Lisette May Monroe

Hard Lines

Dates to be released soon

Gulabi Independent Film Lab,

77 Torrisdale Street, Glasgow, G42 8PW

A solo exhibition from Outer Spaces network artist Lisette May Monroe, as part of Glasgow International 2026 in receipt of Outer Spaces production support.

Lisette May Monroe, 'Neighbours', Collage (detail), 2022

Hard Lines is an autobiographical installation that uses sentimentality, nostalgia and revenge to navigate the aftermath of an abandoned relationship, while questioning what it means to inhabit a body stigmatised by the overhanging spectres of class, disability and menopause.

Where do long, sleepless nights lie within the mire of the late thirties? Where do heartache and longing reside amid the frenzy of shame? When the body begins to give up the ghost, as it has threatened to do since birth - particularly now in its most dire of hours, how does this haunting not become consuming?

In her autobiography, Hilary Mantel writes, “I began this writing in an attempt to seize copyright in myself.” Hard Lines is an exercise in doing the same, drawing an edge around experience and representing it as fact.

Lisette May Monroe is a Glasgow-based artist and writer from Kippax, Leeds. She regularly writes art criticism and opinion for Frieze, The Guardian, Elephant and Tank. She is also co-director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press alongside Adrien Howard. Rosie’s is an artist-led space for expanded publishing which focuses on practices that engage with queer, working-class, and feminist modes of production.

This exhibition is supported by Creative Scotland Open Fund with production support for new work supported by Outer Spaces.