‘Their Theatre and Ours’ – exhibition events

Alongside Joey Simons’ solo exhibition Their Theatre and Ours, there will be three coinciding events happening at Market Gallery. Each event has its own eventbrite page linked below. The People’s Luminaire: lighting the workers’ theatreWednesday 5th November, 6-8pm Join artist and theatre lighting designer Laurie Paul for a practical workshop experimenting with the construction of…

‘Their Theatre and Ours’ – Joey Simons

Join us on Thursday 30th October from 6-9pm for the opening of Joey Simons’ solo exhibition Their Theatre and Ours – open throughout November at Market Gallery. Situated within the history of the workers’ theatre movement, Their Theatre and Ours examines what it may mean to act in the midst of an inferno. The exhibition…
A close up of a hand holding a phone over a microphone over a red light wall.

MG25 party film!

On the 6th September 2025 we culminated a week long of activity celebrating Market Gallery’s 25th anniversary with a night of performance and music at 16 Collective! Performers included India Boxall, Isaac Harris, Kirsty Dunlop, gentian rhosa, Aly Gear, Uzganc choir and polyterror. Thanks to:Édouard Glissant, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, India Boxall, Theo Panagopoulos, AW4P, Listen…

Extended deadline – Studio Projects Residency Open Call – 2025/26

Extended deadline 11:59pm Tuesday 11th of November Market Gallery is excited to share that we are now accepting applications for 2025 – 2026 Studio Project Residencies. We are offering two residency opportunities to emerging1 artists based in Glasgow who are in need of a sustained period of reflection, research,  and/or making. One of these opportunities…

Glasgow International 2026 – Hannan Jones & The Camelia Committee

We are excited to introduce our Glasgow International 2026 artists with whom we are working to develop new work across the next 10 months; Hannan Jones & The Camelia Committee.  Expanding the program beyond the GI festival period we will host two screening events drawing on the themes and previous works of our commissioned artists…
A collage with a central photocopied old black and white photograph with miners at work. Around the central image there are blocks of text hand written using blue, red and black pen alongside newspaper clippings.

Joey Simons – Solo Show November 2025

~ Introducing our 2025 Solo Show ~ a commission which supports an emerging artist based in Glasgow to develop, create and exhibit new artworks. The commission culminates in a 6-week exhibition, taking place in November 2025. Joey Simons is an artist and writer working across video, theatre, research, publishing and community arts to explore the…

here is where we meet

“Archives are not inert historical collections. They always  stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which  the present puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another.”   Constituting an Archive, Stuart Hall It’s a Saturday at Market Gallery and the energy  from the Barras swarms the…

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…