The Glasgow School of Art is delighted to share that the 20th edition of The Glasgow Sculpture Studio Fellowship has been awarded to 2025 Master of Fine Art graduate Reed Hexamer.
This long-established and important annual award is given to a graduate from The Glasgow School of Art’s Master of Fine Art programme who demonstrates a commitment to sustaining a studio-based practice and whose work represents a diversity of approaches to sculptural practice.
In addition to a stipend of £1,500, the award also includes 12-month membership to Glasgow Sculpture Studios and access to a range of support, including private studio space, professional opportunities, access to specialist communal production facilities and dedicated technical support.
“This long-standing Fellowship exemplifies the commitment of the Glasgow Sculpture Studios to foster growth and opportunity for a recent graduate of the MFA at The Glasgow School of Art,” said Margaret Salmon, Programme Lead, MFA, The Glasgow School of Art.
“It is a hopeful award; one that provides a stipend to support materials and costs, but also space, technical support, facilities and community during a period of change following graduation. We are deeply grateful for their stewardship and continued support.”
“We’re really excited to continue to support emerging artists working in contemporary sculptural practice in Glasgow through the 20th iteration of the Glasgow Sculpture Studios MFA Graduate Fellowship. This opportunity provides space, time and resources for the development of artistic practice at a crucial juncture post-graduation,” said Kitty Anderson, Director, Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Reed Hexamer’s latest exhibition and works can be viewed on The Glasgow School of Art’s 2025 Online Showcase HERE. Or visit Glasgow Sculpture Studios website.
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Notes For Editors
Reed Hexamer (they/he) is an artist and researcher perforating the membranes dividing ecological, archival and somatic frameworks to speculate on queer, counter-teleological approaches to research that expose fact-making as a collaborative project of invention. Their practice positions sculpture, writing and sound as forms of fugitive fieldwork through which the dust that settles on truth can be encountered as a being with its own histories, agendas and love affairs.
Reed received a BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art in 2025. They have exhibited and lectured in New York City, Glasgow, Vienna, San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, and Mexico City.
About Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS)
Glasgow Sculpture Studios is the largest art production facility in Scotland, with specialist workshops in metalwork, woodwork, plaster, resin, ceramics, and digital fabrication. They also provide studio space for artists working in these media and more, exploring what sculpture means today.
GSS has a technical team who provide support to workshop users and run a specialist fabrication service, making work for a variety of clients in the arts, architecture, and design. Access is at the heart of every aspect of the studios work. As well as providing affordable access to specialist skills and production space for professional artists and makers, GSS shares their facilities and creative and technical skills with wider groups of people through a learning and engagement programme.
GSS builds and strengthens relationships between their artists, communities, and local partners and aims to provide services that are meaningful, relevant and responsive to the needs of all of their users.
The studios are located at The Whisky Bond on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal. As an anchor tenant in the building and one of the first arts organisations to move into the area, GSS continues to play an important role in developing this vibrant creative industries hub in North Glasgow. GSS also has strong links with similar organisations across the country, and is a member of Scotland’s Workshops.
About The Glasgow School of Art (GSA)
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s leading independent university-level institutions for education and research in the visual creative disciplines. Our studio-based, specialist, practice-led teaching, learning and research draw talented individuals with a shared passion for visual culture and creative production from all over the world.
Originally founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, the School’s history can be traced back to 1753 and the establishment of the Foulis Academy delivering a European-style art education. Today, the GSA is an international community of over 3500 students and staff across architecture, design, fine art, innovation and technology in our campuses in Glasgow and Altyre (in the Scottish Highlands) and a thriving Open Studio programme delivering non-degree provision to over 1500 students annually.
