MLitt Fine Art Practice

Stow Building, 56 students

The Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice Programme at The Glasgow School of Art consists of the following combined disciplinary pathways: Painting, Drawing and Print Media, Photography and the Moving Image and Sculpture and Performance. The programme is studio-based and centred on practice and is intended to provide opportunities for students to pursue in-depth subject-specific study in fine art practice at postgraduate level. Undertaken over 12 months, the Programme encourages an intensive exploration of research and development of ideas from the outset, with the focus on the highest standards of practice and personal development as artists.

The students on the Programme work within the specialisms and across them, often identifying collaborative opportunities to engage with practice across the pathways and across programmes. The Programme has a diverse mix of both national and international students, attracting applicants from all over the world. This dynamic encourages the students to build a dialogue with their peers and identify meaningful connections, many of which lead to further collaborations beyond graduation from the School.

Liminal Space

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from What The Room Remembers – 2

45 x 30 cm Watercolor on paper, 2025

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30 x 30 cm Watercolor on paper, 2025

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from Liminal Space

from After Image

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from After Image

from A glutton for punishment

from A glutton for punishment

from UNTITLED 02-04 & UPRIVER

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from UNTITLED 02-04 & UPRIVER

from UNTITLED 02-04 & UPRIVER

from UNTITLED 02-04 & UPRIVER

Oil Painting by Alan Brash, Titled Obfuscation II

from A Reflection of a Queer Life

Oil Painting by Alan Brash, Titled Defiance, 180x140cm

from A Reflection of a Queer Life

Oil Painting by Alan Brash, Titled Indelible, 35 x 28 cm

from A Reflection of a Queer Life

Oil Painting by Alan Brash, titled Disclosure, 180 x 140 cm.

from A Reflection of a Queer Life

Diptych, Oil painting by Alan Brash, titled Male in Shadow, 200 x 100 cm

from A Reflection of a Queer Life

My creative practice stems from an exploration of the parallels between natural camouflage and the construction of identity in human society. Leaf insects merge with their surroundings through their appearance in order to survive and remain unseen. Similarly, humans continuously modify their outward image—through clothing, objects, and external symbols—to adapt to different social situations and to be accepted within certain groups. In my view, camouflage is not merely about concealment, but also a deliberate strategy and a form of language. In my work, I combine leaf insects with human forms, adding daily objects that carry social meaning—assigning these mimetic beings new identities and roles. These figures exist between nature and culture, between authenticity and performance, forming visual allegories within the paintings. They pose questions: Who are we, really? Are we presenting the self, or a mask shaped by our environment? My work seeks a subtle tension between hiding and expressing, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between the individual and the surrounding world.

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from Beneath the Shell

from Beneath the Shell

from Miraculous Hours

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from Miraculous Hours

from Blue Reverie

from And Yet

from Hands-On

from Blue Reverie

from Traces of an Unseen Dialogue

from From September to September

from Geometric symphony

from Pseudo-artistic series

from Pseudo-artistic series

from JUMP!JUMP!JUMP!

from Gestures of Disruption

from Gestures of Disruption

from Gestures of Disruption

from Gestures of Disruption

from Gestures of Disruption

from Various Video Works

from My Body | My Land Photographs

from My Body | My Land Installation

from My Body | My Land Installation

from My Body | My Land Photographs

from I, the Voyage-Craft

from I, the Voyage-Craft

from The Tour Guide

from I, the Voyage-Craft

from I, the Voyage-Craft

from el mar de plástico

from el mar de plástico

from el mar de plástico

from el mar de plástico

from el mar de plástico

from ‘Parts of Mine’ (2025)

from ‘Surroundings’ (2025)

from ‘In No Particular Order’ (2025)

from ‘Parts of Mine’ (2025)

from What in the World?

from Blossom Bowl

from Cyborgs

from What in the World?

from What in the World?

