Martin Glover is a deaf British Sign Language (BSL) user, architect, and art facilitator. He leads tours and workshops across the UK on contemporary art, architecture, street art, public art, and sculpture.
His role in the tour
For the August 16, 2026, tour at the South London Gallery, Martin will be the BSL guide for Encantados by Paulo Nimer Pjota and Sacred Groves by Ranti Bam. The tour will be conducted directly in British Sign Language and will last approximately one hour.
His role is not simply to translate a tour already prepared in English. Martin guides the public through the interpretation of the works through BSL, offering a visual and spatial reading of the exhibitions. His experience as an architect and art facilitator is particularly significant in exhibitions that explore the body, matter, landscape, spirituality, and the environment.
It is also important to note that we should not automatically define him as a curator or interpreter: sources present him as a Deaf BSL user, architect, and art facilitator, as well as a specialized tour guide.
A possible passage for the article
Martin Glover is a Deaf BSL user, architect and art facilitator whose tours move across contemporary art, architecture, street art and public sculpture. At South London Gallery, he will lead the visit in British Sign Language, creating a direct route into Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Encantados and Ranti Bam’s Sacred Groves. His role is not simply to translate the gallery’s language, but to open another way of reading the space — through movement, visual attention and embodied interpretation.
Martin also runs Digitspace, a project dedicated to promoting better access to the visual arts nationwide