The Steven Campbell Trust are delighted to announce that Ellis Bairstow – our Hunt medal winner for 2025 – has set up an exciting new gallery, project space, and studio in Glasgow for emerging artists, located at B/5 12 Washington Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom G3 8PT.
“Introducing Shift, an art platform for early career creatives and artists to make, develop, and exhibit.
Shift provides exhibition opportunities and studio residencies for artists at the early stages of their careers, supporting them as they push their practice forward.
We’ve created a space that artists can fully transform to suit their vision — a venue that adapts to them, rather than limiting what they can create.
By offering accessible, flexible exhibition space and hands-on support from a team to help you achieve your goals.
Shift aims to remove the barriers that often hold emerging artists back: restrictive venues, inconsistent opportunities, and a lack of dedicated platforms.
Shift is our next step toward making a lasting impact on Glasgow’s contemporary art scene and the voices shaping its future, building a future where artists can develop their practice and careers here in Glasgow.
Shift Gallery opens its program this Friday 21st November at 7pm-9pm with an exhibition by Fin Blue.”
“Fin’s practice moves between digital sources, physical wandering, and the translation of experience into image. Beginning with ideas and locations gathered online, Fin shifts into a slower, more tactile process of walking and composing, considering how what he sees might be flattened, distilled, or reimagined.
In this body of work, he replaces the camera with what he calls “cable management,” drawing from the linear language of maps, diagrams, and graphs. These structures, designed to clarify information become visual material in their own right. By placing the recognisable tangle of cables in dialogue with the ordered logic of these diagrams, Fin invites viewers to consider how data becomes image, and how the systems surrounding us can be represented within the gallery space.
Follow along @shiftgalleryglasgow for more exciting updates!”
The Steven Campbell Trust were honoured to gain a sneak preview of Cable Management today – and we very much enjoyed meeting Fin as he installed his work in this brilliant new Glasgow exhibition venue.
We at the Steven Campbell Trust wish Fin, Ellis, and everyone else involved in Shift the best of luck with their exciting new venture.
The Steven Campbell Trust 