The Gallow Gate

20/04/2021

www.thegallowgate.art/natakinyi

In 2019, we invited Nat Akinyi to create a solo exhibition of new works in Glasgow. The original exhibition was site-specific, re-creating a scene within the gallery. It took us quite a long time to figure out how to present this work in a pandemic, taking care to ourselves and the work. You can now view ‘For Good or Ill’ via our website, a digital exhibition of new works presented in collaboration with coder, Abdulkadir Awel.

A new body of work was created between 2020-21, inspired by conversations with Nat’s aunt and grandmother, recalling their experiences of the professional workplace in Kenya during and post colonialism.

The exhibition can only be viewed on computers or tablets to preserve the quality of the image and encourage engagement with the artworks. The website will be live until 9 July 2021.

This project has been supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and in collaboration with CodeYourFuture.

'For Good or Ill' will be the last exhibition at The Gallow Gate. Following this show, we will present two other projects over the next 6 months to conclude the programme. Thanks to everyone for their support and engagement with this programme!

18/01/2021

Nat’s Window, by Nat Akinyi, is currently showing at The Gallow Gate (at Many Studios) viewable from outside the gallery at 3 Ross Street, G1 5AR. More info is available at www.thegallowgate.art/natakinyi. The work will show until 5pm today/Tues/Wed this week (& 10-3, Mon-Fri until March, unless otherwise stated)

📸 Matthew Arthur Williams
This project is supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

31/07/2020

Now streaming at www.jhg.art as part of our online exhibitions programme, John Hansard Gallery is pleased to present The Expulsion by artist Larry Achiampong from 1–31 August 2020.

Commissioned by The Gallow Gate in 2019, the short film highlights the rich interior world of an unnamed migrant with references to themes of race, class and gender, and is a deeply personal work from the imagination of Achiampong.

In this work, Larry Achiampong invokes the energy and memories of a pre-gentrified 1990s East London; weaving testimonies and daydreams with the monotonous rhythms of physical labour and the weight of frustrating consumerist aspirations in the city’s West End. Achiampong guides us through to a shadow world of “invisible” workers by transmuting the common acts of cleaning and maintenance into something that has the power of the rituals of prayer or a sequence of launch codes.

Shot in 4k resolution, The Expulsion’s lyrical script, undulating visuals and hypnotic original score connect an ever-present past to current concerns of societal iniquity, class ceilings and erased histories.

The Expulsion formed part of When the Sky Falls, Achiampong’s exhibition with John Hansard Gallery earlier in 2020 before lockdown measures were put in place.

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04/07/2020

Context: Beyond the devastation wrought on our health and economies, and especially on artists, COVID-19 has resulted in some innovative re-imaginings of how art may be shared within highly restricted atmospheres.  Artists have generated ideas from the whimsical to those of sobering gravitas. In an...

28/06/2020

This is the last day that Arthur Jafa's work 'Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016)' is available to watch at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Some questions to think about post watching:
1. Describe your inner thoughts and feelings after viewing this work.
2. If that thought or feeling had a color or shape what would it be? Where does it live in your body?
3. How do you distinguish the messages you tell yourself from the messages you’ve been told? How are they connected?
4. What does it mean to take/occupy space? How do you make space, take space for yourself? How do you hold space for others who look like you, and who don’t?
5. What is one kind and loving act you will do for yourself today?

In collaboration with 12 other art institutions across the United States and Europe, The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Studio Screen will proudly present a 48-hour continuous stream of Arthur Jafa’s 2016 video Love is the Message, The Message is Death beginning at 2:00 pm on Friday, June 26.

16/06/2020

Are you a creative practitioner or collective, and looking to host an online event or activity?

16/06/2020

A call has been made to white art workers to take on the labour of grant application writing for Black artists working in Scotland. Many working in institutions have been furloughed and have the skills and the time to support this scheme.

To access the sheet email [email protected] and we will send a link.