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Cover Image: CAD image of Domiciliary Dental Unit allowing dental care to be taken to those who are too ill or frail to travel, Scott Maguire (Product Engineering, 2003)

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Friends’ Travel Bursary Fund We√come Friends of of Art have established a travel bursary, which will be awarded Welcome to Issue 4 of Flow. for the first time during the next academic year. There will Since the last issue, the GSA’s new website (www.gsa.ac.uk) has been recognised, at a national level, with a be either one award of £500 Gold Award from HEIST ( Information Services Trust). The awards were established in 1988 or two awards of £250. The to reward and encourage good marketing practice in further and higher education, with winners seen as bursary fund currently stands the benchmark within education marketing. at just over £16,000. If any members of Friends can help Other nominees in the website category were Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent increase it to £20,000, to enable School of Art and Design at NTU and De Montford University. three bursaries to be awarded In this issue Alan MacAskill talks to GSA staff Alastair Macdonald, Sandy Page and Sally Stewart about each year, Friends would be very happy to hear from them. the School’s involvement in the critical issue of inclusive design and how, like sustainable design, it has Contact them at become of paramount importance in the fields of design and . [email protected] In Nesta Pioneers we celebrate the success of two 2003 graduates, Sarah Raffel and Neil McGuire, who or on 0141 353 4788. were the only two Scottish-based graduates to participate in the first NESTA Graduate Pioneer Programme, GSA Enterprises established to provide graduates with the support they need to launch new business ideas. The tours and shop were very Professor busy last summer and the company’s six month accounts showed a £15,000 increase in profits. As a result, the company gave the School a cheque for £30,000 as part of its annual financial contribution.

In Memory of… Hugh C S Ferguson, 1936 – 2003 Architecture and Planning, 1950s

Judith Gilmour, 1937– 2003 Ceramics, 1958

Alexander Goudie, 1933 – 2004 Drawing & , 1955

CONTENTS PAGE Jan Houstoun (neé Bruce), 1924 – 2003 Welcome 2 Drawing & Painting, 1946 Making Waves 3 John O’Connor, 1913 – 2004 GS≤A News 6 Former visiting lecturer Inclusive Design 7 at the GSA

NESTA Pioneers 10 Brian Parnell, 1923 – 2003 GS≤A News 12 Former Head of Planning Alumni News 13 at the GSA Development News 14 Events 16

Published by: The , 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ Telephone: +44 (0)141 353 4500 www.gsa.ac.uk Edited by: Kate Hollands Copywriter: Alan MacAskill of Carter Rae Communications Design: Third Eye Design Print: Beith Printing Printed on: 90gms Inter Offset © The Glasgow School of Art, 2004 An electronic version of this publication is available at www.gsa.ac.uk If you require a copy in an alternative format please contact the Marketing & Development Office on: 0141 353 4710 or at [email protected]

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1 Jonathan Saunders Collection 2 Jonathan Saunders

Making waves

THE GSA ACTS AS A SEEDBED FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS WHO WILL SHAPE THE , AND THE WORLD, OF TOMORROW. WE TALK TO JUST A FEW OF THEM:

The GSA makes a huge contribution to the Name: Jonathan Saunders cultural, social and economic life of Scotland Degree: Textiles, 2000 and its national and international reputation. Current role: Managing Director, Jonathan Saunders Ltd. The GSA contributes culturally: > By helping to transform Glasgow from a grim How did studying at the GSA help you in your post-industrial city to a vibrant cultural capital. current role? > By establishing the reputation of Glasgow, I started in Product Design, but I transferred to Textiles and Scotland in general, as a worldwide centre in 3rd year. That was really good for me, as I didn’t for the visual arts. do fashion or textiles in school, but it always interested me. The course let you do whatever you were passionate The GSA contributes socially: about. While it was still a very technical course and good > By making sure that the GSA buildings, for obtaining the printed textile skills required, it was also collections, Summer Schools, exhibitions and very ideas-based. The facilities and the technicians who classes are not only available to students were there at the time were fantastic. In comparison with and staff – but are also accessible to the many institutions the facilities available to the students public as a whole. were top notch. > By encouraging students and staff to interact and work with the local community. If you have such a thing as a typical day – what is it? > By educating generations of people to Working non-stop! Juggling working on a new collection, understand and appreciate arts and culture. the production of the new collection and looking after the business side of things with my partner, Samantha. Within The GSA contributes economically: this I have to find time for the consultancy work with > By helping to fuel the creative industries design houses like Chloe and Alexander McQueen. in Scotland through its graduates and through its research and innovation. What’s your favourite memory of the School? > By developing graduates with highly refined The girls that I graduated with who were great. There creative skills and abilities. GSA graduates don’t was a really strong relationship between people on all the only become artists, designers and architects. different courses. It makes you more broad minded. You They also become successful business professionals, weren’t really pushed into a particular aesthetic. It set me 1 community leaders, civil servants, up for going to St Martin’s, which is completely cut-throat. teachers and government ministers. What contribution do you think the GSA makes to Glasgow, the nation and beyond? It is totally vital. It deservedly has an international reputation. The combination of the setting, building and the importance that the city puts on the creative fields makes it irreplaceable. I’m glad to say that I did my degree there.

