Introduction
City Swallows is a series of mosaic art works installed in Glasgow City Centre on empty buildings or crumbling walls. The mosaic swallows ‘arrived’ in Glasgow at a time when swallows were migrating to Southern Africa to escape the cold winter months in the North. Each mosaic swallow is made from broken or cut pieces from different materials which in turn contribute to the meaning and connection of the different swallows in relation to their specific selected locations.
In this article I briefly touch on the origin of the City Swallow series, the making process and the locations of each mosaic swallow. For reasons of brevity, I omit to write about the place of the swallow in Art History and the significance of the swallow in the history of cultures as a symbol of hope. (read more)
