About this Event
You are warmly invited to join us for the preview of our inaugural exhibition of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship Black Waters: Inference to The Veil, which opens in the Reid Gallery at 5pm on Friday 13th March 2026.
Black Waters: Inference to The Veil marks the culmination of the inaugural Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art 2025 and features works from Jerwood Collection and Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections. The first recipient of the Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at The Glasgow School of Art is ‘Black Waters’, a collaborative, curatorial research project led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery.
Inference to The Veil announces Black Waters’ debut exhibition. Drawing on Black feminist methodologies and Black scholarship, the exhibition convenes archival and collection works with invited independent artists in a shared curatorial field. This gesture situates Glasgow-based practices within a broader UK and African diasporic constellation.
The exhibition seeks to frame selected works from Jerwood Collection and GSA Archives & Collections into view with Black spatial practices, citational performance and material thinking. Works from both collections are shown alongside invited artists based in Glasgow and London. Jerwood Collection works feature Barbara Walker, Lubaina Himid CBE, RA, Michael Armitage and Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, with GSA Archive & Collections works featuring Kialy Tihngang, Emmanuel Addo-Osafo, Hock Aun Teh and Anna Tewungwa. Black Waters have also invited Glasgow-based artists Grace Browne, Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, Camara Taylor and Adebusola King Ramsay, alongside London-based artist Rebecca Bellantoni, to present work in the exhibition.
The exhibition stages Glasgow as the centre from which to perceive the scale and afterlives of the global colonial project, and the precise, opaque, continuously emergent ways Black life subsists and composes. The exhibition has been developed, particularly in relation to questions of perspective, visual authority, and the historical and contemporary processes through which Black life is obscured. These concerns directly informed the exhibition title, ‘Inference to The Veil’, which reflects the project’s focus on abstraction, opacity, and concealment as both tools of oppressive social design and as counter-strategies for resistance and refusal. For Black curatorial practice, inference becomes a means of recollection and assemblage; studying alongside fragments, distortions and omissions as a methodology for pronouncing Black life and testimony.
This exhibition and Curatorial Fellowship are supported by Jerwood Foundation with loans from Jerwood Collection. The Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship seeks to foster diverse voices by offering emerging curators in Scotland their first supported exhibition in an institutional setting. The Fellowship offers a period of research and access to Jerwood Collection and a production budget to develop and stage a public exhibition with an event at The Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.
Image: Inference to The Veil, image courtesy of Black Waters (Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery), 2026
Access Information
The exhibition is on show in the Reid Gallery until 25th April 2026.
The gallery is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 4.30pm, and closed on Sundays.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reid Gallery, The Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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