About

April is a Glasgow-based artist 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. It draws upon daily encounters with shifting landscapes, light, and materials, producing immersive surfaces that invite a contemplative, embodied mode of looking. April holds both a BA(Hons) & a Master's of Letter's in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art (2019-2024).

Email: Studioapril@outlook.com

Instagram: @___April____

Education

2025- The Glasgow School of Art, PG Certificate, Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines. (Associate Fellowship in Higher Education, AFHE).

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 & Design programme.

2018-City of Glasgow College, Higher National Diploma in Contemporary Art Practice.

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Beneath the Noise, SWG3, Glasgow, UK.

The Printworks, Portobello, Edinburgh, UK.

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.

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.

Features

2026

The Blank Canvas podcast, Blank Canvas/Пусте Полотно: episode 1 with APRIL

2025

SWG3 Beneath The Noise Exhibition at SWG3 Glasgow

dialogue | April Lannigan — brave Projects

Artists | Riot 2

April Lannigan - Hidden Door

Issue / Volume 1 | Curatory Magazine

2024

The Glasgow School of Art - April Lannigan on Vimeo

April Lannigan | Saatchi Art

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

2023

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.