‘If only we had the space’ will feature a new commission by Jeni Allison, and works in textiles, ceramics and glass by Deirdre Nelson, Fionn Duffy and Jack Brindley, whose collective practices cross over art, design and craft.

These contemporary works will be contextualised in the space with Glasgow-based archival ephemera and film footage documenting housing activist movements and redevelopment schemes from Glasgow (archives included are from the 1960s to 1990s), and interviews with makers.

Through the craft of the four exhibiting makers and these significant moments in Glasgow’s housing history, this exhibition will explore ‘the through line of creative inhabitation, the changing role of homes as places of production as well as domesticity and negotiating the right to space’.

If only we had the space is delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curators programme, and Katy West, programme lead. It is supported by Platform, Inches Carr Craft Bursaries and Creative Scotland.

The exhibition will run from 17 to 26 October at Platform, Easterhouse, Glasgow.