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3 Imaginarium toy store, Barcelona airport, Design Ministry, 2004 Photo: Chris Brown 4 John Cameron 5 Tony Power Photo: Kevin Ellis 6 Dancing Diamond Bracelet, Cox and Power Photo: Studio X/Tim Kent

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Name: John Cameron Name: Tony Power Degree: Graphics, 1974 Degree: Silversmithing and Jewellery, 1976 Current role: Creative Director for Design Ministry, Current role: Director, Cox and Power, Jewellers. a multidisciplinary design studio based in West London.

How did studying at the GSA help you in your How did studying at the GSA help you in your current role? current role? It gave me a broad introduction to Art. I very nearly majored From the start, there was encouragement to provide strong in Product Design rather than Graphics and, subsequently, skills-based training. It was a given that if you were to be this background in three dimensional design has served me a designer you had to deal with materials. What was nice very well. The design business is increasingly competitive was the School then encouraged you to go off and be and these days we are just as likely to be doing interior creative with those skills. There was also a very friendly, design as packaging or print. yet competitive atmosphere.

If you have such a thing as a typical day – what is it? If you have such a thing as a typical day – what is it? A typical day in London starts with at least an hour My main role is as a creative goldsmith, so I spend a lot of sorting through e-mails. About 80 per cent of our business time developing new ideas and and being involved comes from outside the UK so I’m often travelling or in the production side of the business. As a director I’m preparing to present abroad. This might sound glamorous also involved with strategy meetings with partners. We’re but, since the advent of cheap jet travel, we are just opening a new store in Marylebone, so I’m also in the increasingly expected to do more for less, and day trips middle of briefing architects and getting that going. to Barcelona or Madrid are not uncommon. Perhaps only 20 – 25 per cent of my time is spent designing these days. What’s your favourite memory of the School? Client management, new business and admin take up the Absolutely the first day! Arriving at 17 years of age rest. I’m big on creative efficiency though, and make it a and just walking into this unbelievable building that policy that everyone goes home at a reasonable time even was saturated with creative culture. I had freedom if we are working on a pitch. for the first time and felt absolutely at home there.

What’s your favourite memory of the School? What contribution do you think the GSA has made They’re more to do with socialising than study, like when to Glasgow, the nation and beyond? Pete Kirk in Product Design organised a ‘Wild West’ fancy I think designers from the School have a tremendous dress party involving dancing girls and a bar room brawl using self belief. It has been at the centre of the city’s creative trained stunt men. He fooled most of the audience and almost renaissance and there are lots of GSA designers and artists started a real fight. On reflection I don’t think I appreciated in key positions around the world. the architecture as much as I do now. I remember, however, my first year studio in the top west end of the Mackintosh building had the most spectacular views over the city; it was like working in the ramparts of a castle. “THE FOUR YEARS AT THE GSA TAUGHT ME TO ALWAYS LOOK What contribution do you think the GSA has made FOR NEW WAYS OF DOING THINGS, AND THAT IS WHAT I to Glasgow, the nation and beyond? I come from the generation that witnessed the death rattle NOW TRY AND ENCOURAGE OTHER PEOPLE TO DO.” of heavy industry on the Clyde. If that teaches you anything it is that you better be investing in skills that can’t be undercut from abroad. The skill needs for this millennium are based on technology, information, innovation and ideas. GSA’s contribution to Glasgow and the nation is to create the best environment possible to create intellectual wealth. Whether Scotland or the UK has the right commercial conditions to capitalise on that wealth afterwards is another matter.

