COMMONSpace

All exhibitions are co-created and co-curated with local partners who are expert in the issues raised, including the impacted community, service providers, and artists. As such, displays are devised, created, and designed with, and by, individuals from different professional backgrounds. We believe that through these exhibitions we can celebrate the power of creativity, demonstrating the potential for art to open new ways of looking at different experiences. We also hope that these displays can help create a safe space for visitors to learn and connect around tough issues and to get positively involved.

2025 has been another busy year in our work with community groups and under-represented audiences. As we get ready for a new round of community displays, we thought it was time for a roundup of our past year.

This exhibition was an exploration of safety, feeling safe, feeling unsafe, and the journey between the two. The artworks on display were completed at GoMA by members of Time and Space, a support service for people who hear voices and people who self-harm.

Workshops were led by the GoMA Learning Team, with the support of artists Miriam Ali, Abi Pirani, Didi Marina Salonia, and Garry Steven. The artists have supported the group in experimenting with photography, painting, creative writing, and zine making, to express their experiences through these mediums. The results of these workshops have been curated by the group in this exhibition.

If you or anyone you know are struggling, help is available. Call Samaritans on 116 123 or text SHOUT to 85258. For more information on Time and Space, contact info@timeandspace.org.uk  or call 07568358912.

This was the third year of the Glasgow Schools’ Art Exhibition and second year of the partnership between GoMA and Glasgow CREATE (CReativity and Expressive Arts Transforming Education). Schools were asked to submit works inspired by this year’s celebration of Glasgow’s 850th anniversary. We exhibited works from S1-6 pupils across 13 Glasgow schools: Whitehill Secondary School, St Paul’s High School, St Mungo’s Academy, Springburn Academy, Lourdes Secondary School, Holyrood Secondary School, Hollybrook Academy, Govan High LCR, Glasgow Gaelic School, Eastbank Academy, Cardinal Winning Secondary School, Rosshall Academy and Hillhead High School.

“How Are We?” was an exhibition curated by the GOMA Youth Group 2024/25. The group wanted to explore the connection between community, Glasgow, and each other, whilst celebrating the time spent together over the past year.

The artworks on display were either made collaboratively with members of the public (during workshops facilitated by the group) or created by individual group members.

The title “How Are We?” was meant as a prompt for visitors to take time to think about how they were feeling, and to encourage connections with each other in the space. 

The GoMA Youth Group is a collective of artists and creatives aged 18-26 from Glasgow and surrounding areas. We met weekly to create, discuss and share ideas, culminating in a series of public workshops and this exhibition. We have connected through our love of art, and we are excited to share the work we have made as a community. 

A new exhibition at GoMA with the artist Jessica Ramm, who is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Her work in sculpture, print and performance explores themes of vulnerability, communication and connection. She often works collaboratively, and the relationships she builds inform how her material processes unfold.

For Hard Edges Soft Layers, Jessica explored vulnerability in relation to motherhood, drawing from the fear, shame and wonder she experienced in the early days of parenthood. Hard Edges Soft Layers is an exhibition of new works that came out of her personal reflections alongside research into female collective action, histories of witchcraft and portrayals of motherhood and breastfeeding in art.

This exhibition is part of The Milky Way programme at GoMA which was developed by Mammas Write (a collective of mothers determined to continue creating through the chaos of new motherhood), Jessica Ramm and staff at the museum as part of Feed. Feed is a collaborative art project that challenges social stigmas around human milk and promotes inclusive, sustainable approaches to infant feeding and public space. Feed has been developed as part of In Certain Places, a public art research project based at the University of Lancashire. GoMA’s project The Milky Way and this exhibition are funded by the Arts Council of England and Glasgow Life.