The Ballet of the Palette is an exhibition of 20th century paintings selected form Glasgow Museums' collection, shown in Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art ,with accompanying texts . These paintings have been chosen, and written about by contemporary artists who exhibited work in the 2013 - 2014 exhibition "The Ballet for the Palette".

Invited to work with the Glasgow museum collection of 20th century paintings I selected and wrote about four paintings, three of them were exhibited in Glasgow gallery of Modern art, and one in its permanent place at Kelvingrove museum. The paintings I chose were “Night Sky Dreaming” (ca1989) by the Australian Aboriginal painter Paddy Japaljarri Sims, “Birds and Tree” (1968) by William Crosbie, “Salopian Cup and Chinese Vase” (1942) by Norah Neilson Gray, and “Crib” (1995) by Alexander Guy. In the text’s I wrote in response to these paintings I reflect on them in relation to the research areas that are of interest to me: Abstract material qualities like detail, – particular surface qualities, color, fineness of mark. Also it’s opposite: in the macho painting style of Alexander Guy in the 1990's, of which I do a feminist reading. Looking at the painting by Norah Grey I write about fashion and the decorative, status symbols, and of paintings as status symbols.