About us

Creative Glasgow is a vibrant membership organisation dedicated to connecting, championing, and celebrating creative practitioners across Greater Glasgow.

We’re
here to:

Foster a strong and inclusive community for creatives across all disciplines in the city and surrounding areas.
Facilitate new partnerships, collaborations, and opportunities for advocacy.
Offer training, networking, knowledge exchange, and career support to inspire and empower creative practitioners.
Support our members in shaping Glasgow’s image through their vibrant creative and cultural activity.
Ensure our members have access to the resources and skills they need to thrive.

Whether you’re running a creative business, freelancing with years of experience, or just starting out in your career, Creative Glasgow welcomes all creative practitioners living and working in Greater Glasgow. Our diverse membership includes designers, artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, and other creatives who contribute to the city’s vibrant cultural and creative ecosystem.

At Creative Glasgow, we’re dedicated to ensuring that every practitioner, regardless of discipline, background, or stage in their career, has a platform to flourish. For established professionals, we offer opportunities to expand networks, collaborate on transformative projects, and influence the city’s creative direction. For emerging talents, we provide access to essential resources, training, and mentorship to help you grow and thrive.

By becoming part of our community, you’re joining a collective effort to shape Greater Glasgow into a hub of innovation, culture, and creative excellence for our city and our citizens.

Our Guiding Principles

Creative Glasgow’s work is driven by a set of guiding principles that underpin our operations, programmes, and membership offer:

We are committed to collaboration, working in partnership with Greater Glasgow’s creative businesses, cultural organisations and institutions to deliver our work.
We champion the principles of Fair Work, creating an inclusive working environment and ensuring all programme contributors are fairly remunerated.
Our work is rooted in social justice, striving to build a more equal, inclusive, and representative creative and cultural sector in Greater Glasgow.
We integrate environmental sustainability into every aspect of our work, contributing to a greener creative and cultural sector.

Learn more about our commitments to:

Creative Glasgow is a company with charitable status, registered in Scotland with OSCR. Charity Number: SC053016.

Meet Creative Glasgow’s Team

Rosemary James-Beith

Executive Director

Rosemary (She/Her) has been contributing to Glasgow and Scotland’s creative and cultural sectors for over 15 years with organisations in both employed and freelance capacities including Glasgow Life, SCAN, Craft Scotland, Panel and University of Glasgow. She joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024, supporting the organisation to develop and deliver an ambitious inaugural programme – cementing its role and recognition in the city as a force for sector support and development.

In January 2026 Rosemary transitioned to Executive Director, overseeing the organisation’s strategy, partnerships, and creative programmes.

Tie Macbeth

Finance and Admin Manager

Tie joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024 as our Administrator, bringing over 15 years of experience in arts administration. She’s worked in a variety of roles across operations, finance, sustainability, creative learning, production, and events, with well-known Glasgow institutions like CCA (2014-2024), King’s Theatre & Theatre Royal (2008-2014), and Glasgow Comic Con (2010-2024).

Passionate about both the creative and practical sides of the arts, Tie is excited to help support and connect Glasgow’s vibrant creative community.

Jessie McGoff

Digital Comms Specialist

Jessie joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024, overseeing the digital communications strategy and social campaigns.

Jessie is a communications and marketing specialist with a background in contemporary art and cultural programming. In their role as Communications Manager at CCA Glasgow, they led strategic communications, developed inclusive marketing practices and worked with a range of cultural organisations in the city. They currently also work with performance art festival Take Me Somewhere and Scotland’s silent film festival, HippFest.

Our Board

Jane Gordon

Acting Chair

Malini Chakrabarty

Greer Pester

Darshan Kundi

Rachel Aisling Smith

Tarka Heath

The Latest

Call for Contributors: Disobedient Magazine

Disobedient Magazine is inviting members of Creative Glasgow to contribute new work to its online platform and upcoming print issue.

Founded in Glasgow in 2019, Disobedient is a digital and print magazine exploring resistance through art. The magazine is particularly interested in themes of resistance, including women’s rights, anti-racism, LGBTQ+ liberation, and works engaging with current social and political events.

Submissions are welcomed from artists, writers and creators of all backgrounds and levels of experience.

Circular Glasgow: May Circular Mixer

Material Source Studio
29 May 2026, 2:30 – 5:00pm
£ FREE

Circular Glasgow would like to invite Creative Glasgow members to its May Circular Mixer – an opportunity to exchange ideas, share resources and explore how circular approaches can drive business growth while supporting the city’s climate ambitions.

