🌸 Submissions are open for our upcoming spring show 🌸
For our annual Spring Open Call, Six Foot Gallery invites artists to explore the ways hope and creativity take root in hostile environments. Inspired by queer histories of creating against all odds, and by the ways communities nurture possibility and make offerings for the future, we’re interested in works that bring warmth, colour, and a sense of renewal, that soften the spaces they inhabit, or that suggest endurance or growth: no matter how harsh the winter, the flowers will bloom again.
Following an HIV diagnosis in 1986, artist and activist Derek Jarman moved to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, an abandoned fisherman’s hut on a nuclear power site. Neighbours told him nothing would ever grow. Yet he planted his first rose, staked with a piece of driftwood, and spent his remaining years nurturing a flourishing garden, making offerings to the future. Jarman passed away in 1994 from AIDS-related complications, but Prospect Cottage endures as a sanctuary of creativity and inspiration. As the AIDS Memorial Quilt returns to Glasgow in September 2026, we are reflecting on themes of hope, ritual, sanctuary, and remembrance.
Whether through subject, colour, texture or mood, welcome your offerings and interpretations. Email us a photograph of the work you would like to submit, and tell us a bit about yourself and your practice. As always, submissions are open to all mediums and disciplines and to both established and emerging artists.
Submission deadline: Friday 20th March
Maximum works per artist: 3
Submission Fee: £10 per work
Drop off dates: 24th, 26th, and 27th March
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 21st April
Opening night: Tuesday 31st March 7-9pm
As always, we must be mindful of our environment in the Pentagon Centre and we cannot display any blatant profanity, graphic imagery, or nudity, so please re-imagine all depictions of such appropriately.
Alongside the exhibition, we will be running a free badge-making workshop inspired by the badge collection of queer activist Paud Hegarty. Come along to create a wearable slogan or symbol that reflects what change means to you.
Look out for Sextet, our in-house literary magazine, advertising an open call for written work for Issue III in the coming weeks.
Spring Open Call Moodboard
For more inspo, see our Offerings board on Pinterest.
