwood Collection including Barbara Walker RA, MBE, Lubaina Himid CBE, RA, Michael Armitage and Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, alongside works by Kialy Tihngang, Emmanuel Addo-Osafo, Hock Aun Teh and Anna Tewungwa from the GSA Archive & Collections. Black Waters has also invited Glasgow-based artists Grace Browne, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Camara Taylor and Adebusola King Ramsay, alongside London-based artist Rebecca Bellantoni, to present work in the exhibition.

Black Waters: Inference to The Veil
Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship
On show in the Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art until 25th April 2026

Opening Hours: Mon to Sat 10am – 4.30pm, Sun – Closed
*Please note the gallery is closed on Monday 6th April

Image 1: 'Black Waters: Inference to The Veil' Installation View.

Image 2: Michael Armitage - Dream and Refuge (2020), Signed and numbered seven colour lithograph on Somerset warm white velvet 400gsm paper, 48.8 x 23.5cm, Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC263

Image 3: Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA - Mayflower, All Flowers (2020) Relief print with woodblock and fabric collage on Somerset Tub Sized Satin 410gsm paper, 111.5 x 103cm , Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC265

Image 4: Lubaina Himid CBE, RA - A Rake’s Progress Hole in her Stocking (4) (2022), Screenprint in Charbonnel etching ink with hand-painting in acrylic on Arches Watercolour 640 gsm paper, 77 x 57.5cm, Courtesy of Jerwood Collection JC282

Image 5: Installation view showing a still from ‘Grace Browne – OGODO’ (2024), Single channel HD Video, courtesy of the artist

All photos © Matthew Arthur Williams

02/03/2026

You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our inaugural exhibition of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship 'Black Waters: Inference to The Veil', which opens in the Reid Gallery at 5pm on Friday 13th March 2026 (Free but ticketed - book via https://tinyurl.com/45umsfew).

'Black Waters: Inference to the Veil' marks the culmination of the inaugural Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art 2025 and features works from Jerwood Collection and Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections. The first recipient of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art is ‘Black Waters’, a collaborative, curatorial research project led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery.

'Inference to the Veil' announces Black Waters’ debut exhibition. Drawing on Black feminist methodologies and Black scholarship, the exhibition convenes archival and collection works with invited independent artists in a shared curatorial field. This gesture situates Glasgow-based practices within a broader UK and African diasporic constellation.

The exhibition seeks to frame selected works from Jerwood Collection and GSA Archives & Collections into view with Black spatial practices, citational performance and material thinking. Works from both collections are shown alongside invited artists based in Glasgow and London. Jerwood Collection works feature Barbara Walker, Lubaina Himid CBR,RA, Michael Armitage and Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, with GSA Archive & Collections works featuring Kialy Tihngang, Emmanuel Addo-Osafo, Hock Aun Teh and Anna Tewungwa. Black Waters have also invited Glasgow-based artists Grace Browne, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Camara Taylor and Adebusola King Ramsay, alongside London-based artist Rebecca Bellantoni, to present work in the exhibition.

This exhibition and Curatorial Fellowship are supported by Jerwood Foundation with loans from Jerwood Collection and GSA Archives & Collections.

Image: Inference to The Veil, image courtesy of Black Waters (Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery), 2026

17/02/2026

Year 2 Painting and Printmaking - Stowaways
14th – 28th February 2026
Reid Gallery

'Stowaways', currently on show in the Reid Gallery until the 28th February, is an exhibition of work by 2nd Year Painting and Printmaking students.

The title reflects the exhibition as a dynamic, as well as the short movement of works from the studios in the Stow Building, and the shift embedded in this ‘away game’ or escape from the workshopping of ideas.

Exhibiting artists are Malak Ali, Kerala Alexander, Mathilda Allan, Lu Armstrong, Martha Atwell, Saul Auty, Eden Bagchi, Hannah Balding, Mckayla Blair, Calum Bremner, Minna Briscoe, Emma Campbell, Áine Chatfield, Thomas Chorley, Martha Cohen, Aoife Davidson, Ella Denison, Cerys Dunant, Kirsten Feehan, Elen Foley, Olive Friend, Evie Galberg, Alex Gardner, Gabrielle Gledhill, Romy Gordon-Craig, Bronte Greenoff, Sam Groarke, Anushka Gupta, Tilly Hagland, Emily Hall, Grace Halsey, Ollie Hancock, Robyn Hill, Maggie Holyoke, Alexander Hyland, Adrina Jan, Andy Jiang, Josie Johnson, Carys Keenan, Puifai Ketpharn, Cassie Layton, Hubert Liu, Rax Liu, Yicheng Liu, Daisy Locke, Lara Machesnay, Sylvie Magee, Jen Matheson, Evie Mckeown, Helen McCool, Kirsty McNeil, Penny McShea, Sasha Moss, Lola Nicholls, Divija Parmar, Annie Priestley, William Puddy, Tilly Ross, Bob Sainsbury, Lily Schiller-Chatwood, Lisa Scott, Rachel Sedgeworth, Wonrin Seo, Emily Smith, Susanne Stampf, Lula Thomas, Nina van Roosmalen, Ella Walsh Biderman, Jess Wood and Joey Zhang.

This exhibition was selected from a GSA Schools-led Open Call.

Opening Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10am to 4.30pm
Sunday – Closed

09/02/2026

Shaping Archived Futures with Ebun Sodipo

5.30pm - 6.30pm, Wednesday 25th February, Reid Lecture Theatre
Free but ticketed - book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981571210834?aff=oddtdtcreator

How does our past shape our future? And how do we make art for those who will come after? In this event, London-based interdisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo will reflect on collage and fabulation as methods to shape Black trans futures. Addressing archival gaps, Sodipo will share insights into her current research and illustrate how (re)imagining past states can facilitate future joy.

Join us for a short presentation from Sodipo, followed by a discussion, with time for audience questions at the end.

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty ‘States of Matter’ strand. ‘States of Matter’ is a programme strand which considers interactions between art and statehood, asking how practitioners shift our present states of living. Race, Rights and Sovereignty is a programme supported by the GSA Students Association in partnership with GSA Exhibitions.

Photo credit: Ebun Sodipo & Soft Opening.