Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Joey Simons

black and white graphic artwork
Rosie's Disobedient Press, Teneu, 2021
GI online, Glasgow International 2021
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

Joey Simons is a writer and artist from Glasgow. He is currently undertaking Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s In-Residence programme, investigating histories of land and housing in the north of the city alongside local communities in Springburn. Working across text, video, montage and archival research, previous projects for the Glasgow Women’s Library, CCA, Collective, SMHAF, and Platform have looked at subaltern histories of working-class poetry, incarceration, and urban class struggles. He recently co-edited Now’s the day, now’s the hour: poems for John Maclean, Tapsalteerie, 2023, and other recent writing commissions include Dowser no.9, 2024 with Mandy McIntosh and for Rosie’s Disobedient Press’s Teneu, 2024. He is also the coordinator of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive and leads Open Book’s prison reading programme at HMP Barlinnie and HMP Low Moss.

Projects

  • 2021
    Joey Simons
    Teneu
    GI Online
    black and white graphic artwork
  • Programme
    Joey Simons
    Beyond the Forbidden Gate
    The Mitchell Library, Woodside Library, Possilpark Library and Springburn Library
    A series of overlaid pieces of paper containing pictures of locations in Glasgow.