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Strange Field provides opportunities for creative experimentation, learning, and development, with a focus on underrepresented and early-stage career artists, and our local community, at both French Street and The Pipe Factory in Glasgow's East End.

10/09/2026

Strange Field is pleased to announce 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, an upcoming group exhibition by Andy Murray, Isaac Heard and Oscar Marcus Boyle. Featuring a new body of work, the three artists pick up from where they left off in their previous collective outing, Dust Roulette (2023).

The exhibition elaborates upon a shared interest in using Gothic and Romantic impulses to compose a pathway to the cosmic elsewhere. Spiralling through history, they take the form of notional satellites orbiting this constructed world and its failed utopias, searching for what redemption can be found in dreams of the future, whilst stuck on a conveyor belt of matryoshka nightmares from the present moment. Can dreams begin again? A crystalline glow refracts light on a harvest moon.

‘Fly me to the moon,
Let me play among the stars,
Let me see what spring is like,
On Jupiter and Mars,
In other words, hold my hand…’
– Bart Howard, 1954

Preview: Thursday 22 October, 6-9pm

🗓️ Exhibition: 22-30 October 2026, Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
📍 Strange Field, 105 French Street, G40 4EH

Curated by Eden Bø Dower, Curator in Residence at Strange Field.

Stained Glass Space Station is presented as part of Strange Field’s Selected Open Programme, providing space and critical friend support to artists in Glasgow.

30/08/2026

⭐ Join us for the 3rd annual open studios at French Street for a peek into the latest artwork and music by our resident creatives. ⭐

Date: 3rd of September 6-9pm

This event is BYOB, pizza provided x

Poster credits: Anton Geryon .volcano

19/08/2026

In residency with Strange Field, Choin and Pien are conducting a collaborative practice-based research project. The project takes Helen Molesworth’s book Part Object Part Sculpture as its point of departure. As the title suggests, the book traces the trajectory through which the object came to transform the concept of sculpture. However, they seek to reverse this trajectory. Their project, Part Sculpture Part Object, focuses not only on the process by which an object becomes sculpture, but also on the reverse process, how sculpture returns to the state of an object.

Throughout the residency, the two artists respond to and intervene in what the other has left behind or done. Rather than attempting to unify their distinct thematic interests, they experiment with passing on and unsettling the sculptural logic embedded in each other’s work. In this context, unmaking the other’s work is not an act of negation. Instead, it becomes another form of making, one that reopens the work and shifts it toward new possibilities. A seemingly finished sculpture is loosened again, its function and meaning becoming unstable and ambiguous, moving toward a state akin to a found object.

11/07/2026

🚲 Week 1 of Slow Routes to Resilience.

After many miles on the road and conversations with community-owned venues, artist-run spaces and grassroots organisations in Helston, Falmouth, Plymouth, Watchet, Bristol, Cardiff and the Brecon Beacons, some patterns are already beginning to emerge. Different contexts, different histories, remarkably similar questions.

Almost everyone we’ve met is grappling with the same challenges: insecure buildings, paying core labour, unpicking the complexities of governance to reflect shared values, and finding the additional time required to challenge the status quo and move towards stability - often at the cost of being proactive, sacrificed in the chase for security.

What’s striking is how much thinking is happening in parallel. Across the UK, people are developing their own methods to address the same issues - often with little contact between the organisations and collectives doing this thinking.There’s an incredible wealth and depth of knowledge, passion and care being built, but also a huge duplication of effort.

We’ve also been struck by how often this work is being led by women, and how much of it is or has been unpaid - which raises a question about how this kind of work is valued in the first place. Access to long-term security still seems shaped by existing wealth, networks, or simply being in the right place at the right time: who can afford to wait out the slow process of ownership.

If there’s one thing we’ve taken from the first week, it’s that these aren’t isolated organisation problems. They’re structural ones. The solutions to this are already being imagined, tested and shared by communities across the UK.

