The Hidden Lane Gallery

On holiday in Crete in 2006, a chance meeting by Robert Burns with three Ukrainians kindled an interest that has brought the Glasgow photographer back to that ravaged country again and again. Best known for his portraits and coverage of jazz festivals, Robert is internationally recognised as a printmaker for his ability to get the […]

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The renowned Canadian-born photographer Margaret Watkins lived in Glasgow unknown for more than forty years until her death in 1969. She left a legacy of more than twelve hundred superb images of exhibition standard, mainly of her work in the 1910′s and 1920′s in New York. A further treasure emerged after her death of thousands […]

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Traditional views of Glasgow in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries balance contrastingly with the Shadows series of photographic images by Glasgow-born digital artist and filmmaker Robin Johnston, whose work has been selected for several awards. Key influences for Robin are Bill Brandt and Brassay. The older Glasgow paintings and prints underline how much the city […]

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  Seeing ourselves as the press sees us is the current exhibition at the Hidden Lane Gallery. Scottish identity is the subject of this exhibition of photos shown in conjunction with the Scottish Press Photographers Association, highlighting the work of editorial photographers. The chosen pictures range from politics to sport and features, documentary, landscape, the […]

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The Hidden Lane Gallery is delighted to be showing the most complete collection of pictures by photographer Margaret Watkins to date, including previously unseen work. Margaret Watkins was of Scottish and Canadian descent, and went to America in the 1910′s, where her gift for composition and bold choice of subject made her a considerable success. […]

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Margaret Watkins and the Clarence White School: Palladium and Platinum Prints 1919 – 1925 The Hidden Lane Gallery shows palladium and platinum prints by Margaret Watkins and many of her students at the Clarence White School of Photography in the period 1919-1925. The School opened in New York in 1914. Watkins attended its Summer Schools […]

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Arrested by officers of OGPU — the KGB’s predecessor — Margaret Watkins claimed her photographs of their HQ in Moscow were purely to record post-revolutionary Russia. The Glasgow-based photographer was in a group organised by a fellow member of the Royal Photographic Society, through Intourist, the State agency charged with bringing visitors, and foreign currency, […]

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