It is Market’s pleasure to share with you 𝘼 𝙬𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙚. For this publication Market Gallery brought together five commissioned artists who use writing in its expanded form as part of their practices. Publication launch on 21st May 2022 2.30-4.30pm. Pre-order / order your copy.

This Friday 13 May 2022 from 3-6pm we are delighted to be re-launching our Resource Library with a Book Fair! The Market Gallery resource library is an in-house lending library home to a growing collection of books that inform and foster solidarity across global political movements. Beginning as a collection of anti-racism resources, our library…

…Our skulls are basically contact mics?  During their Home Residency with Market last autumn, Tilly P-M  has developed an abundance of watery research involving sharks, animatronics and holes. Diving into the mystical mundanity of domestic spaces, waste pipe drains us towards a longing for our ancient fishy forms, leads us to disorientating angles of cyclical…

‘Abolition requires that we change one thing, everything’ – Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Why is it so hard to imagine a world without prisons or other forms of punishment? What if we didn’t automatically phone 999 when faced with harm, conflict, or a stranger in distress? As Ruth Wilson Gilmore suggests, visualising and working for the…

Market is excited to host Memories of Elsewhere for a workshop on exploring words, languages, poetry and rhythms. In this workshop, we will work together to create collective poems that combine memories, experiences, personal journeys and languages and reflect on the process of cultural hybridisation that happens with movement and migration.

Market’s 2021 Studio Projects Home Residency has been awarded to Lisette May Monroe. For three months from January 2022, Monroe will use the essential research time to work on a series of short stories, sculpture and sound work. Lisette May Monroe (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Glasgow.  She works with writing, photography…

Market is very excited to screen Camara Taylor’s film suspiration! (2021) suspiration! has grown out from the reflection on pinning, which Camara has explored during Market’s Studio Projects Home Residency in 2020.   Suspiration, [noun]—a long deep breath or a sigh. The film is a collage of photos, texts, newsreels, body sounds and gestures collected over four years.…

During our residency at Market Gallery, we focused on a project centred around the corrupt network of social institutions run by the Catholic Church in Ireland throughout the 20th century, with a particular focus on the Magdalene Laundries and mother and baby homes. Subsequent to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, these…

Market’s 2021 Studio Projects Home Residency has been awarded to Tilly P-M.  “What could live beyond the plughole, in the pipes?” For the next three months, Tilly will look at mystical mundanity, the gaps around us (metaphorical and physical) being a seedbed for fantasy of self, objects and our surroundings. Making animatronic coded creatures from…

Market Gallery is inviting expressions of interest from Scotland based artists to participate in UNDONE – a conversation about practice facilitated by Aman Sandhu.

Market’s 2021 Studio Projects Collaborative Residency has been awarded to Cat McClay and Éiméar McClay. They are developing a project focused on the corrupt network of social institutions (Magdalene laundries, mother and baby homes, etc.), which were run by the Catholic church in Ireland during the 20th century. Through a combination of 3D animation, video…

“She’s a bit much” is an online research and alternative publishing platform devised by Catalina Barroso Luque and Jude Browning.

Our Resource Library is a small lending library home to a growing collection of books on anti-racism and solidarity across global political movements. The library will be open twice weekly and will function as an educational resource and a community space where learning and conversations can take place. Opening Hours By appointment + whenever we…