Glasgow Open House Arts Festival is a non-profit, artist-led organisation that aims to improve access to the arts for everyone in three main ways: offering opportunities for artists from all backgrounds, expanding community engagement with art and providing new meaningful ‘spaces’ to engage with art and ideas.
Our Art Group is a space for members to relax and express themselves. Over the pandemic, this community of artists have been working together over zoom trying new approaches and techniques. Art has been an important outlet for many people over the lockdown, as an activity to keep busy but also as a means of socialising and connecting with others.
The hours spent making and experimenting together while apart have been very special and will not be forgotten.
All works in the exhibition have been made over the 18 months since lockdown. A creative practice and outlet have been very important for many people during the pandemic. Much of the work has been shared in our monthly mail out to members to brighten the harder days. Now they’re able to meet again in person we’d like to share what we made during the lockdowns with the wider Glasgow community.