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Sir Grayson Perry visits The Glasgow School of Art to view his work ‘Snow Suit’, part of the exhibition Catalogue: 25 Years of the Centre for Advanced Textiles.

Posted on: Oct. 15, 2025
On the morning of Sunday, 12th Oct, internationally renowned British artist Sir Grayson Perry visited The Glasgow School of Art to meet the staff at the GSA’s Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT), taking an opportunity to see his own work “Snow Suit” (2021) on display, part of the Centre’s 25th anniversary exhibition of remarkable and diverse works across apparel, home
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Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford’s exhibition SurvØY investigates climate impacts on Scottish island environments, posing questions about time, identity, and the resilience of island and ocean ecosystems.

Posted on: Sep. 19, 2025
SurvØY was developed over four years as a contemporary artist’s ‘island almanac’, surveying and monitoring scales of change in the context of the island environment of Papay Westray, one of the most northern Orkney islands.   The exhibition runs from 20 Sept – 1 Nov 2025 at The Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Gallery.   Islands are highly sensitive to
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CATALOGUE: 25 Years of the Centre for Advanced Textiles at The Glasgow School of Art showcases a ground-breaking journey and lasting impact on the textile industry through specialist innovation in digital textile print and design.

Posted on: Sep. 01, 2025
Catalogue: 25 years of the Centre for Advanced Textiles runs from 13th Sept to 18th Oct at The Glasgow School of Art’s Garnethill Gallery. This colourful and captivating retrospective showcases significant moments from CAT’s quarter-century of innovation, underscoring its pivotal role in Scotland’s textile, creative arts, fine art, and design sectors, as well as in education.   The exhibition features
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Scotland’s next generation of Emerging Creative Graduates Unveiled: The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show 2025

Posted on: Aug. 28, 2025
The next generation of global creatives takes centre stage at The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show 2025, presenting innovation and emerging technologies alongside traditional craft, fine art skills and socially responsive design. Running 29 August – 7 September in Glasgow, with a global digital showcase launching 28 August, the Postgraduate Degree Show 2025 is one of Scotland’s largest
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Empire Retold: other voices from the British Empire Exhibition reflects on post-colonial perspectives of Glasgow history.

Posted on: Jul. 09, 2025
The Empire Exhibition of 1938 was a major international exposition held in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Its purpose was to showcase the achievements of the British Empire, promote trade, and strengthen imperial bonds. It attracted around 13 million visitors during its six-month duration, yet today there is so little evidence remaining that most people are unaware of its existence, even if
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New survey exhibition explores 30 years of selected works by contemporary artist and GSA alumna Victoria Morton

Posted on: Jun. 12, 2025
‘Switch Track’ is a survey show of selected works from 1995 – 2025. This period represents 30 years of painting since Victoria Morton graduated from the MFA course at The Glasgow School of Art in 1995. The exhibition carefully draws upon sketchbook materials, paintings and mixed media works from different points in time.   Morton’s practice has encompassed painting, sculptural assemblages, photography, and
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The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2025 opens, providing a dazzling preview of the multidisciplinary innovation, imagination, and ingenuity produced by this year’s creative graduates, underlining the institution’s key position as a culture-making powerhouse.

Posted on: May. 29, 2025
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Degree Show 2025 opens to the public from 30th May to 8th June across the GSA Glasgow Campus in Garnethill. The GSA’s Master of Fine Art Degree Show opens on 29 May to 8 June at The Glue Factory. The physical exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive digital showcase, which will be launched
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New Exhibition explores a century of remarkable history within Garnethill’s diverse immigrant communities

Posted on: May. 01, 2025
The exhibition Migrant Garnethill is a community heritage project led by a small team of volunteer teachers and students from St Aloysius Church ESOL class (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition runs from 3rd – 10th May in the Garnethill Gallery (formerly The Reid Gallery Corridor in the GSA’s Reid
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COMMA, the MFA Interim Exhibition 2025, brings together 51 international artists in a vivid, multi-sensory and cross-discipline collection of painting, sculpture, video installation, live performance and radio broadcasts.

Posted on: Mar. 28, 2025
The MFA Interim Show 2025 brings together artworks by 51 international artists studying in the first year of The Glasgow School of Art’s acclaimed MFA programme to present new work at The Glue Factory, in an exhibition which runs from the 29th March till 3rd April, with a preview night of performances & happenings on 28th March between 7-8pm.  
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Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age – exhibition and major new book, researched and curated by Professor of Design History at The Glasgow School of Art, celebrates the history and legacy of Art Deco in Scotland

Posted on: Mar. 07, 2025
Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age is an exhibition of images, ephemera, a film and textual interpretation across nine themes through which the Art Deco style appeared during the inter-war period in Scotland.  The exhibition will run in the Reid Gallery Corridor at The Glasgow School of Art from 5th till 28th April, and is part
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