Creative Glasgow is a vibrant membership organisation dedicated to connecting, championing, and celebrating creative practitioners across Greater Glasgow.
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.
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Creative Glasgow is a company with charitable status, registered in Scotland with OSCR. Charity Number: SC053016.
Graham McLaren is a theatre maker and cultural leader. As well as leading theatre companies of different sizes, he has produced, directed and designed over seventy productions across four continents, ranging from totally improvised and devised shows to classical plays. Between 2011 and 2016 he was Associate Director for the newly established, National Theatre of Scotland. In 2021, he completed his tenure, successfully transforming the programming model and structure of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in his role as joint CEO of Ireland’s National Theatre.
Rosemary has been contributing to Glasgow’s creative and cultural sectors for over 15 years. She worked in Tramway running their participation programme and was for many years part of Glasgow Life’s Arts, Music and Cultural Venues service. More recently she’s been supporting a range of creative organisations as a freelance research and development consultant, leading research into craft education with Panel and Craft Scotland, developing evaluations for Glass Performance and Take Me Somewhere, managing SCAN’s CLiC project, and running development workshops for Greenspace Scotland and Uni of Glasgow’s School of Culture and Creative Arts, among others! Rosemary is also completing a PhD in Media and Cultural Policy at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research exploring the role of Scotland’s maker-led organisations.
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.
Lily joined GCAN in April 2024 as our new Youth Arts Coordinator. Lily graduated with a First Class degree in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2022. Her work centred around natural dyeing, textiles and metalwork. With a focus on community building and engagement with our natural surroundings, Lily has worked with multiple community groups, leading workshops, creating and commissioning artwork, before, during and since graduating.
We can’t wait to welcome Cat back from maternity leave in February.
Sat 24 – Sun 25 May, 10am – 5pm
The Gamer Club, 153 Bath Lane, Glasgow, G2 4RH
Creative Glasgow members are invited to a weekend long Open Doors event where people can seek help and discuss where free software may fit in their lives. Free software exists for writing, sound, drawing, painting, calling etc. Come along and find out how it could help your creative project.
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Got something to shout about? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us a line at info@creativeglasgow.co.uk
Creative Glasgow announces that Graham McLaren, Founding Director, will be leaving the organisation with effect from 16 May 2025.
Graham established Creative Glasgow in 2024, evolving the former Glasgow Connected Arts Network, and has provided leadership during a period of significant organisational transition and development.
We thank Graham for his contribution and wish him every success in his future endeavours.
Thursday 29 May 2025
Project Ability, Trongate 103
At the end of May we’re meeting in Project Ability, at Trongate 103, a centre for Arts and Creativity based in Glasgow’s Merchant City. We’ll be joined by Project Ability’s team who will give our members a tour of their current Exhibition from Greg Coultas and Struan Robb, young painters who work with their Create studios. We’ll also be treated to a tour of their artist studios and hear more about what creative activity goes on in the building and the surrounding area.
This event is free – all welcome – RSVP NOW
About Project Ability
Based in Glasgow’s award winning Trongate 103, Project Ability provide a welcoming arts community for people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health. They provide the space and expertise to allow them to express themselves, build confidence and achieve their potential, through our weekly workshops, exhibitions and outreach opportunities.
About Trongate 103
Trongate 103 is a centre for the arts and creativity based in Glasgow’s merchant city. Opened in 2009, it is home to a variety of organisations, including Project Ability, Glasgow Print Studios, Transmission, Project Rooms, Street Level Photoworks and Sharmanka. The whole of Trongate 103 stays open late every 1st Thursday of the month (6-8pm) for the public to come and view events / exhibitions / openings and learn about the art organisations within the building.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Bridgeton last month for our April Members Meet.
We’re so grateful to the incredible artists and organisations who opened their doors and shared their work with us:
Bruce Wallace of Studio 257 for giving us a behind-the-scenes look at an independent recording space that’s making a huge impact on Glasgow’s music scene.
Trudi Donaghue of Wild and Kind CIC for showing us how coworking can be a force for inclusion and empowerment for neurodivergent creatives and social entrepreneurs.
Alis le May of Clothworks Glasgow for sharing their approach to clothes making and mending as a tool for community connection and personal expression.
Karen Anderson and the team at Indepen-dance for welcoming us into their inclusive dance space and treating us to refreshments from their amazing volunteer-led Coffee Hut.
We loved seeing our Creative Glasgow members come together, share ideas, promote projects, and celebrate everything that makes our creative community so special.
If you missed this one – don’t worry! You can join us at Trongate 103 on Thursday 29th May for the next instalment of our monthly members meet!
Creative Glasgow is proud to support Tectonic Night Summit as a Community Partner during Glasgow Tech Week 2025!
Happening 29 May at BAaD, TecTonic is a one-night-only collision of Scotland’s creative and digital worlds, a high-energy gathering of makers, coders, artists, and innovators all under one roof.
Expect live performances, interactive showcases, 1-2-1 mentorship, and the chance to connect with a mix of creatives, tech heads, entrepreneurs, and community builders. All happening in the heart of the Barras Market.
Grab your ticket at https://tectonic.scot or head to @tectonicnightsummit
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