Yardworks has grown to become one of Europe’s biggest and best festivals dedicated to street art and graffiti. Across two days, the concrete playground that is our Galvanizers Yard becomes a mess of colour, creativity and collaboration as urban artists from across Glasgow, the UK and Europe come together to paint, draw, inspire, educate, or just hang out and eat fancy chips.
Since our very first festival in 2017, it’s safe to say the word is now very much out, with the festival now attracting the global elite of the street arts and graffiti scene.
Yardworks Festival returned to transform the Galvanizers Yard and beyond into a riotous celebration of colour from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 May 2023. This year was extra special, as it also marked the official launch of Yardworks Studio – an innovative purpose-built space that will provide a home for hundreds of artists, youth and community organisations to create work in.
2023
Taking place on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June 2022, the concrete playground that is our Galvanizers Yard became a mess of colour, creativity and collaboration once again as urban artists from across Glasgow, the UK and Europe came together to paint, draw, inspire, educate, or just hang out and eat fancy chips.
2022
With the global pandemic putting a halt on large gatherings, in 2021 Yardworks went small-scale, hosting a miniature version of our internationally-renowned graffiti and street art to coincide with one of our key projects in SWG3’s neighbouring community of Govan.
2021
With the festival’s reputation having well and truly spread, 2019’s event felt like a key fixture in the graffiti and street art calendar, continuing to change public perceptions towards the art form and the artists involved by showcasing their ability to create these highly skilled works in such a short space of time.
2019
In the lead-up to the second Yardworks Festival, SWG3 commissioned a piece by Madrid duo PichiAvo, who created a piece fusing Classical art and graffiti. It's the one you can still see today, proudly spanning the back wall of our Galvanizers space.
2018
Our first festival, back in 2017, was Scotland’s largest gathering of graffiti and street art, with over 125 international and local artists presenting their work across 400 metres of walls, outlining the draw and demand for public works of this kind.
2017