Black Waters: Inference To The Veil: Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

14 March - 25 April 2026

Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art

167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RG

Black Waters: Inference To The Veil is the culmination of the inaugural Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art. Developed by Black Waters — a collaborative curatorial research project led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika, Zoë Guthrie and Żżo / Zoë Charlery — the exhibition explores ‘inference’ as both a curatorial method and a critical disruption.

Grounded in Black feminist methodologies and scholarship, the exhibition considers abstraction, opacity and concealment as sites of both historical erasure and creative resistance. The veil operates here as a metaphor for obscured histories and institutional silences, while also signifying material memory and inheritance.

On loan: 

  • Barbara Walker MBE, RA (b. 1964), Vanishing Point 13 (Veronese), 2020

  • Lubiana Himid CBE, RA (b. 1954), A Rake’s Progress: Hole in Her Stocking (4), 2022

  • Michael Armitage (b. 1984), Dream and Refuge, 2020

  • Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA (b. 1962), Mayflower, All Flowers, 2020

For more information please visit: Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship | The Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions Department

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