Owain Train McGilvary is an artist and Lecturer in Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking. Usually working with moving image, drawing and collage, his projects are anchored by collaboration with an interest in language originating from popular culture, queer vernaculars and slang where he investigates the subcultures that engage, use and subvert them.

His projects seek to explore the parameters of language through verbal, gestural and pictorial means by considering oral history, speculation, found images, archival material, drawing as baring witness and collaborations together as forms of translations. Often guided by the tensions between fact and feelings, McGilvary devotes projects with people over long periods of time through building trusting relationships that continue beyond the legacy omore...

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in the Creative Disciplines, The Glasgow School of Art (2022-2023)

MFA, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (2017-2019)

BA(Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London (2012-15)