Solo Show Open Call 2026

Deadline 11:59pm on 3rd of May 2026 Overview of the solo show opportunity Market Gallery is excited to share that we are now accepting applications for our 2026 Solo Show, an annual opportunity for a Glasgow based artist to develop and present a significant new project. We are particularly interested in proposals that build on…

1 : 1 Advice Sessions – from April 2026

We’re excited to announce that we – the Market Gallery Committee – will be offering 1:1 advice sessions from April 2026 onwards! At the beginning of each month we will release a limited number of slots that will be offered on a first-come-first-served basis. These 45-minute sessions are open to Glasgow-based artists and will take…

Programme Administrator Call Out

Deadline: 1st April 2026 at 23:59 Interviews: week commencing 20th April 2026 – UPDATEDProposed start: April 2026, with a 3 month probationary period About Market Gallery: Market Gallery is a charitable artist-run organisation facilitated by a rolling committee of artists, a programme administrator and a board of trustees based in Glasgow’s East End. It was established…

The Triumph! – Emelio Kerr Beale

The Triumph! – Emelio Kerr Beale20th March – 5th April (Thurs – Sun) | open 11am – 4pm Opening: 19th March ~ 6pm – 8pm Join us at Market Gallery on Thursday 19th March from 6pm for the opening of ‘The Triumph!’, an exhibition by Emelio Kerr Beale developed during Market’s caregiver’s residency. Ripping apart,…

Home Residency – Rosie Roberts – 2026

We are thrilled to announce the artist taking on our Home Residency from January – May 2026. Rosie Roberts is an artist, writer and editor. Her practice focuses on making space for divergent thinking and conversation. Collaboration is central to the work she produces, starting with a shared question or observation that is then explored…

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

Upcoming sessions 10th March, 14th April, 12th May ~ all @ 6pm in Many Studios Event Space “We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone” In 2026, we return to Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, for our now once-monthly reading group! If you’d like to be added to our mailing list, please fill in…

Studio Residency – Emelio Kerr Beale – Jan 2026

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of January 2026. Emelio 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…

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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…

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…