Now at the end of its’ fifth decade the group has changed over the years both in membership and organisation but the core belief to promote the visual arts in the west of Scotland has always remained our aim. This history is split into decades and is navigated by the catalogues of that year. Under most catalogues there is a note to “click for catalogue” which will take you into supplementary information. Thus the material can be skimmed or browsed at length.

The group curates an annual exhibition in Glasgow. In some years this has been toured. In recent years the group mounted two exhibitions and a Portfolio show each year. Normally all members of the group exhibit in these exhibitions. Artist members are Glasgow artists defined by birth, training or residence. In all exhibitions there is an invited artist element. The group never restricted the choice of invited artists to Glasgow. In the early years these were Scottish visual artists. From the 1980s there was the introduction of European artists. In the 1990s the group were regularly inviting European artist to exhibit with them. Being an artists cooperative all decisions are arrived at democratically by a majority vote of the artists members. In 2000 the group introduced Portfolio Shows of unframed works. This allowed them to invite larger numbers of Scottish visual artists and a growing number of European artists to exhibit. In this work the group is financially supported by the artist members and donations from supporters.