2 shred or not 2 shred: yes another archive event — Rhia Laing — May 3rd 2025

Images from From Market Gallery’s archive. Left: Page of a sketchbook by Michelle Corney (2000). Right: edited image of ‘the common male fern’, from the first anniversary party for Market Gallery, (2001.) Join us at Market Gallery on Saturday the 3rd of May from 12pm to 5pm as we share pieces from our archive to…

Reader Residency 2025 Open Call

Deadline 11:59pm Tuesday 22nd of April Market Gallery is excited to announce a third iteration of our Reader Residency, a funded opportunity for an artist or researcher based in the Glasgow area. The residency invites you to take our Resource Library as a starting point, to explore how its collection could be activated in conversation…

pulley system for a plait that weighs of bronze – Lily Krempel – 11th to 26th April 2025

Join us at Market Gallery on April 11th 5.30-8pm for the opening of Lily Krempal’s pulley system for a plait that weighs of bronze, the third iteration of our Window Series. The exhibition will then be open to the public every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday of April. The sculptural apparatus mimics the ancient model of…

Lily Krempel — Window Series artist — April 2025

We are so excited to introduce our next Window Series commissioned artist – Lily Krempel – who will be taking over our gallery space in April! Lily Krempel is a sculptor based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the stories of objects and processes of object-making – what an object might reveal about its maker and…

From A Distance / text response to the Reader Residency by Harvey Dimond

‘Hydrocolonialism riffs off the term postcolonialism and, like that concept, has a wide potential remit that could include colonization by way of water (various forms of maritime imperialism), colonization of water (occu- pation of land with water resources, the declaration of territorial waters, the militarization and geopoliticization of oceans), a colony on (or in) water…

as a point of departure | A little extra

as a point of departure was presented within Glasgow International 2024, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. In conjunction with their sound work, Alma Simba and Darragh Amelia offered a sharing of audiovisual and literary landing points which informed the process of making and communicating at distance. Film and TV This Is My Life (1992) dir.…

Library Digest: Kirsteen Stevenson

A review of Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby. Scanned Image: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, Verso Books, London, pp. 324-325, 160-161. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, begins with ‘the girl’ – the girl who is constantly asked ‘the question!’. ‘The question’ was always lying in wait –…

Library Digest: Beulah Ezeugo

Keep it in Mind: A review of In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices by a.pass Scanned Images 1 & 2: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre, Various Authors (2022) In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Onomatopee 181, Netherlands, pp. 210-211, 160-161. I started reading ‘In These…

Open Letter in Solidarity with the People of Palestine

Image: Yousef Anastas We, the committee members of Market Gallery, write to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn Western support of the ongoing occupation and systemic violation of human rights which normalises dangerous rhetoric and propagates…