On Saturday the 18th January 2025 2 – 4pm, Kate Timney and Market Gallery invite interdisciplinary practitioners (artists, makers, musicians, writers, creatives of all stripes) to reinvigorate a project that has come to a halt, or to generate possibilities around an idea that has not yet taken form Influenced by Animal Joy, Nuar Alsadir’s exploration…

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine. – Lucille Clifton On Saturday the 7th December 2-4pm, Emmy Yoneda and Market Gallery invite you to How Do You Remember? On memory and felt knowledge; a screening of Autumn Salmon and Ainu Hunter, Mon-chan – two…

Join us on Saturday 23rd November 2-3.30pm for a meditative experience, exploring the notion of ‘gestational waters’ through restful listening and shared rituals. Guided by artist Grace Browne, we’ll journey through underwater sounds and storytelling of the deep, reimagining the ancient mythology of the seven sisters of the Pleiades star cluster – known in Igbo…

‘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…

Saturday 20th April / 6-8pm. 13 Ross St, G1 5AR. Free but ticketed. Following their Reader Residency* at Market Gallery across February and March, Glasgow based British-Barbadian writer, editor, curator and artist Harvey Dimond has programmed the screening event Reading/ Writing from a distance. The programme expands on some of the themes teased out during their…

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 –…

Left: Outeniqua waters, digital photograph, 2023, courtesy of the artist/ Right: Sedee, digital collage, 2021 courtesy of the artist. We are excited to host Harvey Dimond for the Market Gallery Reader Residency 2024. Harvey will be working alongside the Resource Library at Market Gallery across February and March. Harvey Dimond is a British-Barbadian writer, editor,…

Saturday 24th February 12-2.30pm – “all the monstrous islands / all the trembling people” a writing workshop led by Maya Uppal focused on islands, cultural isolationism and world-building. This workshop will be guided by research into how islands can be defined not only as land contained by water but as any deliberately isolated place, both…

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…

As part of our seasonal Resource Library workshop programme, on Saturday 15th April 11-2pm, Hussein Mitha will be leading a learning and making workshop on climate justice and radical pedagogy. This workshop will support the launch of a new publication, called ‘Paradise Now: A Climate Justice Handbook for Young People.’ The publication comes from a…

Sat 11th February 12-3pm with Zoë Charlery. This workshop will be a [slow and quiet] space to tend to the traces of memory inscribed in our name(s) and consider how we negotiate these presence/s in our daily lives. Through writing and sensory exercises, participants will plot and contemplate the entanglements of personal [imagined + felt]…

Last Autumn we invited Zoë Charlery to take on a residency at our Resource Library. The Reader Residency is a pilot residency format for activating and shaping the growing collection of books that inform and foster solidarity across global political movements. Zoë spent their time reading the library’s sources to consider the entangled channels that support an abolitionist practice.…

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…

‘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…