Jenny Brownrigg
Jenny Brownrigg
- Exhibitions Director
- Professional Title
- Reader (Research) in Curating
- Job Title
- Exhibitions Director
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- J.Brownrigg@gsa.ac.uk
- Contact Number
- 0141 353 4525
- Professional Address
- 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RF
- Country
- Scotland, UK
Biography
Jenny Brownrigg is a curator, researcher and writer.
Her enduring research question is: How can curatorial methodology and exhibition-making bring new understanding to the overlooked practices of 20th Century women photographers, filmmakers and artists in Scotland? Exhibition outputs include: Sandra George, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2024, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow); the survey exhibition 'Glean: early 20th century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland', City Art Centre, Edinburgh (2022/23) and ‘Franki Raffles: Observing Women at Work’, Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art (2017).
She has co-curated exhibitions exploring lesser-known aspects of 20th Century Scottish women artists’ practices, including ‘Bet Low: An island on your doorstep’ Reid Gallery GSA/The Pier Arts Centre (co-curated with Andrew Parkinson, 2025) and ‘Early Eardley: Selected works 1940-1950’, (Reid Gallery, GSA, co-curated with Professor Susannah Thompson, 2023).
She is a member of GSA's 'Reading Landscape' research group.
Research Interests
Curating, women's photography, Scottish exhibition histories, feminist art and feminist curatorial strategies, archives, collections
Latest Additions
- Brownrigg, Jenny (2026) Sandra George's Social Documentary Photography. In: Sandra George. Sansom & Company, Christian Malford, pp. 6-11. ISBN 9781915670397
- Brownrigg, Jenny (2025) The Exhibitions of Alasdair Gray. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press.
- Brownrigg, Jenny and Andrew, Parkinson (2025) Bet Low: An Island on Your Doorstep. Reid Gallery, GSA; The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, 11.1.25-8.2.25 GSA; 1.3.25-7.6.25 The Pier Arts Centre
- Brownrigg, Jenny (2024) Sandra George. 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, 7-23 June 2024
- Brownrigg, Jenny and Thompson, Susannah (2023) Early Eardley: Selected Works 1940-1950. Reid Gallery and Windows on Heritage, 9 November - 16 December 2023
- Brownrigg, Jenny (2023) Co-roinn | Glean: Early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland. Museum nan Eilean (Lionacleit), 5 Oct - 9 Dec 2023
- McDonald, Lisa, Jeffrey, Stuart and Brownrigg, Jenny (2023) Undercurrents: Art and Ocean in Africa and the Pacific. Sommerset House, London, 1-25 June 2023
- Brownrigg, Jenny (2022) Glean: Early 20th century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland. City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 12 Nov 2022 - 12 March 2023
- Thompson, Susannah and Brownrigg, Jenny (2022) Early Eardley: a reconsideration of Joan Eardley (1921-1963). The British Art Journal, XXII (3). pp. 64-79. ISSN 1467-2006
- Thompson, Susannah and Brownrigg, Jenny (2021) Joan Eardley at The Glasgow School of Art. Scottish Art News (34). pp. 13-16. ISSN 1749-7310
