2026
About
April (b. 1998) is a Glasgow-based artist and producer working with colour, space and environments. Using paint as her primary medium, she explores questions surrounding both natural and built environments of Scotland. Her practice spans large-scale oil paintings on canvas, installation art, sculpture and drawing. April holds both a BA(Hons) & a Master's of Letter's in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art (2019-2024).
April is an abstract painter whose work is driven by an intuitive engagement with colour, materiality and lived experience. Working between rural Scotland and Glasgow, she creates expansive paintings that explore atmosphere, movement, and sensory perception. Her practice draws upon daily encounters with shifting landscapes, light, and rhythm, producing immersive surfaces that invite a contemplative and embodied mode of looking.
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Central to April's practice is an exploration of how colour and scale generate emotional and spatial experience. Her large-scale oil paintings employ layered pigment, gestural mark making, and processes of revision and reworking to create dense, luminous surfaces. Through cycles of accumulation, erasure, and reconstruction, her paintings evolve as records of touch, thought, and duration. Domestic and sensory encounters are embedded within the painted surface, merging the intimacy of everyday life with the expansiveness of landscape. Her work investigates how gesture, material, and atmosphere can hold memory, evoke sensation, and generate perceptual resonance.
Hotworks, Master's Degree Exhibition, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
Education
2025​- The Glasgow School of Art, Post Graduate Certificate (Course 1) in Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines.
2024​- The Glasgow School of Art, Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice. (Distinction)
​​2023- The Glasgow School of Art, BA(Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art. (First-Class)
​2019- The Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Foundation Art Course.
​2018-City of Glasgow College, Diploma in Contemporary Art Practice.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Beneath the Noise, SWG3, Glasgow, UK.
The Printworks, Portobello, Edinburgh, UK.
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2024
​​Echoes of Renewal in Rust, Gleneagles Hotel, UK.
Beyond The Surface, The Briggait Front-Galleries, Glasgow, UK.
Print! W2 Men's Store, West End, Glasgow, UK.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK. 2026.
Well's Cathedral, Wells, UK. 2025.
Index, The Glasgow School of Art, UK. 2025.
Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, UK. 2025.
Never go out, SWG3 Glasgow, UK. 2025.
30 x 30, Society of Scottish Artists Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 2024.
The Beat, The Kaleidoscope Gallery, UK & Echo's Studios, Rau Pelotas, Sao Paul, Brazil. 2024.
Dreams, Part Crowd Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 2024.
Landscape Painting Today, London Messum's, West East, Online Exhibition, London, UK. 2024.
Postgraduate Degree Show, Fine Art, Stow Building, Glasgow, UK. 2024.​
Shoulder's of Giants, GSA Graduate Show, Glasgow Art Club, UK. 2024.
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, McLaurin Gallery, Ayr, UK. 2024.
Undergraduate Degree Show, Stow Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK. 2023.
WEST, Visual Arts Scotland, The Briggait, Glasgow, UK. 2023.
130 Years, Scottish Society of Artists, Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Edinburgh, UK. 2022.
Material Matters-Remade, French Street Gallery, Glasgow, UK. 2022.
Annuale 2022, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. 2022.
Reconfiguration, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow, UK. 2022.
Shedded Wheat, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK. 2022.​
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Ways of Walking in Glasgow ll, 2026, 150cm x 120cm x 4cm, Oil on Canvas.
Features
2025
​SWG3 Beneath The Noise Exhibition at SWG3 Glasgow
dialogue | April Lannigan — brave Projects
Issue / Volume 1 | Curatory Magazine
2024
​The Glasgow School of Art - April Lannigan on Vimeo
UK Exhibitions - Central, East, West | Messums Org
Master's Degree Show Catalogue, The Glasgow School of Art, UK.
Beyond the Surface - April - Wasps (waspsstudios.org.uk)
'Beyond the Surface' By April - Exhibition at The Briggait in Glasgow (artrabbit.com)
Scotsman: Emerging Sculpture Award, (January 2024) Emerging Scottish sculptors get the chance to create work for new Edinburgh ‘culture quarter’ (scotsman.com)
Glasgow School of Art & Midton: Materials Matter
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2023
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Glasgow School of Art Website, (December 2023) The Glasgow School of Art (gsa.ac.uk)
Paisley Art Review; The Scotsman (July 2023). Art review: The Big Art Show, The Art Department, Paisley (scotsman.com)
GSA Degree Show Review; The Scotsman (June 2023) Art reviews: Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2023 | Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show 2023 | The Scotsman
Glasgow School of Art Digital Showcase (July 2023) April – GSA Showcase 2023
Glasgow School of Art, Degree Show Catalogue, Good Press Glasgow.
Living Landscape, Undergraduate Degree Show work, Self Publication.
2022
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SSA 130 Years | Annual Exhibition Awards – Society of Scottish Artists (s-s-a.org)
Materials Matter Research Publication, Goodpress Glasgow, UK. Project funded by The Glasgow School of Art.
Award Winners, Paisley Art, July 2022. Prizewinners 2022 – OUTSPOKEN ARTS SCOTLAND
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2021
A year lost at SEA, Goodpress Glasgow, UK. Year 2 Sculpture and Environmental Art publication by the Glasgow School of Art.
Exhibition Catalogue. 'Art of the Possible' - Exhibiting Artists - Glasgow Art Club Close of Play: Art of the Possible (gsa.ac.uk)
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2020
Glasgow University Magazine (GUM) Facebook
Awards
2025
Jackson's Art Prize, Extended Long List.
Innovator & Entrepreneur Award Winner, with Garrett Ure, The Glasgow School of Art.
Scottish Landscape Awards Bursary.
2024
SWG3 Graduate Award.
Women in Art Prize, Longlist, 2024.
Selected Artist: Emerging Sculpture Award at Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, UK.
2023
The WASPS Award (Solo Show) Scottish Society of Artist's Show at the MacLaurin Gallery, Ayr, UK.
Society of Scottish Artists, New Graduate Award (Highly Commended).
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2022
Barns-Graham Prize, Scottish Society of Artists at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK.
Midton acrylic's year long research collaboration, Glasgow School of Art, UK.
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Talks
ELIA Conference, Milan, Italy, Artists think differently. April Lannigan, Garrett Ure, Justin Carter. Susan Brind.
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Collaborations
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