Welcome Home is a multi-disciplinary gallery and creative retail space, based in Glasgow’s west end (map), with an on site studio space for production, artist in residence schemes and workshops. Focused on making design accessible to all, it provides a constantly evolving space for new artists, designers and members of the public to showcase, create, learn and educate.

Welcome Home is run by designer Mhari McMullan who graduated from Textile Design (specialising in print) at Central Saint Martins in 2003. Mhari likes applying herself and her work to a variety of end results, bridging gaps between art, craft, design, fashion, illustration and teaching. She moved up to Glasgow in 2007 with a twinkle in her eye, Mhari wanted to find somewhere where she could combine everything she loved doing and seeing. It took a while but she finally opened Welcome Home on 3rd October 2009.

The items sold in the gallery, shop and online are predominantly handmade, well designed, useful, beautiful or all of the above. Whether it’s a book on photography, a vintage find, a carefully crafted necklace, a screen printed T-shirt or an original illustration, everything you’ll find in Welcome Home will have its own story and be all the more special for it.

Tomorrow, 3pm-6pm, you can contribute to the first issue of COPYCOLLECT

All are invited to Welcome Home for an afternoon of drawing and the creation of a small exhibition. If you don’t have time to stay for the fun but would still like to contribute a piece you can drop one off on the afternoon. It can be an image or a piece of writing, but it has to be on one side of A4 paper. All the day’s efforts will also be compiled in photocopy form and an edition of the collection will be available for all participants to collect or others to purchase within the week.
The address is Welcome Home, 19 Keith Street, Glasgow , G11 6QQ (just round the corner from Tesco on Dumbarton Rd)