From 2013-15 I co-founded and directed Glasgow Open House Art Festival that supported over 300 artists in the city to exhibit work in alternative spaces.
Glasgow Open House Art Festival is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation that was founded in order to meet the practical needs of the city’s grassroots art community and takes its lead from Glasgow’s already prevalent ‘Do-It-Yourself’ culture in relation to visual art and music.
The festival provides a platform for artists both emerging and established, opening up their practices — and in many instances, their homes — to new audiences. By removing art from conventional spaces and embedding it within the very fabric of the city — its tenements, disused buildings, wastelands, and other unsung spaces — Glasgow Open House Art Festival transforms the landscape of Glasgow, thereby offering a new perspective of the city to its inhabitants.