Glasgow’s arts scene is experiencing a decrease in event listings. Adam Benmakhlouf speaks to eight local artists to find out why.
‘What’s happening in Glasgow’ is the subject of the email that comes through from Rosamund, the Editor-in-Chief. Listings for Art have been gradually shrinking since pre-COVID times, and they’ve not bounced back in the same way as the other sections. More galleries are closing than opening, and as much as the grassroots arts culture in Glasgow is often paid lip service, how stable a foundation is this for the city’s art activity? Eight interviewees have been brought together here to look for some answers to this broad and lowkey dreadful question: where’s the art activity gone in Glasgow?
Poet, educator and artist Robert Thomas James Mills was last on these pages as he rowed down the Clyde for Glasgow International 2018. He suggested we meet in Ushi’s Coffee Corner, the brand new "and only DIY queer vegan filter coffee spot in G2 (or the UK for that matter)." He admits he didn’t plan to go to this place deliberately, but that it’s a topical setting. "Coincidentally, this feels like a space where we would have done events." Maybe the city’s butting into this conversation. New spaces are opening, people are still making shit happen...Keep reading on The Skinny.
‘What’s happening in Glasgow’ is the subject of the email that comes through from Rosamund, the Editor-in-Chief. Listings for Art have been gradually shrinking since pre-COVID times, and they’ve not bounced back in the same way as the other sections. More galleries are closing than opening, and as much as the grassroots arts culture in Glasgow is often paid lip service, how stable a foundation is this for the city’s art activity? Eight interviewees have been brought together here to look for some answers to this broad and lowkey dreadful question: where’s the art activity gone in Glasgow?
Poet, educator and artist Robert Thomas James Mills was last on these pages as he rowed down the Clyde for Glasgow International 2018. He suggested we meet in Ushi’s Coffee Corner, the brand new "and only DIY queer vegan filter coffee spot in G2 (or the UK for that matter)." He admits he didn’t plan to go to this place deliberately, but that it’s a topical setting. "Coincidentally, this feels like a space where we would have done events." Maybe the city’s butting into this conversation. New spaces are opening, people are still making shit happen...Keep reading on The Skinny.