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7 rubadub Reinvented, Credit: 2fluid_Creative 8 Jacqueline Doherty 9 Dark House, Bafta award-winning interactive website for the BBC, Creative R&D BBC New Media, 2004 10 Matt Locke

“I HAD FREEDOM FOR THE FIRST TIME AND FELT ABSOLUTELY AT HOME...”

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Name: Jacqueline Doherty Name: Matt Locke Degree: Printed Textiles, 1994 Degree: Photography, 1994 Current role: Managing Director of 2fluid_Creative, Current role: Director, Creative R&D, BBC New Media a design and technology agency.

How did studying at the GSA help you in your How did studying at the GSA help you in your current role? current role? It helped me with creative thinking in business. Glasgow was an incredibly exciting place to be when thing was done on a shoestring, with artists sleeping at I was at , and there was a real sense that you friends’ houses, and equipment begged, borrowed and If you have such a thing as a typical day – what is it? could do anything if you fancied having a go. That ‘can-do’ stolen from all over the place. Actually, I remember we There isn’t one, but I do, typically, have to travel a lot attitude has stayed with me in all the jobs I’ve had since borrowed a slide projector from Transmission, and it got between my studios in Barcelona and Glasgow and I often I left the GSA. My current job is about helping people stolen before the show even opened – I had to go to the also have to travel constantly across Europe seeing clients. across the BBC think about the future and how they can Barras that weekend and pick up a replacement on the It sounds glamorous, but sometimes you just want to stay approach problems from new perspectives – the four years cheap. Kirsty Ogg, who was on the Transmission board at home! at the GSA taught me to always look for new ways of at the time, was, fortunately, very understanding. doing things, and that is what I now try and encourage What’s your favourite memory of the School? other people to do. What contribution do you think the GSA makes Getting accepted into the GSA was the highlight. I had to Glasgow, the nation and beyond? dreamed about getting into the School for years. I also If you have such a thing as a typical day – what is it? It makes a very public contribution, which is evident absolutely adored first year – you had a variety of I manage a department which is working with New Media in the amount of GSA artists you see at international introductions into all these creative processes. production teams across the BBC, so most of my week is festivals and on awards shortlists like the Beck’s Futures. spent in meetings and answering email. I have to work hard Hayley Tompkins, who was in my year at the GSA was What contribution do you think the GSA makes catching up with what they’re all doing, and making sure on that list this year. But I think it also makes a huge to Glasgow, the nation and beyond? they’re on the right track. I also manage to get involved contribution by turning out hundreds of students every It’s got a very good international reputation. However, in projects that I’m personally interested in – I’ve invited year who have had an incredibly stimulating, exciting and while it’s an achievement to be accepted and graduate, Professor Larry Lessig over from Stanford to talk about diverse education. They don’t all go on to be artists, but it’s very much up to the individual to do what they want intellectual property and digital distribution, and this has they take the energy and perspective they gained from when they leave. Art is very subjective, what is one man’s led to the BBC looking for ways of releasing its archive of the GSA and find uses for it in all sorts of unlikely places. meat is another man’s poison. TV and radio online. So my average day is lots of meetings punctuated with the odd bit of glamour – I’ve got a meeting at No 10 Downing Street this afternoon...

What’s your favourite memory of the School? The people. Because the art school was bang in the middle of the city, it was very easy to get mixed up in all sorts of plans and schemes that were going on. I helped organise exhibitions in derelict warehouses, put on a truly awful performance project at a church in the west end, dj-ed on the radio, even helped a friend make a short film that was partly shot at a house in London that used to belong to one of the Rolling Stones. Most of these things were of very mixed quality as artworks, but the experience of trying to pull things together with friends was fantastic. The one project that sticks in my mind is Doppelganger – I had a drunken evening with a friend in Mainz, Germany, and foolishly agreed to bring over an exhibition of Glasgow artists. I ended up organising an exchange show with an artist-run space over there, and showed the German artists in the Old Fruitmarket in the . I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, so the whole

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1 Ahoy Kawaii, Lorna McCaw, 3rd Year Textiles, Fashion Show 2004 Photo: Alan McAteer 2 Josh Reid receiving the Duke of Hammerman Award from HRH Princess Anne Photo: George Mahoney 3 Hebridean Village, wall hanging, 1950, E Lounsbach GSA Archives

