Sauchiehall Street Heritage Artists in Communities: 24 Things to Tell You

From 1pm on Friday 11 April until 1pm on Saturday 12 April, Molly Jack and Craig McCorquodale rallied local people and businesses on Sauchiehall Street to install a plurality of opinions, memories or future visions of the street in public space. Capturing a sense of Glasgow’s complex and enduring relationship to Sauchiehall Street, these happenings occurred consecutively and offer surprising, intimate, humorous, reflective, confessional or outspoken takes on life there. 

Over 6 months, Craig and Molly worked with 24 different groups, individuals and businesses to curate the 24 interventions, working with them to honour the stories of the people who live, work and play on Sauchiehall Street.

From nightclubs to shawarma shops, shop windows and outdoor performances – each intervention posed questions about Glasgow’s history and legacies, inviting conversation and engagement with wider audiences on the street as the day unfolded. 

See a full list of the interventions on the project website 

Craig and Molly collaborated with:

Amy Li-Man and 4 other members of Wing Hong Elderly Chinese Centre, P5/6 of Garnetbank Primary School, Karen Reynolds, the staff and 25 visitors to Hengler’s Circus Wetherspoons, Anne Taggart, Josie Ko, Mila Brown, Margaret Watt, Maureen McKeever, Nikita Lukinoff, Tom at The Piano Project CIC, Barney McCue (projectionist at GFT for over 30 years), Marion Pearson, 20 regulars at The Variety Bar, 5 couples who met at The Garage: John and Lynda Toms, Julie and Barry Wheelan, Nicole and Russell Paton, Lucy and James Smith, Gordon and Emma Boyle, 5 people from Glasgow’s Punk scene, Hajar, Maria and Anna at Hajar Shawarma and their staff, Carmen Moore (resident on Dalhousie Street, displaced during the Art School fires), Mohammed Asif, Aisha Asif, Saquib Razzaq (South Asian local people introduced via Colourful Heritage), Spence, Cam and 12 people who selected songs at Assai Records, Chitra Ramaswamy, Amy Strzoda and the 13 members of Garnethill Choir, Peter Flood, Libby McArthur, Eleanor Bucanhan and the five people they met at the start of the process who had danced at The Locarno.

This work was commissioned by the Sauchiehall Street Culture and Heritage District, in partnership with Glasgow City Council, with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

Photos - Still Motion Graphics