A group of people standing in a circle reading from a sheet of paper in a forest

Theatre of action: an afternoon of performance and readings with Joey Simons

Sunday 19th October, Market Gallery, 2 – 6pm Join us for an afternoon of participative readings, performance and poetry in the workers’ theatre tradition. Together we will read and perform new translations of plays by the German revolutionary Berta Lask, anti-colonial agitprop pieces like Hands Off China! (1927) and Meerut (1933), and the work of…

Their theatre and ours 2: a people’s translation workshop with Joey Simons

Thursday 16th October, 5.30 – 7.30pm, Market Gallery Join artist and writer Joey Simons for a second free translation workshop as part of his new Workers’ Theatre exhibition for Market Gallery. Collectively we will work to translate and discuss revolutionary theatre texts and prepare playscripts for future performances. Drawing on traditions of working-class self-education, the…

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…

two images of bunches of flowers lie underneath aa squiggly steel metal cutout, the spine of a book reading the Explosive Child sits at the top of the image and the words open university press is written on the left in bubble writing

PSYCHOSOCIAL TELEPATHY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN – A workshop with Kate Paul

2-4pm PSYCHOSOCIAL TELEPATHY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN 12-6pm Library research installation open Join us for a writing* workshop for adults and children with artist and writer Kate Paul, where participants will be guided through a series of writing experiments using notions of telepathy and false understanding, and materials like music, ribbon and steel. *If preferred,…

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…

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…