Glasgow Print Studio

For over 50 years, Glasgow Print Studio has supported artists, nurtured creativity, and connected communities through printmaking. Today, we are facing a serious financial challenge following a significant rise in rent charges at Trongate 103. While we are grateful for interim support from Glasgow City Council, we urgently need help to secure our future. More than a workshop and gallery, GPS is a creative home for artists, learners, staff, and visitors - supporting hundreds of artists and welcoming thousands of people through our doors every year. Your donation, no matter the size, will directly support artists, learning, and access to printmaking in Glasgow. Please consider donating today via the link in our bio.

We need your support. Glasgow Print Studio is facing rising rent and increasing running costs, putting a vital creative space - and the artists who rely on it - at risk. For over 50 years, Glasgow Print Studio has been a place where people come to learn, make, and build sustainable creative careers. Losing it would mean losing access, opportunity, and an important part of Glasgow’s cultural life. Here’s how you can help: * Sign and share the petition (link in bio) * Buy an artwork and support an artist directly * Join a course and learn to print (link in bio) * Make a donation, if you’re able (link in bio) * Attend a peaceful protest and stand with us Join us to protest Friday 27 March, 12 till 2pm, 229 George St, Glasgow, G1 1QU Every action matters, and every bit of support helps protect this space for future generations of artists. Please share widely.

Kate Downie’s work captures the shifting landscapes of Scotland - from industrial structures and coastal edge-scapes to the hidden worlds of plants and trees. Part of our new three-person exhibition alongside Bronwen Sleigh and Fiona Watson, Downie’s practice is shaped by decades of travel, site-specific residencies, and an enduring fascination with place, industry, and environment. Known for her immersive approach to working on location - from oil rigs to the Forth Road Bridge - her paintings and drawings offer a deeply personal vision of Scotland’s changing landscapes. All works are available to purchase via the link in our bio Until 30th May 2026 Image: Kate Downie Moving Mountain #5 monoprint 44.5 x 39 cm 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 in unique £750

Exploring the overlooked edges of the city with Bronwen Sleigh... Part of our current three-person exhibition alongside Kate Downie and Fiona Watson, Sleigh’s work draws inspiration from industrial architecture, forgotten urban spaces, and the shifting environments found at the margins of the city. Through printmaking and layered processes, her works transform familiar places into something unfamiliar - inviting a slower, more considered way of seeing space and structure. All works are available to purchase via the link in our bio Until 30th May 2026 1. Bronwen Sleigh Househillwood Road I, 2021 hand-coloured etching 59 x 59 cm 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in edition of 25 £650 2. Bronwen Sleigh Carnwath Avenue, 2022 hand-coloured etching 59 x 59 cm 23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in edition of 30 £650

Love , Love , Love my booklet for ‘Walk in the Park’ designed by @tufftay & Murray Robertson @glasgowprintstudio with text from fellow artists @al_gow @asherscook @graemewilcoxartist @scottcampbellmodern Helen Nathaniel-Fulton & Helen Wilson

Incredible work from our Drypoint weekend with Gregory Moore - so many fantastic results (and some excellent feedback too!). Feeling inspired? Head to our website (https://glasgowprintstudiolearning.simplybook.it/v2/) to browse our upcoming printmaking classes.

We’re off at London Original Print Fair 2026 at Somerset House. Great to be back here for another year. Come and see us at stand W2 at the start of the west wing. #londonoriginalprintfair2026 #somersethouse #glasgowprintstudio #printmaking

A closer look at the intricate world of Fiona Watson... Part of our new three-person exhibition featuring works by Kate Downie, Bronwen Sleigh, and Fiona Watson, which continues in the Ground Floor Gallery until the 30th of May. Drawing on her background in biological sciences, Watson’s meticulous works explore the patterns, rhythms, and symbolism found in nature - balancing observation with imagination, and beauty with playful curiosity. All works are available to purchase via the link in our bio Images: 1. Fiona Watson Where Have I Known You Before? etching 63 x 67 cm 24 3/4 x 26 3/8 in edition of 20 £480 2. Fiona Watson One Singer, One Song etching 56 x 59 cm 22 1/8 x 23 1/4 in edition of 40 £450

Thanks to everyone who came along last Thursday evening to celebrate the opening of Lesley Logue’s Featured Artist exhibition here at Glasgow Print Studio The exhibition continues until 30 May - we hope to see you in the gallery soon. Photos: @fionawatsonart

Exhibition continues // Some Rhythms Persist, a two-person exhibition by Shenece Oretha and Camara Taylor. Until 30 May 2026 Bringing together sculpture, sound, and printmaking, the exhibition foregrounds experimental material processes developed during a Production Residency at Glasgow Print Studio, supported by the Henry Moore Foundation. Shenece Oretha’s practice centres on the sonic and symbolic potential of plants, particularly within the “grass family” - including rice, sugarcane, and grains central to global food systems and colonial economies. Her works draw on Caribbean histories of resistance and survival, where “concealment in bushes and plants” and knowledge of the natural world enabled maroonage and ambush. In Come See, Come Hear, copper plates etched and struck with mallets become both visual and sonic instruments, while rice-based works such as In Spite and In Spirit foreground endangered agricultural lineages. Oretha describes plants as “the original instruments… you wouldn’t have the shaker and percussion if you didn’t have moving plants and bushes.” Images: 1 & 2: Shenece Oretha Come See, Come Hear, 2026 instrument malleted etched copper and nails on wood 124 x 64 cm 48 7/8 x 25 1/4 in Courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Patrick Jameson 3 & 4: Shenece Oretha In Spite and in Spirit, 2026 steel drum lid, sound and rice (oryza glaberimma) Courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Patrick Jameson

Huge thanks to everyone who made it along to celebrate the opening of our three person show featuring work by Fiona Watson, Bronwen Sleigh and Kate Downie last week. The exhibition continues until the 30th of May. All works are available to purchase via the link in our bio. Photos @fionawatsonart

For this month’s ‘Pupil Picks’ we have Sarah, S5 pupil from Grangemouth High School, writing about an archive artwork by John Byrne: Harlequin with Guitar, 1998, Etching, 53x40cm “I picked this print because whenever I am looking on the Archive I always see it and think it is very beautiful. Another reason was the mark making in it, used to create form. This was to help me with a piece of my own work that I was struggling with as I was unable to capture the form of the object with line and mark making. Seeing this print in real life helped me to understand how to create form through mark making.” The image consists of a harlequin which is a jester-like figure as the focal point of the print and they seem to be strumming a guitar on a stool. There are curtains in the background of the print which make it seem like this print is set on a stage in a theatre, maybe the Harlequin is performing to an audience. When I look at this print, I feel inspired by it and seeing it first hand was amazing as it really shows me how different the print looks in real life compared to the website where it was light in tone. The print has individual marks on the plate that is incredible to look at in person and this creates form in the print. I felt inspired by this artwork as it gave the insight into how to create this look in my own work.” - Sarah Margaret Kennedy As part of PRINT FUTURES, we invited Grangemouth High School pupils to choose a print from our archive and tell us why it stood out or had an impact on their appreciation of printmaking. The prints were chosen online, pulled from the archive room and taken into school for the pupils to see up close. PRINT FUTURES is a 3-year schools programme funded by Falkirk Council Education Services, in partnership with Grangemouth High School and Glasgow Print Studio. The project is passing on traditional knowledge and practical skills in the production and understanding of fine art printmaking to pupils, teaching staff and the wider community through a programme of workshops, events and showcase exhibitions.