from Under a Veiled Sky

from Under a Veiled Sky

from Under a Veiled Sky

from Under a Veiled Sky

from Under a Veiled Sky

from Carino Padrino

from Kama Jing’s Degree Show

from Kama Jing’s Degree Show

from Starry Eye Glasses 1.0

from Pretty Little Rushmore

from Identity, Spatial Emotion

from Identity, Spatial Emotion

from Identity, Spatial Emotion

from Identity, Spatial Emotion

from Identity, Spatial Emotion

from Fragments II

from Fragments I

from Fragments II

from St Vincent Lane

from Paintings

from the blinking at the start of the day

from the blinking at the start of the day

from water bugs

from the blinking at the start of the day

from water bugs

embroidery, terracota, purple thread, beige, mexican folklore

from Embroidered canvas

from Textile Work ( brutalism and texture)

from Textile Work ( brutalism and texture)

from Textile Work ( brutalism and texture)

from Grid Series

from Anxiety

from Silent anger

from Silent anger

from Forged Horn

from Anxiety

from Dark Bloom

from The Distant Abyss

from The Root of Fear

from The Root of Fear

from Dark Bloom

from THE TRANQUILITY AFTER MUTATION

from TWINS OF NATURE

from White Cliffs

from Red House

from Pulse

from Diamond

from A Step Away

from Yearning For Something That Never Belonged To Me

from Yearning For Something That Never Belonged To Me

from Connect

from Connect

from Connect

from Connect

from Connect

from What the Hands Remember

from Walking Between Two Worlds

from The Weight Of Silk

from Husked by Words, Held by Land

from Husked by Words, Held by Land

from Alternative Degree Show Ideas

from What I Saw

from What I Saw

from What I Saw

from What I Saw

from Take a Bite

from Sweet Trap

from Afternoon Tea

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from Afternoon Tea

from Echoes of Memory

from Echoes of Memory

from Echoes of Memory

from Echoes of Memory

from Echoes of Memory

2025 Comprehensive materials (such as metal, plaster, latex, pewter etc. )

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from Between Lotus and Breast

from Milk

from Milk

from Surveillance Shower

Acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 200cm

from Renaissance au Clair de Lune

from Renaissance au Clair de Lune

from Rescuing Pony: Anatomy of Survival

from Glasgow Dusk

from Installation view: Water Reflection

from Still, radiant

from Installation view: weaving close-up

from Works by Hannah Gibson

from Works by Hannah Gibson

from Works by Hannah Gibson

from Works by Hannah Gibson

from Works by Hannah Gibson

from Other Works

from Welcome to My Puppet Show

from Welcome to My Puppet Show

from Welcome to My Puppet Show

from Welcome to My Puppet Show

from Topographies of Memory

from Resonance of Body and Soil

from Resonance of Body and Soil

from Resonance of Body and Soil

from Resonance of Body and Soil

from Under the Crimson Shroud

from Under the Crimson Shroud

from Under the Crimson Shroud

from Under the Crimson Shroud

from Under the Crimson Shroud

from Maternal Cycle

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from Maternal Cycle

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from Maternal Cycle

from Nature · Woman · Creature

from Nature · Woman · Creature

from Nature · Woman · Creature

from Nature · Woman · Creature

from Nature · Woman · Creature

from Other Works

from Degree Show.

from Degree Show.

from Other Works

from Other Works

from PROLIFERATION

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from PROLIFERATION

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from un-earth

from Untitled #3 (degree show)

from Sculpture

from Teeth

from Sculpture

from Sculpture

from Sculpture

from Explosion Capture Series

from Flash Powder Burn Series

from Flash Powder Burn Series

from Flash Powder Burn Series

from Explosion Capture Series

from Velvet Breath

The second piece uses cold, hard iron wire to outline the body's boundaries. In a state of anxiety, I often feel stiff, fragile, and unable to bear the weight of emotions. Therefore, I used cold, hard metal wire to construct an external framework of the body. On top of the iron wire structure, I attached fingers and expanded foam rubber to the body, symbolising touch and repair.

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from Velvet Breath

from Velvet Breath

from Velvet Breath

from What Is My Destiny?

from Installation View

from What Is My Destiny?

from Barefoot in Scotland

from My Options

from The Moon Eclipse is the Empty Full Moon

from The Moon Eclipse is the Empty Full Moon

from The Moon Eclipse is the Empty Full Moon

from The Moon Eclipse is the Empty Full Moon

from Ephemeral Woodland

from Ephemeral Woodland

from Gloaming

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from Blue Veil

from Jungle

from Imprinting

from Corndream

from Tear

from Liam

from Grass Series 1, 2025

from Greenock, 2025

from Stoney, 2025

from Grass Series, Small Strings Cutting Like Whispers, 2025

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