In 2008, Wall Street crashed. (This is relevant, stay with me) In September 2008, all hope was lost, and the financial crisis reached its summit. This had begun in 2007, slowly, then all at once. Mass unemployment, skyrocketing house prices, and generally a financial world that was now unrecognisable, and one that here in 2026 we can agree has never truly healed.

Back in 2021/22 I almost completely stopped voluntarily listening to music. Not out of protest or as some kind of mindfulness practice, but because the sheer amount of music available to me, combined with my mental health at the time (like a lot of people, the post Covid years were dark ones), meant that I couldn’t listen to a song all the way through without skipping it. It was compulsive. Even songs I liked didn’t make it all the way through to the end.

The refusal to properly teach the arts means entire generations will grow up believing creativity is not for them, or worse, believing they themselves are not creative. Which is ridiculous because everyone can be creative. Yes, even you, even if you think you can't. Creativity just doesn’t always look the same, and that is one of the first things you learn when you are given the opportunity to engage with the arts. It teaches you there is no right way to think, make or expres

A deadly serious, not-at-all-satire guide to surviving - no THRIVING - in your 20s

My entire life I’ve struggled to know what my purpose is. Whenever I imagined my future it was never my career I pictured. I didn’t lie awake at night dreaming about a job title - I was picturing dinner tables, growing old with friends and a house full of people I loved. But the one thing that I was never sure of was what I wanted to spend 90% of my life actually doing.

There is a particularly awful feeling that comes with not being able to do the thing you love in the way you used to.

Our SPLINTR 2025 Documentary, GXRLS MAKE GLASGOW: From Fragments to Festival is officially live.

As I approach yet another February 14th single, and begrudgingly try to write a hinge prompt that carefully balances my intelligence and subtle sense of humour, I find myself reflecting on why I’m finding it so hard to fall in love.

Although you may be unfamiliar with the term ‘photomontage’, you’ve likely come across it, or unknowingly participated in creating one. The term ‘collage’ has a much wider reach — and, though the two art forms are related, photomontage refers to a collage that solely uses images, as opposed to a wider ensemble of mixed materials.

As we head into a new year, we want to take a minute to look back on everything we achieved in 2025.

We can’t believe it… in less than a week we’ll be opening the doors to SPLINTR Festival - our first ever festival as Flos Collective CIC.

Here’s the truth: running a grassroots collective isn’t an easy ride. There’s no big pot of money, no corporate sponsor footing the bill. It’s us - juggling jobs, scraping by and putting every bit of energy we have into keeping Flos alive.

Running a grassroots arts collective is basically one long game of dress-up. Except instead of fun costumes, it’s metaphorical hats - and we seem to collect new ones every week.

We're opening SPLINTR Festival with an Open Mic - and you're invited to take the stage.