Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Beyond the Forbidden Gate

Printed pink and white fabric featuring text hangs across a wooden panelled room.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Installation view, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International and S.I.S.C.O. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eoin Carey
A selection of documents and print in a display cabinet.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Installation view, The Mitchell Library. Presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International and S.I.S.C.O. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eoin Carey
A digital screen surrounded by chairs in a semi circle. Leaning against the wall is a large piece of MDF with images and writing on it.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Installation view, The Mitchell Library. Presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International and S.I.S.C.O. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eoin Carey
A large piece of MDF with images and writing on it, against bookcases.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Installation view, The Mitchell Library. Presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International and S.I.S.C.O. Part of Glasgow International 2024
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eoin Carey
A large piece of MDF with images and writing on it, against bookcases.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023, Installation view.
Presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International and S.I.S.C.O. Part of Glasgow International 2024.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Eoin Carey
A piece of paper with cuttings of images and text in the colours red, white, and black with information and locations relating to Glasgow.
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Research and development materials
Courtesy of the artist
A white background containing a series cuttings of text and images with information about Glasgow
Joey Simons, Beyond the Forbidden Gate, 2023
Research and development materials
Courtesy of the artist
A photo of a room with a grey table with two TVs sitting on it, the left screen has three people standing outside and the right screen is black with white text reading 'Police Scotland HQ, Shawfield, Glasgow.' In the background of the image are white walls covered by a series of signs and pieces of paper.
Joey Simons, The Fearful Part of it was the Absence, 2021
Installation view, Collective Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and Collective Gallery. Photograph by Tom Nolan
An image of a double page section from a book. The pages contain a series of cut out images overlaid with cut out text.
Joey Simons & Kiera Mclean, Mining Seams and Drawing Wells, 2022
Courtesy of the artists
Three people stand outside in a carpark area filled with rubble and foliage. In the background there is a high rise flat.
Still from Joey Simons, The Fearful Part of it was the Absence, 2022
Courtesy of the artist