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Many Studios

Name: Many Studios
Address: 3 Ross Street, The Barras, Glasgow, G15AR, GB
Telephone: +441415739515
Price range: ££
Rating: 4.2

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Many Studios is a creative hub in the East End of Glasgow, providing a wide range of workspaces and a venue for hire.
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Many Studios facilitates a dynamic, engaging, creative environment for its members and the public alike through our venue and studios provision. Many Studios is a creative organisation founded in 2010 as a not-for-profit business focused on providing affordable work and events space to artists, designers, craftspersons, and start-up creative businesses. We currently have forty unique spaces and ov

er sixty members at our Ross Street studios, including two shopfronts facing onto the historic Barras Market; as well as a gallery space currently home to the independent, artist-run, Market Gallery. We also have a bright, airy, accessible Events Space with large street-facing windows available for hire. Opposite the studios is our recent project the ‘Pocket Park’, a collaborative public city garden project developed with architects New Practice. Composed of a series of raised block planters, it offers a pocket of green within an otherwise urban environment.

31/10/2024

✨ Street-facing studio available ✨

A rare and exciting opportunity has come up to occupy a large street-facing studio in the heart of Many Studios. With floor to ceiling windows looking out onto Ross St, this is a perfect space for an individual artist, a creative practice, or micro-team who are interested in a warm, bright, open work space within a community of diverse creatives.

Details:
- 24.7 square metres (266 square feet)
- 24 hour access
- Large street-facing window
- Rent inclusive of all utilities, rates, and service
- Access to communal kitchen, internal bike storage, and facilities
- Use of additional Events Space
- 3 month rolling lease
- Imminent start date

To enquire and register interest, please email Building Manager Kate with a few details about your practice via [email protected]. (DMs will be replied to during weekdays).

18/10/2024

Very important member spotlight this week!

Happy Birthday to Rip It Up Vintage✨💜💛🧡💚
It’s been seven years this week since Kirsty moved into the shop unit on Kent Street and opened her vintage treasure trove, and it’s such a pleasure to see how the shop has blossomed over the years!

Thank you for being such a valuable part of the Many Studios community Kirsty !

15/10/2024

Always a pleasure to have hirers come back more than once, especially when they decide to run a series of events with us. We work to the needs of each group that spends time in our space, and do what we can to support all types of activity and users of the building:

“Staff at Many Studios are always VERY supportive and accommodating, we have used this venue many times and it will remain in our top rated venues in Glasgow!” - Lynsey, Social Enterprise Academy

Things are booking up for the rest of this season, although there are still some dates available. If you have an idea or plan for a series of events or workshops in the new year, get in touch.

Notes that we offer discounts for non-profits community groups, and for those who are actively organising against racism, fascism and oppression.

04/10/2024

Next up in our Studio Member Highlights: Introducing Victoria, aka 💐Brèagha Blooms 💐

“Brèagha Blooms is a seasonal floral design studio working throughout Central Scotland, run by florist and arts facilitator Victoria. They celebrate an eco friendly design approach, celebrating a vintage, eclectic floral style, with a wild organic aesthetic. Brèagha Blooms works only with UK grown flowers, collaborating with couples who are looking for alternative, and sustainable floral service in both traditional and more contemporary venues. Victoria is also an experienced community arts practitioner and regularly facilitates workshops for groups, parties and community organisations.”

Head over to to find out more 🌸🌼🌺

(Photo credits to the McYoungs and Joy Story) x

02/10/2024

Last weekend’s launch event for Annabel Stewart’s new collection of Highland’s inspired womenswear, menswear and accessories.

Total gorgeous everything.

Check out annabelstewart.com or .studio to view the new collection in full.

Photos by 💚

27/09/2024

Coming up next in the building:

Making Sense Exhibition

‘Making Sense’ is the first iteration of the Residency for Ideas in memory of Emma Burke Newman (2000-2023) a project facilitated by , and The Mackintosh School of Architecture.

Opening Night
Friday 4th Oct. 6 - 9pm

Exhibition open Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th Oct. 10 - 4pm
📍Many Studios, 3 Ross St, Glasgow

Find out more about the research and collaborators via the collective’s profile 🎇

25/09/2024

Introducing studio member 🎇 Liz Reid 🌃

“Liz Reid was brought up in Paisley before moving to Dundee to study illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. After an extensive career in local government, including a spell as Chair of Creative Exchange, the forum for public sector creatives in Scotland, Liz now lives in the east end of Glasgow and has worked as a full-time artist from her studio base in Many Studios since March 2023. “I love my wee space here. Working at Many Studios feels very calm and relaxed – sometimes I forget to go home!”

