Noru Innes
Noru Innes (b. 1978, Finland) is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist. Working across a range of disciplines - such as sculpture, photography, text-based work, collage and printmaking - her practice is grounded in subjectivity, exploring how emotional, philosophical, and socio-political experiences shape the way meaning is formed and understood.
Central to the work is the transformation of recycled, found and discarded materials into new forms and meanings. Working predominantly with objects and matter that have been abandoned, overlooked, or deemed without value, the practice explores the tension between order and instability, permanence and impermanence. Often beginning with an intuitive fragment, her process moves between control and experimentation. Through the combination of non-representational and symbolic forms, both materials and language are treated as unstable carriers of meaning, shaped by their histories, contexts, and associations. Meaning remains provisional rather than fixed, emerging through processes of reconfiguration, memory and the viewer's own subjective interpretation.
Noru studied Arts and Communication in Helsinki, Finland, until 2003, completed photographic studies at the University of Highlands and Islands in 2023, and is currently attending Fine Art Master’s degree studies at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in July 2026.
Exhibitions and publications
Exhibition - ‘The Quiet Gaze’ group exhibition at the Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, Feb 2026
Exhibition - Society of Scottish Artists annual group exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Jan 2026 - Feb 2026
Exhibition - ‘The Thread That Pulls’ Visual Arts Scotland Biennial, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
Exhibition - ‘Future/Past’ group exhibition, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, Sep - Oct 2025
Exhibition - ‘An dà Shealladh’ group exhibition, Salt Space, Glasgow, September 2025
Exhibition - ‘Once Upon A Playground’ group exhibition, Garage Gallery, Glasgow, July 2025
Publication - 'Multilingual Matter(s)' by Valeria Sacco, 2025
Publication - Suboart Magazine issue 38, artist feature, Apr 2025
Exhibition - ‘Comma’ group exhibition, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK, Mar-Apr 2025
Exhibition - ‘Salon des Échangistes’ group exhibition, Annex Gallery, GSA, Glasgow, UK, Mar-Apr 2025
Exhibition - ‘The Tales of Others’ group exhibition of five artists at The New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, Scotland, Mar 2025
Publication - Artdoc Magazine issue #1 2025 ‘Beyond the Frame’ - Featured artist
(https://www.artdoc.photo/e-magazine/issue-nr-1-2025)
Exhibition - Weird Studies Vol II group exhibition at The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, Scotland, Feb 2025
Sony World Photography Awards 2024, shortlisted in the Professional Creative category.
Art Gemini Prize 2023, Finalist, with Finalists' Exhibition at the Zari Gallery, London, UK, September 2023.
Canon Student Development Programme 2023, one of 100 students from Europe, Asia & Africa chosen for Canon’s mentoring programme
Publication - Out of Frame book 22/23
Exhibition - The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Golden Hour group exhibition, 05-30 Nov 2022
Exhibition - The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, International Portrait (group) exhibition, Sep 2022
Exhibition - Artdoc Magazine, ‘Colours of Life’ online group exhibition, Nov 2022 (https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/colours-of-life)
Various artworks displayed at Loch Leven Hotel (Scotland) permanently as well as on temporary basis since 2013