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Congratulations to: GS≤A NEWS Dean Hawkes > Silversmithing & Jewellery Dean Hawkes has been students who took part in the appointed Honorary Professor Worshipful Company of to the School of Architecture. Goldsmiths Young Designer- Website is Award Winner From 1979-93 he was the Silversmithing Award 2004, in The new GSA website has won the HEIST Gold Award 2003 Director of the Martin Centre competition with 8 other UK in the website category. The HEIST Awards is an annual for Architecture and Urban Colleges. It is the fourth time in competition that aims to encourage and reward good Studies at the University of recent years that GSA students practice in the marketing of universities and colleges. Cambridge, one of the leading have won the award. It has also been short-listed in the Scottish Design Awards research centres in the field of Helen Gaffney won First website category. This external recognition of the quality architecture. He was on the Prize with a commission of of the site is a reflection not only of the hard work done panel of the Science and £3,000 for her large celebratory by everyone involved in its development but also its on- Engineering Research Council; silver condiments. In addition, going updating. the Scientific Committee for Tessa Kelly gained joint third www.gsa.ac.uk the World Renewable Energy prize and Abigail Percy and Congress; the editorial board Catherine Fraser were both Fashion Show Comes Home of the Architecture Research commended. Tomorrow’s fashion elite showed their wares at the GSA Quarterly and has been an The finished pieces will be Fashion Show 2004 which, once again, underlined its architectural assessor for the presented to Glasgow City reputation as the place to spot future design talent. Arts Council of England. Museums at the Burrell Gallery Over 60 pieces of work featured in the show, held in the in October. Assembly Hall upstairs in the Student Association Building. Brian Sherwood Jones It was a glorious homecoming for the show, which has Brian Sherwood Jones has > Third Eye Design, the been held at over previous years. been appointed an Honorary design agency behind Flow, Thanks to sponsors Rainbow Room International, Mandors, Professor to the Digital Design which was recently voted Oddbins, Colour Network, 999 Design and Heather Cream Studio. Brian has been working runner-up in the Robert Horne who put their names behind tomorrow’s fashion in the field of Ergonomics for Scottish Design Consultancy of superstars. Roll on 2005! 30 years, combining practical the Year 2004. 1 application to complex systems with applied research. > Josh Reid, fifth year Product He will be helping to promote Design Engineering student, the use of Human Centred who received The Duke of Design at the Digital Design Edinburgh Hammerman Award Studio and assist with issues from HRH Princess Anne at such as the evaluation of a ceremony in London. prototype concepts.

> Colin Porteous, Senior The State of the Real Lecturer in Architectural The two-day conference, The Science, who has been awarded State of the Real, was hailed a Personal Professorship at The as a great success. Keynote Glasgow School of Art from papers from Professor Slavoj Glasgow University. 2 3 Zizek and Professor Linda Nochlin set the tone for the > Three students from New Deputy Director Textiles Online conference, which looked into Architecture who entered the The School is pleased to announce the appointment of a Access to the GSA’s textile collections has been vastly the past and the future of RSA student exhibition this year new Deputy Director/Director of Academic Development. improved through the School’s participation in the academic criticism. Subjects and scooped all three prizes. Allan Walker is the current Vice Principal Academic at Scottish Textile Heritage Online project. ranged from art/design The students involved were Wimbledon School of Art where his responsibilities include The project, led by Heriot-Watt University with the conservation, cinema, ‘the See Tech Yeo, who won the developing and implementing strategies on learning and GSA as a partner and funded by the Scottish Museums body’, digital manipulation Standard Life Investments, teaching, research, widening participation, IT and digital Council, has been cataloguing and surveying textile and haptic technologies to the Property Investments media. He is also leading the preparations for Wimbledon’s collections throughout Scotland for inclusion in a expected subjects of realism in Architecture Award which is a Quality Assurance Agency Institutional Audit. His collections database now available at painting and photography. travel award and links in with a experience at Wimbledon provides a close fit with the www.scottishtextiles.org.uk As a final note of success, day visit to Sir Norman Foster’s requirements of the GSA post and this means he will be GSA’s textile collections date from 16th century Manchester University Press office in London. James Taylor able to “hit the ground running” when he joins us. embroidery through to textile works by students, is to publish a collection of won the Chalmers-Jervise He will join the School officially at the beginning of June. graduates and staff including , Robert articles from the conference Award for drawing and Nigel Stewart and Kath Whyte. The GSA collections are cared as an anthology. Murray won the biggy that for by GSA Archivist, Sarah Hepworth and are recognised is the RSA Architecture Prize as being of national importance. for the best architecture For further information, contact Sarah at student submission. [email protected] or on 0141 353 4592.

