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  • A Year of Gallery Bagging

    A Year of Gallery Bagging

    ✨ Our BIG 1 year recap ✨ As Gallery Bagging’s 1 year comes to a close, we wanted to recap the amazing feats it has seen as well as share more of what we hope to come from our wee space. We recently sent out a newsletter to our subscribers outlining the crazy achievements we… Read more

  • REVIEW: WHITE TEETH, GOOD NATURE

    REVIEW: WHITE TEETH, GOOD NATURE

    WHITE TEETH, GOOD NATURE Exhibition with Outlier Gallery.  A single shuttered door tucked in next to Val D‘Oro chippy in Trongate leads to a stone spiral staircase which opens up to the exhibition ‘WHITE TEETH, GOOD NATURE’. A newly opened space having previously hosted only one other exhibition, Outlier Gallery is a fantastic, open and… Read more

  • Seven Soniferous Hours: A Response to RAISE THE ALARM

    Seven Soniferous Hours: A Response to RAISE THE ALARM

    “The ear is a faithful collector of all sounds that can be gathered within its limits of frequency and amplitude. Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.” Raise the Alarm, a soniferous experience giving opportunity to the viewer to peer beyond the human perspective and… Read more

  • [synonym] session #4: listening to memories

    [synonym] session #4: listening to memories

    After a much needed break in May, Gallery Bagging’s co-editor Eliza brought in a whopper of an exercise for June’s [synonym] session #4. Beginning with our journey towards the POC-run Listen Gallery on Hunter Street, Glasgow, we followed Tennant’s chimneys towards this quaint little building sporting a rectangular encapsulated graffiti tag hovered by this session’s… Read more

  • [synonym] session #3: Imagines

    [synonym] session #3: Imagines

    April’s session focused on the exhibition ‘Leaves Turn Inside You’ by artist Charlie Hodgson at the David Dale Gallery, Glasgow. In this workshop we aimed for our prompts to become a suggestive tool to encourage participants to freely question and speculate the narratives of the work, the subtleness of the story that is being told… Read more

  • response: It Boils Down to Nerves | Emily Coulson’s ‘In the Ending of Nerves’ 

    response: It Boils Down to Nerves | Emily Coulson’s ‘In the Ending of Nerves’ 

    A 22-minute walk from the Glasgow Queen Street station existed the brief exhibition In the Ending of Nerves. A curated display consisting of porcelain magic, decal imagery, and objects with histories. It demonstrated the intersection between memory and suffering; self-inflicted pleasure and pain generated through metaphors as a means to translate chronic illness and, in… Read more