Glasgow-based artist and writer working across object making, writing, drawing, installation and performance.

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Email             meganrudden@hotmail.co.uk  

Instagram     meganrudden

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Education

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Glasgow School of Art, MLitt Art Writing 2019 - 2021

Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art 2016 - 2018

Edinburgh College, HND Contemporary Art Practice 2015 - 2016 

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Selected Residencies & Awards ​

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Frieze New Writers, Liverpool edition, 2025

Hawthornvale Mentorship Programme, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2025

The Skinny x EAF Emerging Writers Award, 2025

Edinburgh College Artist in Residence, 2023 

Project Ability August Residency, 2019

Scottish Sculpture Workshop Summer Residency, 2018​

Bowling Harbour Artist in Residence, 2018

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Selected Exhibitions and Performances​

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2025           Love in the Ecotone, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

2024           Inside there is a goat on the table, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

2024           Nancy's House (solo show), Hubcap Gallery, Granton Gatehouse

2023           Granton Séance (solo show), mote102, Edinburgh

2023           from time to time vaporous, Volk Gallery, Dundee

2023           The Witches Dance, Sett Studios, Edinburgh

2022           Mud Oven Afternoons, Edinburgh Art Festival

2022           Sickness in the Sacristy (solo show), Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow

2021          KNICKNACKERED, Griffen Fitness Leith, Edinburgh

2021          The Long Note, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow

2021          Alive!, GENERATOR, Dundee

2021          Everything Must Go, Shawlands Arcade, Glasgow​

2021          joy and nostalgia are the same rose tinted thing, Embassy Gallery

2020          Friday Forum, Online event with Visual Arts Scotland

2019/20     SSA | VAS OPEN, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2019          Project Ability - Artists in Residency, The Art School, Glasgow

2019          Sleekit, Wooosh Gallery, Dundee

2019          Working Class Exotica, Leith Dockers Club

2019          ALIGHT, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2019          Gone Fishing, DOK Artist Space Steel Shed, Edinburgh

2018          Emergency, Z-Arts, Manchester

2018          And Another Thing, New Glasgow Society

2018          Within Half an Inch of a Yard, Pollok House, Glasgow

2018          Calm Down Dear, Where People Sleep, Glasgow

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Press

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‘I’M GETTING TEA, MAYBE THE FLAT SWEETNESS OF A CUSTARD CREAM’, Timothea Armour joins hands with the past at the exhibition Granton Séance by Megan Rudden​

​SICKNESS IN THE SACRISTY, Hayley Jane Dawson reviews recent work by Megan Rudden at Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow

New Art Exhibition at Craigmillar Castle; a month-long art installation by artist, poet and performer Ellen Renton and sculptor Megan Rudden

Nancy’s House: Exhibition by Megan Rudden at HUBCAP Gallery

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