Centre for Advanced Textiles presentation at SHEFC CAT was invited by SHEFC to make a presentation, representing the Creative Industries, at their Research Development Grant (RDG) and Strategic Research Development Grant (SRDG) Seminar in Edinburgh in February. The theme for the event was Effective Project Management with the purpose being to exchange information, share ideas and best practice and ensure that projects are well managed and supported by their respective lead institutions. With over 200 delegates, the event was attended by vice-principals, senior research managers, project managers and financial managers.

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Main image Inclusive two-way emergency refuge communication device, David Froggatt, Mike Anusas, Wendy Howard with Buro Happold, 2004 inclusive design

The world of design and architecture is currently undergoing a paradigm shift towards making objects and buildings more accessible and usable for everyone. A multi-national debate – the GSA is very much involved.

> The ageing population in the western world requires Staff at the GSA are at the forefront of research in this new methodologies for thinking about how to design area. Professor Alastair Macdonald, Head of Product Design products and buildings: whether you identify the process Engineering – a course run jointly between the GSA and the in American terminology as ‘Universal Design’, ‘Design for – is an internationally renowned All’ or name the process through its British moniker: expert in the field of inclusive design and is just one of the ‘Inclusive Design’. members of staff widening the scope of research. In 2003 But what is ‘inclusive design’? Put simply, the primary and 2004, Alastair was invited to Ritsumeikan University in aim of this design approach is to make all products and Kyoto to run a Masters level course on the subject and, for environments as user-friendly as possible for as many the third time running, he will chair the international review disparate groups of people as possible – regardless of age, committee for the ’s Helen Hamlyn ability, or situation. Research Centre’s Include Conference. >

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1 Concept for children’s everyday 3 Access House for Homes for the wheelchair designed to encourage Future, Glasgow 1999, Mike Anusas play, David Froggatt (Product Design (Product Design Engineering, 1997) Engineering, 2003) and James Anwyl (Product Design, 2 Access House for Homes for the 1997) Future, Glasgow 1999, Mike Anusas Photo: Ian McMurray Photography (Product Design Engineering, 1997) 4 Concept for children’s everyday and James Anwyl (Product Design, wheelchair designed to encourage 1997) play, David Froggatt (Product Design Photo: Ian McMurray Photography Engineering, 2003)

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> What Alastair and his colleagues have found is that, However, Alastair is keen to point out that inclusive “Design is providing a bridge between people’s needs, in addition to being a preferable method of designing, design is not just about designing for the ageing and desires, capabilities and what technology can offer. In inclusive design has become a social imperative and, disabled populations. It’s also about addressing the needs fact, many new technological developments are very therefore, a political issue. “If we don’t tackle this we are of as many different types of people as possible. “We all interesting because they are much more flexible, going to be left with an awful lot of dependent people,” have different ability profiles. These models are more adaptable and responsive. says Alastair. “At present the vast majority of our products applicable and more relevant than older paradigms.” “As we model people in a qualitative sense – where and environments are not designed to accommodate a And it is not just the postgraduate research students everyone’s individual needs are different – technology’s wide range of people, so it makes economic and political that are being encouraged to design with a universal view potential to address the issues through appropriate design sense to embrace inclusive design. in mind. “We encourage students to think about what the is a very interesting area for us to look at.” “We must ask ourselves: how strategically is Scotland needs of the world and the community will be five, 10 However, for inclusive or universal design thinking thinking about this? The Glasgow School of Art has a and 20 years from now. to become part of every designer’s vocabulary, research tremendous tradition of design and this is one of the new “Students are designing inclusive products like insulin institutions must lobby for more funding. “It is vitally relevancies for the 21st century. We should be re-thinking delivery devices for diabetics and a macular degeneration important that we present our research in more what the new priorities are for design and architecture. device to counter the effects of failing eyesight. unfamiliar arenas in order to acquire more funding. I believe one of these is inclusive design.” “They are also addressing mobility issues with a design There must be a new attitude,” argues Alastair. According to Alastair, postgraduate students within for a portable electronic golf buggy that fits into the boot Indeed, Alastair makes a comparison to the strides Product Design Engineering are looking at how all of a car and has a separate battery to transport golfers made since sustainability first became an issue with demographic groups can benefit from good product design. round the course – a design which may, of course, have design, almost 30 years ago. Inclusive design, like “The department is forming a core of expertise in inclusive applications outside the sporting community!” sustainable design, could become part of the vernacular. design issues. PhD student Chris Lim is working with NCR Designing such items, adds Alastair, means there “Sustainable design is now part of everyone’s thinking and Glasgow Museums, looking at the reasons for barriers will be increased opportunities for GSA students post and is part of the civic structure. The same will happen to the adoption of new technologies for older people. graduation. “What’s interesting for someone who is with inclusive design; it will become just another facet “Another PhD student, David Loudon, is being funded involved in design education is that, although we are of how we think about society’s needs.” by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council focusing on inclusive design as an area, the tools and And it is not just the School of Design where inclusive for its Extending Quality of Life programme. He’s looking methods are applicable across the design board. design is being championed. Another area of the GSA that at how the capabilities of old people change and is “While the ‘inclusive’ focus is driving certain areas is very much in the vanguard is the Mackintosh School of designing a software tool to help designers take this of research, its applicability is relevant throughout the Architecture. Sandy Page, Director of Graduate Studies into account.” whole design arena and has ramifications for the design and Sally Stewart, Head of Undergraduate Studies, have of almost everything.” had major joint-research successes in this area. Alastair says that today’s designers are more and more aware of the need for universal design solutions, and technology is an important tool in the realisation of their problem-solving designs. Academia also has its role to play.

