This year, before the fire at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh art school, Frieze travelled up to Glasgow to speak to some of the city’s most integral artists and curators about the nature of creativity in the city. From the community “come one, come all” vibes of the 1970s, to the work inspired by the flattening of the tenements to make way for high-rise blocks, these wise talking heads portray a tough city of freedom and spontaneity, underlined with a brutal sadness from times when things weren’t too great. They speak of the time Allen Ginsberg came to town, the wonder of the Glasgow School of Art, the gallery boom of the 1990s, and the appeal of the grand buildings in Glasgow with their sweeping staircases and enormous, trademark bay windows providing such beautiful white, Scottish light.
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