{"id":236546,"date":"2026-01-16T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:53:07","slug":"glasgow-arts-group-back-from-the-brink-with-first-show-in-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236546\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow arts group back from the brink with first show in decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group&#8217;s administrator, artist Michael Durning said there was now &#8220;momentum starting to build&#8221; behind the RGI again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The Lillie Gallery is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the West of Scotland outside Glasgow and we have encouraged the artists to show their biggest, most colourful paintings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The artists enjoy putting on a nice big show, but an exciting big show is even better, and we look forward to hosting great big shows that&#8217;ll be the pride of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exhibition also includes works by past and present RGI members from the Lillie Gallery&#8217;s own collection, including paintings by Duncan Shanks, Neil MacPherson and Dame Barbara Rae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the RGI was founded it was a major part of the Glasgow art scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the years it supported the early careers of artists like Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group&#8217;s administrator, artist Michael Durning said there was now &#8220;momentum starting to build&#8221; behind the RGI again.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-236546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}