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5 CAD image of Domiciliary Dental Unit allowing dental care to be taken to those who are too ill or frail to travel, Scott Maguire (Product Design Engineering, 2003) 6 Concept for inclusive airport check- in desk using biometrics, Gemma Teal (Product Design Engineering, 2004) 7 Portable golf buggy to assist rehabilitation, Victoria Leggatt (Product Design Engineering, 2001)

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Along with Mary Marshall, Head of the Dementia “What we’re finding is that universal designers are Services Development Centre at the , addressing similar issues to those we consider the standard 7 Sandy and Sally have produced briefing documents points to keep in mind when designing for dementia. and audit tools for developers of care homes for “We believe that all public buildings could be dementia sufferers. improved if their design incorporated the issues we are “Back in 1999 when we held the Just Another Disability addressing – for instance, looking at various aspects of Conference, Sally and I discovered there was no common doors and corridors to make them more identifiable so resource against which architects could test their designs you know what is behind each of them. That would not for care homes. And, along with Mary, we decided to look just be better design for people with dementia, but better at dementia more closely.” design full stop.” Sandy and Sally produced ground-breaking briefing Like Alastair, Sandy believes that architects are tools for developers, including Tools for the Future,a beginning to take on board a more inclusive approach strategic brief and audit tool for houses and flats where to design as a matter of course. Alastair sees it as a people with dementia live as a group supported by staff. continuation of making buildings sustainable. “This strategic brief and audit tool will help anyone “From an architectural view, sustainability isn’t just planning to design or refurbish a building for people with about environmental issues. It’s also about making sure dementia. It also provides the tools to audit existing your building can be used for the longest time possible buildings for dementia friendliness,” adds Sandy. by the most people. If it lasts longer and works better, However, it was while looking at the issue of dementia it is by its very nature a more inclusive and better, more that both Sally and Sandy realised there was common sustainable design. Architecture should always have been ground between design for dementia sufferers and inclusive like that.” GS≤A design. “We soon realised that there’s a whole network of people working on different aspects of disability. “We found that there was more common ground than we thought for disabled people and we should not be “WE MUST ASK OURSELVES: HOW looking at the specific disabilities, but from a more generalised view. This meant we wouldn’t have such vast STRATEGICALLY IS SCOTLAND gaps between a normal building and one designed for people with mobility or impaired vision problems. THINKING ABOUT THIS?”

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1 Provocation, Brooch, 2004 Sarah Raffel nesta pioneers

The creative industries are being lauded as a future powerhouse of the UK economy – and the Graduate Pioneer Programme for NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) was launched to give art and design graduates the support they need to launch new business ideas. With an intake of just 30 in its first year, the GSA was the only Scottish institution with successful applicants.

