Listen Gallery - Light Sown in Memoriam

Before beginning this experimental audio journey, please ensure you are wearing comfortable footwear. The path can be uneven so please take care when walking.

The Route: the map below presents listeners with a step-free guide. For safety and ease of listening, we encourage a slower walking pace and please feel free to stop whenever you want.

Please use your own mobile device with mobile data and headphones, A limited number of devices are available to hire between 2-5pm (5th - 21st June) from St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.

You can access the audio tour anytime during Glasgow International Festival 2026.

The Glasgow Necropolis is an active cemetery, as you move through the site, please do so with care and consideration.

Duration: One hour.
If you have any access needs please get in touch so we can learn how best to assist you: Listengallery@outlook.com

Group walks: Listening with the curator: 10th June 5-7pm (20 Spaces only) Book here
Listening with artist Natasha Themiso Ruwona: 18th June 5-7pm (20 Spaces for BIPOC only) Book here

Listen Gallery is honoured to present a new experimental audio tour, Light Sown in Memoriam, set within Glasgow Necropolis. The project brings together three new sound works by artists Bex Šik, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Adam McNeil.

Each artist presents a site-responsive work shaped by sonic practice and somatic awareness. Accessed digitally and encountered on foot, the triptych audio work invites audiences to move through and listen to the Necropolis as both landscape and living archive. Histories of religious iconography, colonial extraction, slavery, and the accumulation of wealth that underpinned the city’s expansion resonate within the stone, soil, and pathways of the site. The sound journey encourages re-listening to a historical site whose legacies remain active, unfolding through memory, power, and place.

Bex Šik (LINK TO WEBSITE) is an artist and educator whose recent work explores echoes, electromagnetic phenomena, invisible forces that shape the body’s relationship to time and state.

Natasha Thembiso Ruwona (LINK TO WEBSITE) is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist and researcher focused on place-making and collaboration, creating nurturing spaces for connection.

Adam McNeil (LINK TO WEBSITE) is a Scottish sound artist whose practice is shaped by their Protestant upbringing, mental health, working-class insecurity, and Deep Topography.

This project is presented by Listen Gallery, a Glasgow-based organisation dedicated to sound art and listening-led practices.

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Listen Gallery gives thanks to the land, living beings, and ancestors of this place. We thank the artists and their extended networks of support.

With appreciation to:
The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis, especially Annette, whose words guide this work:

“You don’t go to the Necropolis, she comes to you”

Glasgow International team
Cheryl and Carlton Studios
Imagesystem Design & Print
The Listen Gallery community, who continue to hold and sustain this work

We welcome your feedback: Listengallery@outlook.com

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