A grainy colour image shows a person seated inside an upside-down table with a black outboard motor attached. The makeshift vessel cuts through pale turquoise water, churning the surface behind it, creating white foam. The figure is turned away from the camera, their bare arm catching the light, hand on the tiller.

symptoms – film screening

symptoms Thursday 22nd January Doors : 6:30 Screening : 7pm ~ Please join us for ‘symptoms’, a screening of films selected by Hannan Jones and The Camelia Committee (Mira Adoumier, Carine Doumit, Nour Ouayda), who we are working with for Glasgow International 2026. Six short works move across gestures, sites, materials and encounters to sit…

Film still showing an image of gentle ocean waves filling the entire shot, with a caption in white writing reading: "whose indubitable trace I struggle to find" Image: Film still from 'Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation' (trailer) Manthia Diawara, 2010.

Poetics of Relation – Reading Group 2026

Tuesday 13th January @ 6pm | Many Studios Event Space “We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone” Join us on Tuesday 13th January at 6pm as we return to Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, for our now once-monthly reading group! During our first session, we look forward to deciding together how we might…

Studio Residency – Emelia Kerr Beale – Jan 2026

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of January 2026. Emelia Kerr Beale predominantly works with drawing, sculpture and textile. Interested in how we communicate with the world, and how the world communicates back, Emelia often uses personal and social history to consider the tensions between…

Studio Residency – Katrina Cobain – Dec 2025

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of December 2025. Katrina Cobain is an artist working in the mediums of performance, sculpture, writing and film. Her work explores the personas and fronts created in the late capitalist landscape, and the cognitive dissonance they often produce. Her…

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…

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…

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…