GSA Degree Show 2025: Heads Up

GSA Highlands & Islands Summer Show
Altyre Campus, Blairs Farm Steading, Altyre Estate, Moray, IV36 2SH
6 Jun, 11am-8pm
An exhibition showcasing work from the GSA Highlands and Islands campus, generating future opportunities for collaboration across the region in learning, research and knowledge exchange.

GSASA Degree Show Afterparty 2025: The Last Dance!
29 May, The Vic and Assembly
The Vic and Assembly is the place to be for students and friends celebrating the success of their exhibition previews. DJs Town Centre, Honey and Naman are in The Vic from 10pm, while GSA student radio station Hill52, Eclair Fifi, and Spencer take over the Assembly Hall from 11pm. This rite of passage is one for the books and should not be missed. We've leaned into a Y2K, American prom aesthetic with an art school edge.

GSA Highlands & Islands.

Open Studio Summer Exhibition
30 May-8 Jun, Fleming House, 134 Renfrew Street
Running in person and online, the Open Studio Summer Exhibition will feature work from the GSA Widening Participation programme, the Castlehead School of Creativity and the Glasgow Clyde College Associate Student Scheme.

Wastelands and the City
Reid Lecture Theatre, The Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street
Wednesday 11 Jun, 3-5.30 pm
In our fourth seminar in the Wastelands and the City series, entitled Re-making from Waste: Re-imagining Glasgow with time, space and nature, with Frances Robertson, Callum Sutherland, and Seamus Connelly, will focus on different areas of the City of Glasgow.

In this session, we bring together an artist-theorist, a human geographer, and a public servant to think dynamically and openly about the possibilities afforded by such sites as well as to reveal the engagements already taking place in the city.

Portfolio Preparation – Creative Practices Course
Courses running from June
The Portfolio Preparation course is a great way to learn about crafting a portfolio in a collaborative and welcoming studio environment. Ideal for those intending on applying to art schools, the course is structured to help you choose an area of art and design to study, and has a track record of getting students places at top art schools across the UK. Visit the Study pages on the GSA website for more information on the course and how to apply. 

Portfolio Preparation

Postgraduate Degree Show 2025
29 Aug-7 Sep
Just a few weeks after the Degree Show, you can explore a showcase of work from students on Postgraduate programmes across the GSA. You’ll find innovations in design and technology alongside explorations in sculpture, painting, printmaking and fashion. And just like the undergraduate Degree Show, there is an online showcase which gives you the chance to experience the show beyond exhibition spaces. Visit gsapostgradshowcase.net for more information.

Switch Track, Victoria Morton
Reid Gallery, Reid Building, 167 Renfrew Street (Mon-Sat 10-4.30pm)
28 Jun-9 Aug
Switch Track is a survey show of selected works from 1995–2025. This period represents 30 years of painting since Victoria Morton graduated from the Master of Fine Art programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 1995. Morton lives and works between Glasgow, Scotland, and Fossombrone, Italy. She studied painting and mixed media at the GSA from 1989 to 1995. Morton’s practice has encompassed painting, sculptural assemblages, photography, and sound. Her paintings vary in scale, opacity, colour and spatiality, each distinctly painted composition has been developed with a degree of intricacy and intuition. Influenced by musical composition, colour perception, everyday life alongside personal narratives, historical and cultural references, Morton’s works explore a continuously unfolding visual, spatial and psychological experience.

Victoria Morton

CATALOGUE: 25 years of Centre for Advanced Textiles at GSA 
Garnethill Gallery, Reid Building, 167 Renfrew Street
13 Sep-18 Oct
This retrospective exhibition explores the ground-breaking innovation and lasting contribution to the textile industry embedded in the 25-year history of the Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT) at The Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition will present a diverse and captivating overview of work from key moments of CAT’s 25-year history. The Centre provides a pioneering educational and commercial digital fabric printing and textile design service, consulting with students and staff at the GSA as well as high profile commercial clients and members of the public. The chosen works exemplify how CAT's expert team has collaborated with clients to push the boundaries of digital textile manufacturing.

Damian Barr: Two Roberts Author Talk
Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
9 Sep, 7pm
The Two Roberts is a love letter to Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, two near-forgotten stars of the 1930s art scene who met at The Glasgow School of art. Barr will deliver a talk about the creation of the book, and his process of drawing on real lives to recreate the past. Stunningly reimagined, The Two Roberts is a profoundly moving story of devotion and obsession, art and class. It is a love letter to MacBryde and Colquhoun, the almost-forgotten artists who tried to change the way the world sees – and paid a devastating price.

Damian Barr.

SurvØY: an artist survey of an island, Saoirse Higgins and Jonathan Ford
Reid Gallery, Reid Building, 167 Renfrew Street, (Mon-Sat 10-4.30pm)
20 Sep-1 Nov
SurvØY is a four-year Creative Scotland-funded project developed as a contemporary artist ‘island almanac’, surveying and monitoring varying scales of change in the context of the island environment of Papa Westray, one of the Orkney islands. In particular, the exhibition focuses on multiple viewpoints for resilient, caring, adaptive systems, providing a model benchmark to measure against for future generation islanders, islands and communities in times of rapid environmental change. 

War and Pieces of a Garden, Ian Hamilton Finlay 
Garnethill Gallery, Reid Building, 167 Renfrew Street
1-22 Nov
This exhibition in the Garnethill Gallery marks the centenary of celebrated Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006). Finlay is internationally recognised as a poet, writer, visual artist and gardener, and is best known for the garden Little Sparta, set in the windswept Pentland Hills of southern Scotland. The exhibition draws upon works from GSA Library Special Collections, alongside a number of prints and photographs from Finlay’s friends and collaborators. 

Saoirse Higgins.

Open Studio Summer Courses
Courses running throughout summer
The Glasgow School of Art’s Open Studio offers a range of creative short courses for both adults and young people. Courses for Young Creatives (7-15 years old) will run in week-long blocks between 28 July and 4 August, with classes bookable in morning or afternoon groups each day of the week. Young people can learn about what they like within art while picking up some skills in a range of areas like photography, creative sculpture and ceramics, graphic design and 2D and 3D making. 

This year’s summer courses for adults are ideal if you’re looking to hone a new skill or develop your practice within a specialist area. Courses include painting, wood carving, sculpture, graphic design, and jewellery.

GSA OPEN
Whether you’re just starting to consider coming to art school, or you’re almost ready to hit ‘send’ on your application, GSA OPEN offers events to support you at whatever stage you are on your application journey. Our year-long programme encompasses campus open days, online open house events, student-led campus tours, portfolio advice sessions and one-to-one sessions with staff. Find out more on the GSA website.

Race, Rights & Sovereignty
Established as a partnership between GSA’s Students’ Association (GSASA) and GSA Exhibitions, this public event series explores the relationship between race, place and creative practice. Events in the last year have included public lectures and artist-led talks, events and performances with Marline Smith, Camara Taylor, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Lisa Williams. Race, Rights and Sovereignty is currently programmed by artist, curator and researcher Beulah Ezeugo.

Sonica
Sep 2026
The Glasgow School of Art will be taking part in Sonica 2026, an 11-day biennial festival dedicated to world-class audiovisual art and sound. Loved for its adventurous, international programme, the event is an essential part of arts and culture within Glasgow.