MFA Glasgow School of Art

Horsepower presents 'Porthole', a solo exhibition of new work by Holly O’Brien (MFA 2024) bringing together sculpture, video and live performance. Opening on Thursday 21 May, 6-8pm. Performances at 6.30 and 7.15pm. @horsepowerpowerhorse In her performance, O’Brien appears as the mermaid, a hybrid figure born from myth but distorted by the platforms through which bodies are seen and consumed online. In the video, she becomes a hostess through which the work unfolds, luring the viewer into a realm where fantasy, intimacy and image are no longer easily separated. She is the Sheela-na-Gig: both our entrance to the world and an exit from it. The mermaid confronts the viewer directly, but the encounter is never intimate. Her reflective eyes refuse reciprocity, acting instead like the black mirror of the smartphone. What should be a moment of connection is held at a distance. You can look, but you cannot touch. Stories of mermaids surface across cultures from ancient Assyria to West Africa to the Scottish coast, evidence of Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious: a shared psychic reservoir from which mythic figures emerge as expressions of fear and desire. O'Brien’s practice asks what that reservoir has become in an age shaped by digital platforms, and what kinds of creatures it now yields. Her works are made from latex and gelatine, materials that hold a flesh-like viscerality that pushes against the weightless, disembodied experience of the online. They are hybrid forms drawn from social media, streaming platforms and adult content; systems that ceaselessly produce and circulate bodies as images. The influence of pornography runs through the work as perhaps the most extreme system in which the image of the encounter replaces the encounter itself. As a woman in her early forties, living with these platforms over time has placed her within an environment that addresses her body directly, insistently, shaping the desires and anxieties that surface in the work.

Mint&Serf: Between Language&Art Book Release exhibition at Grateful in Glasgow, Scotland on April 30th 6 - 9pm. Mikhail Sokovikov (MFA 2019) is one half of Mint&Serf. @gratefulglasgow @themirf ‘A comprehensive work chronicling over twenty five years of our collaborative in-studio work and outdoor practice. This limited-edition publication features unreleased in-action photographs, our signature scribble drawings and therapy paintings, behind-the-scenes studio shots, MIRF ephemera, anecdotal narration, and photos of vintage New York City dating back to 1998 when we first met at the 18th Avenue Park in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The volume spans 468 colourful pages across three languages (English, Japanese, German), weaving together seven essays with photographs from more than thirty notable contributors and collaborators including: Richie Shazam, Peter Sutherland, late Christopher Johnson, Sean Vegezzi, Olivia Malone, Julia Fox, Osvaldo Chance Jimenez, Lorenzo Fariello, Caleb Bark, Luna Park, John Francis Peters, David Forer, Pablo Power, Misha Most, NOV YORK, Jonathan Krohn, Wes Knoll, Michael Krim, Sacha Jenkins SHR, Mateo Suarez, Misha Most, Megan Garwood, Armando Nin, Falcon Duran, Scott Furkay, and many others who have been part of our journey to this day.‘ Show ends 5pm Sunday 3rd May

< IN HER BEDROOM >, is a solo exhibition by Heeyoung Noh now open at David Dale Gallery until 9th May, open Friday and Saturday, 12–5pm. @_no_bro_ @david_dale_gallery Heeyoung Noh (b. 1995, South Korea) graduated from the MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2024. She was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2025. Recent exhibitions include, New Gen: The Emerging Voices, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London (2025); Submerged Attachment, The Tagli, London (2025); LAG, with LAG collective, Cosmo 40, Incheon (2024); RUB RUB RUB, Salt Space, Glasgow (2023); and DAMP, Gallery Philosophie, Seoul (2023). Through painting, Noh explores the complexities and precarity of diasporic identity as an East Asian woman in Scotland, whilst interrogating intergenerational trauma within private and personal spaces. < IN HER BEDROOM > will continue to confront these themes through a series of new paintings, whilst sharing a personal experience of living and finding joy despite the anxieties that underpin it all.

The Spell of the Sensuous is a solo show of new work by Henry Rogers who recently retired from his role as the MFA Programme Leader. Opening tomorrow evening 5- 7pm @scottlawriegallery_ in Edinburgh The exhibition runs from 2 - 18 April, open Wed - Sat 11am - 6pm

After 4 days of busy install, 42 Degrees is ready to go! 🎉🎉 We’ve put our all into it and we look forward to seeing everyone there!! Photos by @amyrobson.photography

Final part of our install interviews featuring @frostjeff ! SEE YOU TONIGHT! 42 Degrees, Glue Factory, 6-9pm! Open until the 2nd of April.

Final post of the day introduces the wonderful @kaylahowie.art from MFA 1 ✨ Come see these beautiful works in person from tomorrow until the 2nd April, Glue Factory!

Last post of the Artist Features from MFA 1! Come down to the Glue Factory to see all their wonderful artwork in person! 42 Degrees Glue Factory Preview on Friday 6-9pm 27th - 2nd April

Follow us round for the MFA Interim install! Come down this Friday 6-9 🫶🏻

Install interviews part 3 with Juliet! Come see the show this Friday 6-9 at Glue Factory!

Episode 3 of “In the Master of Fine Art Studios” featuring Tilly Johnson, who gives us a glimpse of her artistic process and the performance she’s workshopping for the upcoming MFA Interim Show and The Glue Factory. Come see the finished work in person at the Glue Factory ✨ 📅 March 27 🕕 6–9 PM 22 Farnell St, Glasgow Featuring @john.til_ Produced and edited by @serena.zena

Install interviews part 2 featuring Juniper! 42 Degrees at the Glue Factory Friday, 6-9!