February 10th – 24th 2026
Olivier Julien | Jessica Paterson | Noa Amson & Rory Spencer (VC2RL) | Ashley Stefano | Leanna Tanner | Zaym Zarif | Noa Ferder | Lydia Smith | Sue Steele | Jennifer McKenzie | Jessie Mclnroy | Donna O’Hanlon | Sara Bee | Daria Andrieieva | Anastazia Grace Hart | Gabrielle Vendette | Fergus Devlin
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As a interdisciplinary artist, I am constantly looking for intersections between performance art and visual art. When I make a performance, I want to be able to pause it – for it to tell a story in its stillness, not only in its action. When I make a visual artwork, whether a photograph, a drawing, or a sculpture, I aspire for it to activate my mind and imagination to see the work unfolding over time.
STAGED has been my invitation to other artists to join me in this exploration. The participating artists each examine how a still image can hold the tension of a performed moment, and carry liveness through composition, gesture, and construction. We create a space where photography is a site of performance, where the still is activated.
We invite visitors to experience photographs that sit somewhere between rehearsal and outcome: the making of the image exists within the captured still, allowing the still to continue to perform in the act of being seen.
– Noa Ferder, curator
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Participating Artists
Read interviews with the artists over on our blog.
Olivier Julien
Olivier Julien’s artistic practice is centred around and works heavily with the concept of salvage punk. Working extensively with found objects, poor images and cheap sounds that materialise through scouring the internet, books and the streets, he looks to transform his hoard through sound collage, performance, photography and video art. His works centre around themes of masculinity, access and class, technology, right wing politics, violence and celebrity. Art which can be nothing other than of the television, internet and smartphone age.
Jessica Paterson
Jessica is a twenty year old film photographer based in Glasgow, specialising in portraiture, street photography, and travel photography. Her work is driven by an interest in documenting people, capturing individuals in both posed and natural moments that reflect their character and environment. In 2024, Jessica transitioned from digital photography to film photography in 2024 after purchasing a Canon AE-1, her first film camera. Immediately, she was captivated by the slower, intentional nature of film photography amidst a fast-paced world. Ever since, film has become key to her self-expression and creative practice. Alongside her Applied Psychology degree, Jessica studied Darkroom Photography in college, where she was introduced to film developing and studio photography. She particularly enjoyed working in the studio using unconventional props and creative lighting to create unique portraits. Now, Jessica shares her photography journey and her evolving body of work through social media.
Noa Amson & Rory Spencer (VC2RL)
VC2RL is a creative collaboration between Noa Amson and Rory Spencer. Publishing monthly on the last day of each month, the duo’s works have so far included moving image, audio-radio, visual communication, performance, and the written word. The works are both an exploration and an attempt at capturing real life, or something very close to it.
Ashley Stefano
Ashley is an emerging, queer, South African artist, based in Glasgow. Their practice
spans performance, video, sound, installation, production and curatorial work. Ashley is
interested in the body language of tension and catharsis, and evokes the musicality and serious playfulness of gesture to consider its functions as method of self-soothing and symbolic activation. Through fragmented and speculative narratives, she initiates opportunities for ceremonial and meditative contemplation of object as site for emotions, dreams, connection, and memory.
Oli Turner, the photographer of Ashley’s work, is a visual artist from Yorkshire, currently based in Glasgow. Her practice is rooted in landscape, place and memory, shaped by journeys into remote and rural environments. Working with photography and sculpture, she explores continuities between past and present, where ecology, ritual sites and human experience intersect, offering spaces for reflection, belonging and reconnection.
Leanna Tanner
Leanna is a photographer working with staged photography as a form of visual storytelling. Rather than capturing spontaneous moments, she constructs deliberate scenes using performance, costume, props, and carefully chosen locations. The image becomes a space where emotion is acted out, held, and made visible. Her work often draws from personal experiences of vulnerability, mental health, and emotional fatigue. By placing the body into both public and private environments, she explores how internal struggles are performed, hidden, dismissed, or misunderstood. These staged interventions create moments of tension between strength and fragility, control and exposure, and humour and discomfort. She is interested in the quiet gestures and symbolic actions that speak when words fail. Objects, costume and setting are used not for decoration, but as tools to communicate feeling. Through this process, she uses photography as a way to process experience, reclaim visibility, and invite viewers to pause, reflect, and sit with emotional complexity.
Zaym Zarif
Zaym was born in 1997 in Malaysia, and is a visual artist and photographer based in Glasgow. Working primarily with self-portraiture, their practice explores identity, vulnerability, memory, and the fluid boundaries between truth and performance. Through staged portraits, role-play, and collaborative projects, Zaym investigates the intimate complexities of human relationships while challenging conventions of representation. They studied Fine Art Photography in Malaysia before completing a Master’s in Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art, where they specialized in self-portraiture. Their work has been exhibited internationally in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Paris, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, with highlights including SHALS x Benefit Cosmetics (Singapore, 2021), IESA Gallery (Paris, 2021), Multilingual Matters (Glasgow, 2025), and Drag Me Up at Salt Space Gallery, Glasgow (2025) and often draws upon personal history, cultural heritage, and the act of becoming both subject and storyteller. By turning the lens inward, Zaym creates spaces of empathy and dialogue, inviting audiences to reflect on their own identities and perceptions.
