Jenny Brownrigg is a curator, researcher and writer. She is Exhibitions Director (2009-) and Reader (Research) in Curating at The Glasgow School of Art.
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 the 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), focusing on the early period of Joan Eardley’s practice. She also has a particular interest in the artworks of Alasdair Gray, curating ‘Spheres of Influence 2’, as part of the Alasdair Gray Season, Reid Gallery, GSA (2015). Her research on the exhibition history of Alasdair Gray will be published in ‘The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts’, Edinburgh University Press (2026).
Other published research includes Studies in Photography, ‘Ways of Seeing: Women and Photography in Scotland’ (Spring, 2021, National Trust for Scotland); and 'Bet Low: An Active Career', was published in Visual Culture in Britain Volume 21, 2020 - Issue 1: Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980 (eds. Thompson, S & Greated, M).
Brownrigg is a current board member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios was Vice Chair and a board member Pier Arts Centre (2019-2026).
Brownrigg’s other research interests include: curating archives and collections in a heritage context; commissioning, residencies, public art, critical writing, feminist art and feminist curatorial strategies.
She is a member of 'Reading Landscape' research group at The Glasgow School of Art.
Her work can be viewed www.jennybrownrigg.com
