Strange Field is a voluntary run, not-for-profit organisation. We provide opportunities for creative experimentation, learning, and development, with a focus on underrepresented and early-stage career artists, and our local community, at both French Street and The Pipe Factory in Glasgow's East End.
Between 2012 -2018, we ran a public programme at The Pipe Factory, that included residencies, exhibitions, events and publications.
Our organisation would not exist today were it not for the donated time of a voluntary creative workforce, in the hundrends, since 2012.
You can find the archive of some but not all events and exhibitions here.
We work with and champion early-stage and emerging artists, commission new projects and aim to reach the widest possible audience.
Our vision is for accessible creative platforms to be embedded across Glasgow, at the heart of communities as catalysts for increased creative development, education, experimentation, inclusion and wellbeing.
ABOUT
WHAT WE DO
Creative platforms and venues.
We provide platforms for creative experimentation at two locations in Glasgow's East End.
As a founding member of Friends of the Pipe Factory CIC, our collective ambition is to form a home that fuels the creativity that will generate pathways to pursue individual learning and development in the fields of art, architecture, and design, with young people and our communities at its core. Find out more about Friends of The Pipe Factory here.
At French Street, we offer affordable artists' studios and an expansive space for creative programming.
Our new facility provides a complementary platform to The Pipe Factory, creating further possibilities for experimentation, events, and exhibitions.
Programming
Our programme is facilitated by a voluntary rolling programming committee, in a collaborative community environment. Supported by the wider organisation.
Strange Field provides continued professional development opportunities for the committee, driven by the interestes of the current committee.
If you are interested in discussing programming opportunities with Strange Field please contact the programming committee here.
Open Community Art School
We are piloting a new alternative arts education programme, in the form of an open community art school.
We aim to reach as diverse a student body as possible and to overcome barriers that prevent people from taking part in creative activity.
Open to the public, participants will be invited to work in a studio environment with other artists, to develop their practice and build their own curriculum from a range workshops and events.
'Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field - it was always there - where to be lost is never to be wrong, but simply more.'
-Ocean Vuong
HOW TO FIND US
Car | Taxi | Drop Off
There is ample free parking directly outside the venue and surrounding streets. It takes only 5 minutes to drive from the city centre to the venue.
Accessible Parking
There is accessible parking directly outside the venue on French Street with ramp access for wheelchair users.
Train | Bus
The closest train station is Dalmarnock Train Station, which is only a 5 minute walk to the venue.
Glasgow Central Low Level trains to Dalmarnock depart every 10-15mins and directional signage will lead you straight to the venue.
First Bus Number 18 and Number 263 both depart from Ingram Street opposite GOMA to Dalmarnock's Bartholomew Street on Dalmarnock Road. Bus journey time is 14mins
Active | Foot | Bike
From Glasgow Green/Glasgow city centre it takes approx 20 mins to walk and only 6 mins to cycle, skate or scoot.
French Street is connected to several national cycle routes.