Hosted at Material Source Studio in partnership with Harley Haddow, this interactive session brings together a diverse network of collaborators working towards a more sustainable Glasgow.

The event features guest speaker Selina Donald, Sustainability and Accessibility Lead for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, who will share insights from leading ‘Delivering a Greener Games’—alongside experience spanning global projects including London 2012, COP and beyond.

Expect expert perspectives, meaningful connections and practical conversations designed to turn ideas into action.

Creatives of Colour Festival

7–10 May 2026

Join the Creatives of Colour Festival, a four-day celebration of the creative contributions of people of colour across Glasgow.

Taking place across venues including Queen Margaret Union (QMU), Glad Cafe, Civic House, Woodlands Community Trust, and Gathering Ground, the festival centres storytelling, joy, resilience and the diversity of BIPOC voices through performances, screenings and workshops.

Callout: SMHAF 2026 Artist Commissions

£1,000 Available

The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF) has opened applications for its 2026 Artist Commissions.

They’re inviting proposals from all artforms, with a simple application: two short paragraphs outlining your idea, a brief bio, contact details and examples of previous work.

Each commission is worth £1,000 and deadlines are flexible to support access needs.

A great opportunity to develop new work exploring creativity and mental health.

Understanding Meanwhile Spaces in Scotland

Thursday 30 April, Strangefield, G40 4EH
Workshop: 3 – 5pm / Panel Talk: 6 – 7pm

How do temporary (“meanwhile”) spaces shape creative practice in Scotland? A new research project from Newcastle University, commissioned by Creative Scotland, is exploring exactly that – and they want to hear from you.

Artists, creatives, and workspace providers are invited to share experiences, challenges and insights on access, affordability and the realities of short-term space use.

Join the conversation and help shape the future of creative workspaces. The Glasgow workshop will take place this Thursday at Strangefield.

Call Out: Heritage Artists in Communities

We are excited to share an invite for submissions for the next round of Heritage Artist in Communities commissions for 2026-27.

Glasgow-based artists are invited to apply for one of two, year-long themed residencies which empower communities to participate in creative activity and community research to document and explore the area’s intangible heritage. This research will feed into a Heritage Interpretation Framework for the area, meaning artists and communities will have the opportunity to see their research manifested in public space.

Artists are invited to respond to one of two themes:

Charing Cross & the creation of the M8
Pubs, bars and nightlife

Individual artists, artist collectives, or groups of artists are welcome to apply.

Deadline for applications: Monday 20^th April, 12.00pm

You can find more information about this opportunity here.

Creative Glasgow Privacy Notice

Last Updated November 2024

This Privacy Notice for Creative Glasgow (‘we’, ‘us, or ‘our’), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (‘process’) your personal information when you use our services (‘Services’), including when you:

Visit our website at http://www.creativeglasgow.co.uk, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
Use Creative Glasgow, a membership organisation for the creative and cultural sectors in Greater Glasgow. Creative Glasgow is a Limited Company with Charitable Status, registered in Scotland with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) (SC053016).
Engage with us in other related ways, including our marketing activities and events

Questions or concerns?

Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed in keeping with all relevant legal requirements, including the UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our services. If you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk

What personal information do we process?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. This may include the following: names, email addresses, job titles, usernames, passwords, contact preferences, contact information, date of birth, and authentication data.

When you visit, use, or navigate our services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services we provide, the choices you make, and the features you use. You must notify us of any changes to personal information.

We do not process sensitive personal information (for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs) through this website. We also do not collect any information about you from third parties.

Some information – such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you use our services. Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

How do we process your information?

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. In our case this includes:

Consent: we may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a contract: We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing services to you.

Creative Glasgow are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of this Privacy Notice. We determine the means and/or purposes of the data processing we perform.

We may, from time to time, share information in specific situations with third parties. This includes vendors, consultants and third-party service providers who perform services for us on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Contracts will be in place to safeguard your personal information. We may also use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information, this includes allowing third parties to access this data for the purposes of online analytics (such as Google Analytics).

How do we keep your information safe?

We only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required by law (for example for accounting, reporting or other legal requirements). We have adequate organisational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. If this occurs we have a legal obligation to inform the Information Commissioner https://ico.org.uk/

What are your rights?

You have the right, under the UK GDPR, to (1) request access and obtain a copy of your personal data; (2) to request rectification or erasure; (3) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (4) request data portability to another service; and (5) not to be subjected to automated decision-making.

How to contact us?

For any questions relating to our storage or processing of your personal data please contact us at admin@creativeglasgow.co.uk

Or write to us at

Creative Glasgow
Civic House
24 Civic Street
Glasgow
G4 9RH