MEDIUM

Current Exhibition

MEDIUM

Esther Gamsu

Exhibition
11.10 – 29.11.2025

Opening
Friday 10 October, 6–9pm

Open
Friday and Saturday, 12–5pm

Within her practice, Esther Gamsu combines sculpture, film, and textiles, to explore and reframe personal and collective memory, identity, and desire in late capitalist society. Interested in the blurring of high and low culture and influenced by the Postmodernist writing of Jan Verwoert and Nicolas Bourriaud, Gamsu employs fandom and appropriation as critical methodologies. By playing with scale and DIY aesthetics, Gamsu uses humour to reclaim and re-contextualise popular culture and challenge entrenched cultural ideologies.

MEDIUM considers the acts of obsession and repetition as creative tools to consider and disrupt dominant capitalist ideologies. Gamsu’s sculptural installation creates a space to question how we define and pursue success—both individually and collectively—amid the complexities of the current political and economic climate. It seeks to prompt reflection and dialogue around the values that shape our identities and aspirations today.

Esther Gamsu (b.1995, Sheffield, UK) previously studied at Glasgow School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Manifesto, A Plus A Gallery, Venice; I Licked it so it’s Mine, Votive Gallery, Edinburgh; Tenfold, St James’ Piccadilly, London. She has created public artworks for St James Church Picadilly, London; Newbridge Project, Newcastle; Govan Cross Shopping Centre, Glasgow; and Platform, Glasgow.

A childhood fear of Michael Jackson, a group of boys constructing a 6-foot-tall penis shaped snowman on Glasgow Green, working Saturdays as a fishmonger, Elvis kissing all the female audience members at his show in Las Vegas.

Supported by The Elephant Trust and Creative Scotland.