In June 2026, as part of Glasgow International, Listen Gallery presented a new experimental audio tour, Light Sown in Memoriam, set within Glasgow Necropolis. The project shared three new sound works by artists Bex Šik, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, and Adam McNeil.

Each artist presented 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 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 is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist and researcher focused on place-making and collaboration, creating nurturing spaces for connection.

Adam McNeil 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 grassroots 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

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