Our tenants have always been very creative people – we plan and like it that way.
Every week we also see folks visit the Lane with cameras, we’ve been featured in countless magazines and books, our colourful walls have been the backdrops to many fashion shoots, we’ve featured on coasters, t-shirts and we’ve even been in a Bollywood movie.
We thought it would be fun to have a good old fashioned Art Competition and we have some pretty cool prizes for the winners in each category. We are not in it to make money or to misuse the rights to your work – we genuinely just want to celebrate our magical little corner of Glasgow and hope some of you will want to join in. So be it a sketch, a painting, a diorama, a graphic poster, a photograph, a scarf or even an ela’boar’ate crocheted hat for Truffles our resident pig we just ask that it’s clearly been inspired by our wee Hidden Lane.
Let’s make some…
There are three categories:
Drawing and painting
Photography
3D and Digital Art/Craft
Winners and all Highly Commended entries will be exhibited (and available for sale if artist wishes) in the Hidden Lane Gallery in Finnieston in December 2024 with an Evening Prize Giving Event.
Vouchers for the Hidden Lane (gift shops, classes in yoga, pottery, stained glass, afternoon tea, jewellery, hairdressers – participating businesses listed below)
First prize £150 Hidden Lane voucher, Second prize £100 Hidden Lane voucher and Third Prize £50 Hidden Lane voucher in each category
Our Jury has been formed from our talented community of Lane creatives.
Alasdair Watson (Photographer)
Alasdair Watson is a professional photographer and artist, working with families, community groups, cultural organisations, and other creators. He uses his photography to connect people, tell their stories, and help create joyful memories.
His artistic projects are passionately rooted in the landscapes and languages of Glasgow and Scotland, and his work can regularly be seen featured in exhibitions across the country.
Alasdair has been based in the Hidden Lane since 2017.
Beth Knight (painter/comedian)
A relative newcomer to the Hidden Lane, Beth is a fine art oil painter whose work explores emotions and the physicality of the female body. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has performed her show blending comedy and art “Who Told You to Be Small” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A feminist artist, her comedy and painting tackle the misogyny around the standards of beauty that kept her hiding her body for decades by diving into the fear with art and laughter.
Kym Parker (Kilo Papa Studio)
Kym Parker is the artist, maker & surface pattern designer behind Kilo Papa Studio and has been based in the Hidden Lane since 2021. Kym hand draws all of her pieces with fine liner pens (some taking tens of hours to complete). She is greatly inspired by Scotland, its landscape, landmarks and culture alike.
She is currently in her topographical map era and describes her colourful maps as her children.
Joe Mulholland (Hidden Lane Imagineer)
From the striking triangles that make up the iron window in the Gallery to the quirkiness of the brick buildings and the colourful exteriors of the Lane, the inside of Art Collector and Photographer Joe’s head makes Charlie’s Chocolate Factory look like Shieldhall Recycling Centre. Joe knows the Lane better than anyone and is passionate about enabling small creative businesses to flourish. At 83 he is still actively developing and creating with absolutely no intention of stopping.
Participating Hidden Lane Businesses (where the winners can spend their vouchers)
Alasdair Watson Photography
Bluebelle Vintage
Bobbin & Fleck – (soft furnishing services only)
Bubblegum Kitschville
Cam Waves Hair (allergy test required for colour – must be booked direct and Jan 2025 onwards)
Chloe Charlett Designs – (shop only not commissions)
Curated and Gifted
Damn Hot Yoga
Ecosie
Finnieston Antiques Centre
Finnieston Yoga Shala
Genuine Quirk
Gordon’s Gallery
Hendry James Hair – (allergy test required for colour – must be booked direct and Jan 2025 onwards)
Hidden Lane Gallery
Hidden Lane Tearoom
In the Heather
Knowhere Streetwear
Last Night From Glasgow
M.A.R.S. Print Studio
Mystic Pixie (at Bluebelle Vintage)
Pipsylils
Rafas Tacos
Raised By Danger
Shona Jewellery
Simbas Sweets
No cash alternatives to voucher prizes. Vouchers valid until 30th June 2025.
1700 on Saturday 2nd November 2024
Entries may be submitted by post (at artist’s own risk) or in person at the Hidden Lane Gallery from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November between 1100 and 1700.
2024 Hidden Lane Art Competition Rules
1. The Competition
The Hidden Lane Art competition (the “Competition”) is organised by the Hidden Lane Gallery for artists based in Scotland.
Pictures will be reviewed by the above jury at the Hidden Lane Gallery and three winners selected for first, second and third prize in each of three categories – ‘Photography’, ‘Drawing & Painting’ and ‘3D and Digital Design’.
A selection of Highly Commended entries will also be made for exhibition (and for sale if wished) in the Hidden Lane Gallery throughout December 2024.
2. Territory and eligibility
The Competition is open to any artist based in Scotland. Each entry must be newly created for the competition and anyone entering work agrees to and accepts these Competition rules.
Only one entry per person is allowed.
Each entry must be accompanied by a completed and signed consent form available to download below or signable in person at the Gallery.
Entry to the Competition is free of charge. Artists are responsible for any costs incurred in creating and submitting original work (e.g. art materials, etc.).
3. Competition dates
The Competition will be judged during the first week of November, and those entries to be exhibited will be notified by Monday 15th November 2024. Prizes will be awarded on the evening of Friday 29th November at the Hidden Lane Gallery in Finnieston.
4. How to enter
All entries should be submitted either by post or in person to The Hidden Lane Gallery, 26A The Hidden Lane, 1103 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8ND – to arrive by 1700 on Saturday 2nd November 2024
Please download and complete the form HERE and attach to the rear of your work.
5. Prizes and selection of winning entries
First, second and third place entries will be selected by our panel of judges. All decisions will be final and binding. No correspondence will be entered into. No cash alternatives to vouchers are available.
6. Personal data
The Hidden Lane Gallery will collect and store the names and email addresses of all artists.
We will use this personal data for the following purposes:
- managing and administering the competition;
- crediting the winners and arranging delivery of their certificates; and
- marketing and publicity in accordance with section 7 below.
By participating in the Competition, artists consent to their personal data being processed by the Hidden Lane Gallery in accordance with, and for the purposes set out in this section.
7. Publicity and rights
The Hidden Lane Gallery/Hidden Lane reserves the right to publish the names and pictures of the winners on our websites, Facebook pages, Instagram pages, press releases and in other promotional and marketing material. In addition, the Hidden Lane Gallery/Hidden Lane may write and publish articles about the winners’ enjoyment of the Competition. By entering the Competition, each participant agrees to the use of their name and their picture and agrees to co-operate with any such publicity or marketing if they win the Competition.
Artists will retain copyright in the entry material that they submit to the Hidden Lane Gallery/Hidden Lane. By entering the Competition each artist does grant the Hidden Lane, free of charge, permission to use the entry material (including, without limitation, modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in any media worldwide for purposes connected with the Competition. Artists who win the Competition grant the Hidden Lane further permission to publish and exhibit their entry material (including, without limitation, modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in print and any media worldwide. Each artist confirms that the entry material is their original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any laws, that they have the right to give the Hidden Lane permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that all necessary consents for the submission of the entry material have been obtained.
8. General
The Hidden Lane may disqualify or refuse to accept the entry of any artist which does not meet the eligibility criteria in section 2 or does not otherwise comply with these Competition Rules.
These Competition Rules shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Scotland and the courts of Scotland shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes or claims (including, without limitation, non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with the Competition.
9. Acceptance of Competition Rules
By participating in this Competition, participants are deemed to have accepted these Competition Rules.