Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
@angushood.bsky.social @angushood.bsky.social
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
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Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
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Sam Woods @samewoods.bsky.social Curator @ Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Deep Time festival, Fruitmarket Warehouse, Nov 2025
Pavlos Georgiou @pavlosgeorgiou.bsky.social Doomscrolling
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
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–H. Murakami
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
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Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights @crer-scotland.bsky.social CRER is a Scottish strategic anti-racist organisation.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
JJ Charlesworth @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social Art critic, editor at @ArtReview.bsky.social. Anthropocentrist. Words for ArtReview, Telegraph, spiked and others. Sometimes political, sometimes aesthetic.
Dr Lucy Bradnock @lucybradnock.bsky.social Twin mum | Art historian and Head of Research at The Courtauld | Editor of Art History | Author of No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud @yalepress.
CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social CIRCA Art Magazine is an independent, artist- and writer-led online art publication. #VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA
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Sarah Lowndes @lowndessarah.bsky.social Author, Curator and Director of Kunsthalle Cromer. Researching culture, society and mental health. Interested in human potential sarahlowndes.net
Katrina Brown @katrinabrown.bsky.social Art, and all that entails. Director at The Common Guild. Trustee of Art Fund. Live in (and mostly love) Glasgow. Otherwise in the garden 🌱
Neil Bickerton @konch.bsky.social Artist. Find things at the sporadically updated neilbickerton.com
Alan Currall @alancurrall.bsky.social Mystery guest.
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
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Dr Caroline Douglas @carolinedouglas.bsky.social Artist / Researcher
Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland
2025 Fellow, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2024 PhD Graduate, Royal College of Art, London
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South London Gallery @southlondongallery.bsky.social 📍 Contemporary art gallery in south London.
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
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@ffionabradley.bsky.social @ffionabradley.bsky.social Director Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Art, flowers, books, skies and sea
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Elizabeth McLean @elizabook.bsky.social
Fruitmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences.
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@grahamfagen.bsky.social @grahamfagen.bsky.social
Stephanie Smith @smithsj.bsky.social Mother. Artist. Works in collaboration with Eddie Stewart SMITH/STEWART.
Glasgow based Mancunian.
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Grant McPhee @grantmcphee.bsky.social Film director: Big Gold Dream, Teenage Superstars, Far From the Apple Tree.
Book Writer - Postcards From Scotland and co-writer Hungry Beat
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Arika @00arika00.bsky.social Arika is a political arts organisation concerned with supporting connections between artistic production and social change. We have been creating events since 2001. https://arika.org.uk
Alice Strang @alicestrangart.bsky.social Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist & Art Historian
A Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland
Photo by Alex Robson
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Edinburgh College of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh, UK. Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.
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Alicia Bruce @aliciabruce.bsky.social Scottish artist, photographer, community collaborator
Member of Women Photograph
Teaching Fellow, eca
Founder Portobello Photography School
Book ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ (Daylight Books USA) celebrates a Scottish community who stood up to Trump
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
What's On Glasgow @whatsonglasgow.bsky.social Your essential guide to what's on in Glasgow and beyond www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
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Adrian Lobb @adey70.bsky.social I write for The Big Issue about arts and culture and stuff. SE London, via Derby, Cov, N London and Glasgow.
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
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Even Allen @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social They/Them
May/Hem
Art writer and critic “Unforgivingly Queer as fuck” Sacha Coward. Intersectional activist. Epileptic. Botherer. Flaneur. Lefty.
Treat me
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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 🍩 Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing 📐 Personal account 📎
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Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social Artist in but not necessarily about Scotland.
Video photography and text.
"It's a Sign!" exhibition and book crowdfunder
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www.atomtown.org
Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social I’m an artist working within public spaces of exhibition and publication, thinking about who gets to make art and how, where and why 👀 Professor of Contemporary Art + Co-lead of MFA Arts & Humanities at Royal College of Art 🤡 UCU rep.✊ 🪱
Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses.
Dr Susan Jones @susandrjonesarts.bsky.social Independent arts researcher and commentator on artists’ livelihoods and arts policy interrelations www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk
Dr Gráinne Rice @grainnerr.bsky.social Adult Programme Coordinator, @Natgalleriessco
All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social Contemporary art magazine based in London; follow for the latest artist interviews, news, reviews and more.
Art Monthly – taking art apart since 1976
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@francismckee.bsky.social @francismckee.bsky.social lecturer at glasgow school of art - photography, writing, contemporary art, blues, jazz, curating, krazy kat
Neil Cooper @neilcooper.bsky.social Writer & Critic The Noise of Art - neilcooper.substack.com
coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com
The Herald, The List, The Drouth, Scottish Art News, MAP, Hungry Beat.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Craig Mulholland @craigmulholland.bsky.social Artist represented by Kendallkoppe.gallery
Co Director of HommAges.uk
Lecturer & Researcher at Glasgow School Of Art
www.craigmulholland.com
GSA Sustainability @gsasustainability.bsky.social Working with designers, artists and architects at Glasgow School of Art on environmental and social justice within their practice.
Jenny Brownrigg @jennybrownrigg.bsky.social Curator and writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art. Board member Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Pier Arts Centre. On GSA UCU committee. she/her www.jennybrownrigg.com
The Glasgow School of Art Library @gsalibrary.bsky.social GSA Library Services is a department at The Glasgow School of Art, a leading UK higher education institution in the visual arts 📚 #GSALibrary
Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social Pākehā Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal
Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social Leading Open Access publisher of high-quality academic books. Non-profit, scholar-led. Part of @copim.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social. Find us here: https://lnk.bio/openbookpublishers
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
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