{"id":373483,"date":"2026-01-16T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373483\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:11:07","slug":"glasgow-arts-group-back-from-the-brink-with-first-show-in-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373483\/","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":373484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-373483","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}