The COMPASS curators present a contemporary craft exhibition that responds to the politics of housing.
If only we had the space is a new exhibition running from 17 to 26 October 2024 at Platform (Easterhouse, Glasgow).
This exhibition will respond to modern and contemporary politics of housing, property rights and access to space. It will feature a new commission by Jeni Allison, and works in textiles, ceramics and glass by Deirdre Nelson, Fionn Duffy and Jack Brindley, whose collective practices cross over art, design and craft.
These contemporary works will be contextualised in the space with Glasgow-based archival ephemera and film footage documenting housing activist movements and redevelopment schemes from Glasgow (archives included are from the 1960s to 1990s), and interviews with makers.
Through the craft of the four exhibiting makers and these significant moments in Glasgow’s housing history, this exhibition will explore ‘the through line of creative inhabitation, the changing role of homes as places of production as well as domesticity and negotiating the right to space’.
If only we had the space is curated by COMPASS Curators as part of Craft Scotland’s first Emerging Curators programme.
If only we had the space is curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant. Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead. Supported by Platform, Inches Carr Craft Bursaries and Creative Scotland.
