I’m Glasgow Hardie, an art historian and writer working across early modern and contemporary art. My PhD at UCL began from a simple but persistent question: what happens when we look closely at colour, and allow it to unsettle the timelines and certainties that art history often depends on? Again and again, colour seemed to move otherwise - slipping sequence, thickening the present, opening onto queer ways of inhabiting time.

Artists on Time is a space for writing that stays close to the experience of looking, even where language begins to falter. The essays gathered here move between periods and media, following the affective lives of images and the ways surfaces register duration, devotion, and change. I return often to moments when vision exceeds description: when colour refuses to stay still, when sacred images bear the residue of touch, and when the past presses unevenly into the now.

This space is also an experiment in writing imperfectly and in motion. Language cannot always hold what vision makes possible, but it can trace its edges, its afterimages, its slow dispersals. What appears here does not aim for closure. Instead, it moves with the ebbs and flows of colour as it weaves through time - provisional, attentive, and open to being otherwise.

Alongside this work, I teach, collaborate, and work in gallery and visitor experience contexts, with an ongoing commitment to making art history more accessible, more porous, and more responsive to different ways of seeing.