Liz enjoys plein air urban sketching and reportage, with a particular interest in architectural subjects, and she helps to lead the Glasgow Urban Sketchers group, drawing live on location around the city.

This October, Liz will be taking up residence for two weeks in the Art Space at Cass Art’s flagship store on Queen Street for her first solo show INK, an exhibition of works on paper – drawings, prints and urban sketches of Glasgow. Also on display will be 100 small works drawn on beer mats, a form of sketch diary created as part of the ‘100 Days Project Scotland’.

On 13th October, as a closing event for the exhibition Liz will be teaming up with author LG Thomson to discuss LG’s latest book, Bitter Fruit, a narrative memoir in which Liz is one of the main characters. The pair met at art school in 1981 and in this discussion they will reflect on their time there, what life was like for aspiring artists in 1980s Scotland, and the paths taken since.”

Liz Reid INK
Tuesday 1st – Sunday 13th October 2024
The Art Space, Cass Art Glasgow, 63 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3EN
FREE – open daily during shop opening hours
www.cassart.co.uk/stores/glasgow/

BITTER FRUIT
Sunday 13 October 2024 2.30–4pm
The Art Space, Cass Art Glasgow, 63 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3EN
Tickets £11.50
Book online: bitter_fruit.eventbrite.co.uk
Refreshments provided (over 18s only)
www.lgthomson.com

20/09/2024

Our events space has seen many an exhibition install, from pop-up showcases to the extended programming of . It allows for any number of set-ups with the large ground floor windows offering a clear view from the street.

“It offers a flexible space for our development workshops and plenty of options for curation. Communications are efficient and friendly and any issues are resolved quickly. Accessibility is important to us so the ground level entry, good public transport links and nearness to a cheap car park are significant pluses. We hope to be back next year.” - Workshops & Group Exhibition testimonial

If you are looking for a venue for your creative exhibition or event, get in touch for our availability and pricing 🙃✨

13/09/2024

Coming up at Many Studios: Annabel Stewart ‘Hillside - Drop Two’ Launch Evening 💃🏼

Studio Member and Fashion Designer Annabel Stewart is holding a launch evening on the release of her second collection of womenswear, menswear and accessories.

Join her on Saturday 21st September 7-9.30pm to view and celebrate the new designs.

Find out more about Annabel Stewart at annabelstewart.co.uk, or follow .studio

11/09/2024

Introducing Studio Member 🧡 artist, designer and researcher Hanna Paniutsich .xyz

“One of the most recent projects I have been developing in the studio was Vypramieńvannie/Radioactivity publication. You can check it out on some shelves of . Usually I spent time in the studio sitting at the desk and doing stuff on my computer — boring. I hope next year I will assemble and do more physical stuff as now I am preparing a series of bio-techy workshops. I am always up for collaboration especially with (web)design, coding, moving image and installation.

This book examines emotional, physical and ecological infrastructures coming from the view of the Alienation Zone around Charnobyl. The Alienation zone is an exclusion zone - a broader term defining special territories, where certain bodies become ejected or displaced. For instance my family was displaced from the zone after the catastrophe. This publication traces the history of radioactivity and radiation from Borjom mineral water to radioactive fungi inside the Charnobyl reactor; from nuclear proliferation to the chemical contamination that spreads around the globe, possibly to the cosmos.

HANNA PANIUTSICH | XYANA is a multimedia artist, designer and researcher. Their work is a collage of personal stories and histories, video footage, physical devices and biomatter. This is usually assembled into installations using different software and hardware. Their current research interests are nuclear technologies, chemical pollution and the effects of radioactivity on living systems. They are fascinated by exclusion zones, fungi, technological infrastructures and interfaces.”

Last picture courtesy of 🌳

03/09/2024

Last month (plus a bit!) hosted their most recent talk by Graeme McGowan, co-founder creative design studio Jamhot.

