The Future of Hindsight (for Christine and Frieda)
Collaborative audio sketches with artist and PHD Student at Glasgow university Jennifer Wicks for the exhibition Mother Curator.

6 Sketches cut from a live recording using reel to reel, minidisc, guitar, bass, mics and effects.

Sketch1 8 min 48
Sketch 2 2min 06
Sketch 3 2min 12
Sketch 4 1min 09
Sketch 5 4min 48
Sketch 6 10 min 32

Inspired by the recordings of women who dedicated years to local community and action the work explores shared threads that offer alternative modes of memory, authorship, and transmission, valuing the tactile, the collective, the imperfect, and resistant practice. The project and collaboration has grown from Bex’s research into the Woman in Communism interview series recorded by Neil Rafeek, held at the National Library of Scotland’s Sound Archive. Ideas of hindsight and time and central to the work and the constant rearranging of sound and feedback are used to experiment with ideas of archival permanence and truth.

Looping and feedback are methods which continually reshapes and recontextualises the material, allowing voices and sounds to evolve over time, generating new associations and temporal layers. Looping becomes a mechanism for transforming memory into material experience, disrupting the fixed temporality of aural archiving. Archiving is considered as conversation, as scattering, as finding a collective voice through scrapbooking, effecting found and scavenged materials, repurposing, sharing, re-editing, resharing, and revoicing each other’s words. Who gets to speak whose words and how do collective histories circulate through sound and material practice?

Mother Curator
10th – 31st January 2026
Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

This exhibition, curated by 4th year Fine Art student Emma Scarlett, brings together existing and new work by GSA staff and students who are mothers. Conversations around gender roles and caregiving have been ongoing for generations, but the significance of motherhood is still frequently undervalued. The exhibition aims to transform this narrative by celebrating motherhood in its fullness, its challenges, its strengths and its profound creativity. By sharing lived experiences through their work, Mother Curator hopes to create space for new perspectives.

Artists are Chantal Balmer, Sara Barker, Kate Davis, Louise Donnelly, Fiona Glen, Emma Keogh, Lorna Macintyre, Lindsey McAulay, Shauna McMullan, Kim McNeil, Rosie Morris, Maya El Nahal, Thomai Pnevmonidou, Lesley Punton, Susan Roan, Fiona Robertson, Anna Almqvist Romanus, Emma Scarlett, Annabel Sharp, Niketa Shetty, Bex Šik and Jennifer Wicks, Stephanie Smith (SMITH/STEWART), Felicity Steers and Josie Williams.