IT is a building which has reinvented itself on many occasions having previously been a home, a bank and a library.
Dating back to 1777 when it was commissioned as a mansion for tobacco merchant, William Cunninghame, the Royal Exchange Square site took on a whole new lease of life when it opened its doors as Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in 1996.
And it is a group of nine female artists whose work is taking centre stage as the first new exhibition since the gallery reopened on April 26 with the easing of covid restrictions.
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Falling under the remit of arms-length organisation, Glasgow Life, which runs cultural and sporting venues for the city council, GoMA is marking a celebratory year. However, it comes off the back of difficult time for the ALEO when its ability to generate income was severely hit during the pandemic, despite this Glasgow Life recently pledged to reopen around 90 venues in the city after the council agreed to underwrite a…
