Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Joey Simons

A piece of paper with cuttings of images and text in the colours red, white, and black with information and locations relating to Glasgow.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Research and development materials
Courtesy of the artist
A white background containing a series cuttings of text and images with information about Glasgow
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Research and development materials
Courtesy of the artist
A photo of a room with a grey table with two TVs sitting on it, the left screen has three people standing outside and the right screen is black with white text reading 'Police Scotland HQ, Shawfield, Glasgow.' In the background of the image are white walls covered by a series of signs and pieces of paper.
Joey Simons, The Fearful Part of it was the Absence, 2021
Installation view, Collective Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and Collective Gallery. Photograph by Tom Nolan
An image of a double page section from a book. The pages contain a series of cut out images overlaid with cut out text.
Joey Simons & Kiera Mclean, Mining Seams and Drawing Wells, 2022
Courtesy of the artists
Three people stand outside in a carpark area filled with rubble and foliage. In the background there is a high rise flat.
Still from Joey Simons, The Fearful Part of it was the Absence, 2022
Courtesy of the artist

Joey Simons is a writer and artist from Glasgow. He is currently undertaking Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s In-Residence programme, investigating histories of land and housing in the north of the city alongside local communities in Springburn. Working across text, video, montage and archival research, previous projects for the Glasgow Women’s Library, CCA, Collective, SMHAF, and Platform have looked at subaltern histories of working-class poetry, incarceration, and urban class struggles. He recently co-edited Now’s the day, now’s the hour: poems for John Maclean, Tapsalteerie, 2023, and other recent writing commissions include Dowser no.9, 2024 with Mandy McIntosh and for Rosie’s Disobedient Press’s Teneu, 2024. He is also the coordinator of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive and leads Open Book’s prison reading programme at HMP Barlinnie and HMP Low Moss.

Projects

  • Programme
    Joey Simons
    Beyond the Forbidden Gate
    The Mitchell Library, Woodside Library, Possilpark Library and Springburn Library
    A series of overlaid pieces of paper containing pictures of locations in Glasgow.