Jot is a series of talks on writing, run by studio members . Keep an eye on the Jot feed for future talks - free & open to all (even if you don’t think you’re a writer…)

So lovely to see the gorgeous sunlight flooding into the events space…

28/08/2024

Venue hire bookings are hotting up for the last few months of year, especially as people begin to plan for the festive season. If you are looking for a venue for your team away day, creative workshop, festive gathering, or autumnal pop-up, Many Studios might be the place - get in touch to check availability and pricing for our Events Space. We currently still have a couple of weekend spots remaining in late November/December.

“Big open creative space - acted like a blank canvas for us to do our own creating together as a team. Fab facilities, wonderful support on site, great location. Would recommend.”
- Team Strategy Day, March 2024.

A reminder that we offer discounts to non-profit and community groups, so are happy to discuss hire rates. Email us at [email protected].

22/08/2024

Studio member spotlight!

We are continuing to champion our valued and valuable studio members with Mandy Maria . Mandy is one of our longest standing studio holders, having spent many years in the building as part of the design and print duo Submarine.

Since shifting into her own studio at the beginning of the year, Mandy’s space has been alive with colour, experimentation and gorgeous, vivid interpretations of the rugged Scottish landscape, in her original soft pastel works. It’s a joy to encounter the otherworldly worlds which emerge in her studio.

Mandy creates original artworks and print editions, as well as working to commission. Find out more via her website mandymaria.com

Photos courtesy the artiste ✨

20/08/2024

Re-Posted from

To add to that, there is also no world as we know it without art. Not only do we need the government to understand artists’ role in arts & culture (fyi, their role is the whole thing) but the importance of arts and culture in ALL of our everyday lives. With years of standstill funding and cuts in many areas, the presumption is obviously that artists, collectives, organisations, etc, will keep on keeping on and creating against all odds, but people are tired emotionally and physically. Not just from these cuts but from the many interconnected policies and cuts that effect so much of the creative sector including ongoing genocide, a hostile environment that scraps the provision of free travel for people seeking asylum, police brutality, and fascism as a whole. Please write to your MSP and demand better.

16/08/2024

During Glasgow International Festival held a hybrid live event in the Events Space - Jesse Gerard Mpango was in conversation with fellow members Alma Simba & Darragh Amelia. They discussed their AV gallery and collective Ajabu Ajabu based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; as well as ways of collaborating and creating together.

Alma and Darragh’s exhibition at Market Gallery, A Point of Departure, was part of the GI programme 7th - 23rd June 2024.

Photos courtesy taken by ✨

13/08/2024

Studio Member Spotlight!

Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie is an artist from and living in Glasgow, Scotland, and they have been a studio member at Many since 2023.

“They experience making art and supporting the creative practices of others as a way to

breathe,
reconfigure,
play,
be (a)live,
shift through space
exist in multiple temporalities.

This is a metabolising research, process and making based creative practice informed by the politics of Black Radicalism. They make predominantly with clay, formalising ceramics using both handbuilding techniques and the pottery wheel. They also make using pen (lettering and drawing) and moving image.

Currently Zoë is working in response to the provocation of the BLACK CLYDE, an embodied interrogation of the relations between blackness and the River Clyde, utilising these relations as portals to multiple spatiotemporal registers.”

Find out more about Zoë’s practice and their work on their gorgeous website zoetumika.com ✨

06/08/2024

Part of the way Many Studios sustains itself as a creative organisation - as an independent, long term and reliable creative workspace provider - is through the hiring of our Events Space venue. Events which we host in our venue play an important part of the creative and community-focused ecosystem in the building, as well as allowing us to keep rents for studios as low as possible for as long as possible.

It is always important that those who hire the Events Space feel they are also benefiting from their time at Many Studios:

“The booking process was very easy and the building manager quickly responded to any queries I had. Everything went well with my event and I felt supported by the Duty Manager who was there on the day. The space itself was excellent with good facilities. I would definitely hire a space in Many Studios again!” - Artist Workshop event, March 2024

If you are looking for a venue for your workshop, meeting, creative or community event, get in touch to find out more about availability and pricing. We offer discounts to non-profits, creative / community groups so are always happy to discuss how we can support your event.

02/08/2024

Tonight ✨opens its doors! ✨

Join Tessa Mackenzie , one of the newest members of Many Studios, for the grand opening of glassworks studio The Glaziers Arms, 5–8pm.

We hear there will be rosé! ;)

Friday 2nd August 5–8pm
📍8 Kent Street, The Barras

Address

3 Ross Street, The Barras
Glasgow
G15AR

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441415739515

Website

http://www.manystudios.co.uk/

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