refugee art

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Metzger’s Mobbile

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Metzger’s Mobbile

During the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), a VW Passat with a one-metre-square glass container attached to its roof drove around the west end of Glasgow. The car was originally manufactured by climate change activist and artist Gustav Metzger in 1970, which…

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Refuge and Renewal

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Refuge and Renewal

I was first made aware of Wales-based curator Peter Wakelin’s plans for this ambitious exhibition in early 2018. When, having heard about my own plans for the Insiders/Outsiders festival, he contacted me in the hope that we might collaborate. Since there seemed an evident…

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The Cosmo comes to life again

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The Cosmo comes to life again

“I loved The Cosmo, which I got to know in the mid-50s. This was the time when not much English could be heard in Finchley Road, and the bus conductor would call out “Jerusalem” or ‘Vienna”! The German accent in the streets was predominantly Austrian, as was the conversation in…