Lydia Smith
Authentic, edgy, and emotive, Lydia is a passionate portrait photographer based in Dundee. Focused on making her clients feel at ease, Lydia knows that the best portraits come from genuine connection, allowing her to reveal the true character of each individual she photographs. Lydia is not just a camera operator, she is a lighting enthusiast, a creative director, and a set designer. Her personal work is known to feature themes considering visibility, identity, beauty, and the female gaze. A keen houseplant fanatic, she loves to use botanical elements in her creative work, often from her personal collection of over 200 tropical plants. Lydia’s photography has been on display in prestigious venues including V&A Dundee and the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, as well as many publications and billboards. Lydia’s clients include UNESCO, Architecture and Design Scotland, The National Museum of Scotland and Fife Contemporary
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Fergus Devlin
Fergus was raised near Duns, in the Scottish Borders, and is now based in Edinburgh. His work as a photographer regularly takes him between the Lothians, the Borders and Northumberland, and he enjoys drawing inspiration from both the varied landscapes of Scotland and more arid climates further afield – Morocco, the Balearic Islands, and Spain. An avid hiker and outdoorsman, Fergus is drawn to the Scottish Borders because of the diversity of its landscapes. The region offers an ever changing interplay of light, texture, and atmosphere, which remain a constant source of inspiration throughout his work. His images often explore the relationship between people and their environment, highlighting how subjects interact with and are shaped by the spaces around them. In doing so, he captures a sense of intimacy and presence, allowing the spirit of the land to emerge alongside the stories of those who inhabit it.
Jessie McInroy
Jessie McInroy is a visual artist working primarily with analogue photography to examine interior, domestic spaces in close detail. Her practice draws on the intimacy between these environments and the people who inhabit them, asking what habits go unnoticed and what traces we leave behind – whether silly, neurotic, beautiful, or simply strange. Through subtle staging, exaggeration, and distortion of familiar surroundings, McInroy reflects relationships between people and the spaces they return to each day, exploring the quiet interplay between domestic space, personal identity, and the inner mind.
Anastazia Grace Hart
Anastazia’s photographic practice is a narrative exploration of the human experience, where she collaborates with subjects to make visible the unseen stories within their lives. As an artist she seeks to portray not just likeness, but the emotional truths and the nuanced layers of their personality that reveal their individual journeys. Through a combination of documentary and staged techniques, she aims to create compelling images that serve as visual parables, inviting the viewer to reflect on themes of identity, memory and the intricate tapestry of everyday life.
Daria Andrieieva
Daria is an amateur photographer from Ukraine, who likes exploring where her imagination takes her.
Sue Steele
Sue Steele’s work has changed dramatically over the years. From her beginnings at GSA, rooted in a traditional painting practice, to working in a myriad of constantly evolving mediums, Sue has established herself as a mainstay of the Glaswegian art scene. In her previous solo exhibition at Six Foot, Start Where You Are (2025), Sue presented a series of portraits of her colleagues from Greencity Whole Foods in Dennistoun alongside a collection of mixed-media self-portraits, textiles, masks, and linocuts, demonstrating her dynamic and avant-garde style. We’re delighted to welcome her back to Six Foot Gallery.
Jennifer McKenzie
Jennifer McKenzie is a Scottish photographer whose practice explores identity, vulnerability, and emotional containment through staged portraiture and symbolic imagery. Working primarily with constructed scenes and controlled lighting, her work often uses scale, props, and metaphor to visualise internal states that are difficult to articulate verbally. Themes of protection, confinement, and self-observation recur throughout her imagery, reflecting an interest in how individuals negotiate personal identity within social and psychological boundaries. Drawing on influences from fine art photography and narrative storytelling, McKenzie combines technical precision with conceptual intent, allowing carefully staged elements to carry emotional weight. Her work balances intimacy with distance, inviting viewers to reflect on their own experiences of control, safety, and self-reflection. Alongside her creative practice, she is completing a BA (Hons) in Photography, where her work continues to evolve through research- led experimentation and exhibition-focused presentation.
Donna O’Hanlon
Donna’s photographic practice spans various genres, but her real passion lies in fashion photography. Although she doesn’t identify as a feminist, Donna uses the fashion genre as a platform to address female issues by drawing attention to pose, clothing and context. Through her abstract compositions, she endeavours to educate viewers on the experiences that women face on a daily basis. Image making in the fashion genre also allows Donna to realise ideas that are inspired by her own lived experience as a woman. On top of all this, Donna uses the creative process as a form of escapism to help with her mental health issues – from forming ideas, to the production process, through to shooting and editing. Donna obtained her BA in Photography from City of Glasgow College, and resides in Edinburgh.
Sara Bee
After initially studying in Dundee in 2017, Sara officially emigrated to Scotland in 2020, to her beloved Glasgow. From the moment she arrived, Sara fell in love with everything Scotland had to offer but, most notably, the commitment the general population has to encouraging participation in the arts. As a queer immigrant, Sara did not anticipate that she would have the space or capacity to contribute to this creative community but she has continually been proven wrong, being welcomed into many artistic spaces such as this. Sara began using 35mm film photography in 2023 and has loved witnessing the gorgeous, pulsing life in Glasgow through the viewfinder ever since.
Gabrielle Vendette
Gabrielle Vendette is a photographer and mixed-media artist from Montreal currently based out of Paris, France. Inspired by all iterations of queer life around her, including her own as a queer woman, Gabrielle seeks to reflect back this vision of the world through her art and photography, creating worlds where the
unexpected can thrive. She is inspired by seeming contradictions and the multitude of ways that identity desires to be expressed. Gabrielle hopes she can challenge conventional ideas of gender, queerness, and self-expression through photography that is dynamic and invites you into parts unknown.