💛Huge thank you to everyone who has welcomed us, fed us, hosted us and shared your experiences so openly so far: The Cornish Bank, Pam, East Quay, Watchet, CASTcornwall, Peak Cymru, Nudge Community Builders, ℂ𝕌𝔹𝔼 ℂ𝕀ℕ𝔼𝕄𝔸, Bricks, Cafe Kino, , .form. PRSC - Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, The Croft 💛

Next stop London! 🥵

Slow Routes to Resilience is funded and supported by Creative Scotland Go See Share Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

03/07/2026

🧱⚒️🏭 In 2019 Strange Field initiated and led the campaign to purchase The Pipe Factory as a community asset. We fought an eviction to protect the hundreds of hours of voluntary labour, 6 years of public programming and £350,000 of public money already invested. But owning a building wasn’t the end of the story.

This summer, we are cycling more than 1,600 miles to Lerwick, visiting over 30 community-owned venues, artist-run spaces and grassroots organisations exploring alternative ways of organising and community life.

We’re calling the project Slow Routes to Resilience.

It’s part research, part slow journey, and part excuse to spend time with people asking some of the same questions we are: How do we hold onto cultural spaces for the long term? Who gets to make decisions? How do we build organisations and infrastructure that support artists without reproducing the extractive systems many of us are trying to move beyond?

Along the way we’ll be sharing conversations, reflections and stories from people putting ownership, collective governance, cooperative models and long-term stewardship into action across the UK. This journey isn’t about finding one answer: it’s about listening, learning and building connections between people already doing the work.

This journey is dedicated to the memory of our friend and former colleague Emma Semple. We’re fundraising to continue the kind of work she cared so deeply about and to support the Scottish Association for Mental Health. A link will be shared shortly.

Slow Routes to Resilience is funded and supported by Creative Scotland Go See Share Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. We’d also like to thank our local partners Pro Sound Services and Bike for Good Glasgow.

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05/06/2026

No culture without Palestinian culture 🇵🇸

02/06/2026

A huge thank you to for suppporting the tranformation for our upcoming and exhibition. . . Full reveal on Sat.

28/05/2026

Opening Tonight
All welcome

Somanria
Opening (All welcome) Thu 28th 6pm - 9.30pm

Exhibition Opening Times
Fri 29th May 12 -6pm
Sat 30th May 12-6pm
Sun 31st May 12-6pm
Mon 1st June 12-6pm

105 French Street, Dalmarnock

Somnaria showcases the work of artists, designers and illustrators working and studying in Glasgow's East End at Glasgow Kelvin College. The show spans painting, sculpture, illustration, animation, photography, printmaking and installation.

The exhibition also highlights how art connects people and place - generating shared experiences thay reach well beyond the studio. On show are a range of public projects and community workshops that Kelvin students led and delivered on in partnership with Strange Field.

Thank you to all of our partners involved - special thanks to Carmen Barrett , Sandra Berwick at Developing Young Workforce , Anne and Bridegton Community Learning Campus, .scot and .

14/05/2026

Join us at Strange Field for Tahliah Simumba in conversation with Gray Wielebinski, celebrating the opening of 𝘈 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦 for .

🗓️ Saturday 6 June 2026
🕟 Doors 4:30pm, talk 5-6pm
📍 Strange Field, 105 French Street, G40 4EH
🎟️ Tickets available on a sliding scale – please choose what feels right for you.
🔗 Link in bio for tickets and more information.

A preview and opening reception will follow from 6-8pm (free + unticketed).

Access: The talk will take place within the exhibition on the ground floor. The space has step-free access, gender neutral toilets, and an accessible toilet via lift.

Please note that seating is limited. Get in touch in advance if you require a guaranteed seat and we’ll ensure one is available.

Supported by Glasgow International, Creative Scotland and Strange Field.

05/05/2026

Strange Field presents 𝘈 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦, the first solo show of Scottish artist and musician Tahliah Simumba, for

The exhibition is part of our open programme, which provides vital space and support for artists in Glasgow, and will take place at Strange Field’s French Street space. Exhibition production and curatorial support by Eden Bø Dower, as part of their curatorial residency at Strange Field.

Preview: Saturday 6 June 2026, 6-9pm

🗓️ Exhibition open: 7-21 June 2026 Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
📍 Strange Field, 105 French Street, G40 4EH

Supported by Strange Field, Creative Scotland and Glasgow International (with funds from the Scottish Government’s Festival EXPO Fund).

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105-109 French Street
Glasgow
G404EH

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http://www.strangefield.org/

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