About

Stories from Glasgow is a mixed-media exhibition of artwork by Glasgow residents that amplifies some of the city’s diverse and too often overlooked narratives. Rooted in lived experience and shaped through collaborative making, the exhibition brings together collage, print, photography, sound, spoken word, and graffiti to honour the multiplicity of voices that make Glasgow what it is.

The in-person exhibition takes place at South Block in Glasgow from 06-26 February 2026. Here’s how to get here & accessibility information.

Developed through a series of workshops delivered across three of the city’s booster wards – Calton, Govan, and Govanhill – the project foregrounds creative expression as a vital tool for reclaiming space, telling truths, and forging connection. Each ward carries its own histories of resilience, transformation, and tension; the artworks presented here emerge directly from those contexts, offering intimate glimpses into stories that rarely reach gallery walls.

Participants worked closely with a group of Glasgow-based artists and practitioners whose practices centre accessibility, experimentation, and community engagement.

The five workshops were led by:

• Alice Dansey Wright • visual artist and designer
• Eoin Carey • photographer
• Ross B-Side • graffiti and street artist
• Print Clan • community screen printing studio
• The Sound Lab • organisation offering free music and sound production opportunities

The resulting exhibition is a collective portrait of a city in flux – one that refuses simplification. Instead, Stories from Glasgow celebrates the fragmentary, the handmade, the whispered, and the boldly declared. It holds space for voices that challenge the dominant narratives and invites audiences to encounter Glasgow through a lens of co-creation, imagination, and mutual respect.

Rather than presenting a single narrative of the city, Stories from Glasgow operates as a constellation of voices. Some are whispered, some are defiant, some remain deliberately anonymous. Together, they form a collective portrait of a fluid city- one that cannot be reduced to tokenism, branding exercises or surface-level representation. In this exhibition, we embrace the fragmentary and the unfinished, acknowledging that many of these stories are still unfolding.

Care, consent, and accessibility are embedded throughout the project’s structure. Decisions around authorship, attribution, and display have been made in dialogue with the artist-participents, recognising that visibility is not always synonymous with empowerment. In doing so, the exhibition challenges conventional gallery hierarchies and asks what it could mean to encounter art through mutual respect rather than consumption.

In this exhibition, you will notice the absence of individual wall labels naming the creators of certain works. This is a deliberate curatorial decision. Many of the artists involved are currently in care or in otherwise vulnerable situations, and for some, anonymity is a necessary form of protection. Others have chosen not to be individually named.

Where consent has been given, artists’ names are included collectively. If you are interested in purchasing a work from the exhibition and supporting the artists involved, please contact the curator, Leo Hajducki, at leohajducki@gmail.com.

Curated by Leo Hajducki
Produced by Amy Milner
Project Development/Management by Deni Smith (Arts in the City)

This website and the online aspect of the exhibition was developed as part of the project (created by Mairi Lowe), and is managed by the curator.

For curatorial support or sales please contact our curator Leo Hajducki at leohajducki@gmail.com. For any other enquiries, please contact Deni.

Project Partners: Wasps South Block • Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (Central Continuing and After Care Services) • Glasgow 850 • Glasgow City Council

Project Facilitators: Alice Dansey-Wright • Eoin Carey • Ross B-Side • Print Clan CIC • The Sound Lab