Who are the First Floor Collective?
The First Floor Collective is a vibrant community of creatives, makers, and small businesses based on the first floor of Rogart Street Campus, and in surrounding buildings. Our members span a wide range of disciplines—including printmaking, illustration, painting, bookbinding, calligraphy, design, and fine art—as well as printing studios, upholsterers, jewellery designers, independent designers, clothing, photographers, skincare, and other many other enterprises.
Being part of Glasgow Doors Open Festival is a wonderful opportunity for us to share our businesses, studios, and creative practices with the wider community. For many, it will be a rare chance to step behind our studio doors and see the processes, projects, and collaborations that usually happen out of sight.
While you explore the building, you can also enjoy a bite to eat or a cup of tea at Garlic & Thyme, the on-site restaurant at Rogart Street Campus—the perfect spot to relax, recharge, and soak in the creative atmosphere.
We can’t wait to welcome you into our world and share what makes the First Floor Collective such a unique and inspiring place to create, make, and grow.
Scroll down to find out more about who we are!
Alice Biolo
Amaranthine
Christine Novosel
Christine Novosel is an illustrator, printmaker and educator. She uses mixed media to create bold and playful artwork, often featuring animals and patterns.
Claire Barclay Draws
Claire Barclay Draws is an illustration, greetings card & gift brand creating works inspired by some of Claire's favourite elements of Scottish culture – mainly our fun quirks and sayings which translate so well into fun, joyful greetings cards and gifts with their own distinctive illustrative style!
Comfortably Sprung Upholstery
Dastardly Line
Dastardly Line is a circular textiles studio transforming industry waste into high-end, sustainable products and skilled local jobs. We reimagine materials like cashmere selvedge, reweaving it into luxury blankets and throws. Alongside this, our longarm quilting studio offers education, machine rental, and creative support for quilters of all levels
Eclectic Kelpie
Working under the name Eclectic Kelpie, Glasgow-based artist and illustrator Arla creates finely detailed pet portraits and handcrafted animal-themed accessories. Her work combines artistic precision with a deep affection for animals, resulting in unique pieces that are both personal and thoughtfully made.
For the Love of Yarn
For the Love of Yarn is an award winning Indie yarn brand with a working studio space and shop, creating a wide array of vibrant exciting hand dyed yarn and accessories. We strive to create a warm and welcoming space for people to come and shop, take a class and just relax in our comfy yarn haven.
GemForm3D
HoVana Holistics & Beauty
Jeremy Carlisle
Jim Ramsay Studio
Juju Books
Karen Hannigan
I am a narrative silversmith and jewellery artist.
My work explores the emotional dynamics of family and identity, often drawing on personal experiences to create pieces that resonate with a sense of memory, belonging and connection. Each piece I create is both wearable and meaningful — a small sculpture with a story to tell.
Lindsay Mahood Jewellery
I’m a silversmith and jeweller creating contemporary pieces with stories at their heart, wearable, meaningful, and timeless.
Megan Rudden
Mobile Print Studio
Paper Arcade
Parallel Prints
Passion Made Glass
The glass mesmerised me, with its beauty and fragility, and I discovered this as a perfect medium to express myself. I am fascinated with new techniques and investigating the broad possibilities of glass. I am delighted with the way light stimulates glass to life.
The magnificence of nature and the elusiveness of the moment are the sources of my inspiration. To articulate my vision of the world, I’m using stained glass and fused glass techniques often mixed to combine tradition with modernity.
The Wellbeing Hub
Thérèse Lynch Artist
Toasty Type
Toasty Type blends hand lettering, calligraphy, and illustration to create bespoke pieces for weddings, brands, and events—think invites, signage, and custom-painted jackets or shoes. I also teach modern calligraphy workshops, sharing the craft with others. Clients include Iolla, Oh Polly, Gleneagles, The Macallan, Barclays, and leading bars and restaurants across the city.
Trevor Cromie
Working as a curator / producer / artist for the last 40 years I have tried to find ways of presenting ‘culture’ in dynamic and accessible ways. Now it’s time for play!
SOCIALS AND WEBSITE COMING SOON!
Temple Divine
Woollenflower
Woollenflower is a natural dye and textile studio run by horticulturist and craftsperson, Julia Billings. With a focus on dyeing yarn, threads and cloth for other craftspeople, Julia hopes to facilitate the making of objects that are beautiful, comforting and long-lasting and to expand public perception of the range of shades that natural dyes yield.
Garlic & Thyme
Vanilla Ink CIC
We’re Vanilla Ink CIC, a jewellery school and creative community based in Glasgow. We welcome anyone to come and learn jewellery-making, from beginners’ classes to skilled training and creative residencies. Our aim is simple: to Educate, Inspire and Empower through making, community and creativity.
