Of Us & Others – The Alasdair Gray Archive’s Creative Commission

Of Us & Others is the result of The Alasdair Gray Archive’s inaugural visual art Creative Commission with Maya Rose Edwards, supported by Creative Scotland Open Fund and Ed Morgan Trust. Edward’s has created a new film which will screen for one day only Civic House on 04.10.25, from 12–5pm, on a rolling loop.

Inspired by WWI “camouflage trees”—hollow structures used for covert observation—Edwards created two sculptural installations designed as spaces for live, anonymous conversations between LGBTQIA+ thinkers. These discussions took place across various locations in Glasgow and explored themes common to the works of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan, including imagined futures, kinship, and queer identity. Notably, participants—including poets, artists, researchers, young people, and activists—engaged without prior acquaintance, connected only through the broader LGBTQ+ community.

Of Us & Others is a montage of voices, ideas, and places—held together by the structural metaphor of the camouflage tree and the resonant power of what remains unsaid.