If only we had the space
It featured a new commission by Jeni Allison, along with works in textiles, ceramics, and glass by Deirdre Nelson, Fionn Duffy, and Jack Brindley, whose collective practices crossed over art, design, and craft.
These contemporary works were contextualized in the space with Glasgow-based archival ephemera and film footage documenting housing activist movements and redevelopment schemes from Glasgow (archives included were from the 1960s to 1990s), as well as interviews with makers.
Through the craft of the four exhibiting makers and these significant moments in Glasgow’s housing history, the exhibition explored 'the through line of creative inhabitation, the changing role of homes as places of production as well as domesticity, and negotiating the right to space'.
Graphic design and layout of publication by Lucy Waltkins.
If only we had the space is curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant.
Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.
Supported by Platform, Inches Carr Craft Bursaries and Creative Scotland.