> Launching a new business when you have no track- “We look for graduates who are extremely talented, This ability to ‘do things differently’ makes arts record is hard. When your idea is related to art or the have an interesting new idea, and who demonstrate an graduates interesting entrepreneurs but, according to creative industries, it can be near impossible. entrepreneurial spirit with real get up and go.” Hugo, their innovative business ideas are still regarded as According to Hugo Manassei (Product Design, 1995), As part of an intensive recruitment drive, Hugo risky in the eyes of many banks and investors. “Investors Director of the Graduate Pioneer Programme, this must attended every degree show in Scotland, but only two try and make decisions by prescribing destinations, so change. Art school, not business school, is where the graduates from north of the border made it onto the they can imagine whether it’s worthwhile making the entrepreneurs of tomorrow are being nurtured. course: GSA graduates Neil McGuire (Visual investment. However, at NESTA we recognise that “The creative industries are fast becoming essential Communication, 2003) and Sarah Raffel (Silversmithing sometimes you have to invest in beginnings, not just drivers to the UK economy,” argues Hugo. “Estimated to and Jewellery, 2003). the final destination.” contribute almost eight per cent to our Gross Domestic “Studying at the GSA, I became aware of how The other successful applicant from the GSA, Sarah Product, the sector’s worth has grown by eight per cent branding companies worked and came up with the idea Raffel, plans to open Brazen Studios along with fellow GSA per annum between 1997-2001; far more than the 2.6 of doing things a bit differently. NESTA was the first alumna Marianne Anderson. A Glasgow-based gallery, it per cent average for the rest of the economy. organisation to help me put this new idea into practice,” will also integrate a workshop that will support new talent “To retain this growth and build on the global lead the says Neil. His company, Offbrand, finds innovative ways and cater for the more perceptive jewellery consumer. UK has taken in this market, we need to invest in the next to inspire customers who have grown tired of traditional Sarah was one of 11 graduates of the Pioneer generation of creative pioneers,” says Hugo. “We need brand appeals. Programme to be awarded a loan of £35,000, making to find the individuals who will design new types of “One of the main things Offbrand is trying to do is it not only an eye-opening experience but also a companies and create new markets. The Graduate Pioneer bring creativity, as it is understood in art schools, into business lifeline. Programme aims to do just that.” businesses and organisations. The idea of being creative “The first two weeks at Wroxall Abbey were very Despite such compelling figures, a poll commissioned and exploring what that means is key to the Offbrand intense, with lots of advice and help from like-minded by NESTA reveals that traditional business angels or idea. I also think that creative industries are too often business people. There were talks from people like David venture capitalists are unwilling to invest start-ups by arts seen as the sole torch bearer for the economy, but it is Puttnam and Ruth Turner; listening to them was just graduates. Surveying the views of 94 UK venture capitalists, actually creativity applied across all kinds of industries amazing. Then, in week three, we were encouraged to it found the vast majority were unwilling to back creative which is the way forward. A lot of companies and do the talking and start making business decisions industries. Despite their demonstrated high-growth organisations are engrossed in the idea of brand and for ourselves.” potential, only one in five would back such a new business. how it can be brought about in process. It’s really about Having completed the Programme, both Sarah and To improve these odds, the Graduate Pioneer escaping a formulaic approach. Smart organisations are Neil say that one of the major benefits has been the Programme provided a three-week intensive course for looking towards a buyer-centric – rather than seller-centric opportunity to mix with other like-minded arts graduate 30 recent art-school graduates from across the UK. – model of business,” he says. “Offbrand offers a way to entrepreneurs. achieve that by replacing current brand thinking.”

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2 Containment, Brooch, 2004 5 Sarah Raffel Sarah Raffel Photo: Ley Maudsley 3 Graduate Pioneers 2004 6 Neil McGuire Photo: Dominick Gigler Photo: Ley Maudsley 4 Guantanamo, Neil McGuire

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“I initially found meeting 30 talented people all at > As Flow went to press Neil was working on Offbrand once incredibly daunting, but there wasn’t a single ego concepts for a number of potential clients and Sarah in the room. Everyone just got on with it. I’ve met some and Marianne are currently viewing suitable premises great people through the academy, many of whom we in the hope of getting Brazen Studios up and running plan to work with at Brazen Studios,” said Sarah. by Autumn 2004. Neil agrees, adding: “A major benefit has been meeting people from so many different creative > Contact Neil at [email protected] backgrounds. There’s always one person [from the course] and Sarah at [email protected] who you can call if you need assistance. NESTA is creating a community of entrepreneurs from the arts.” > Applications for Graduate Pioneer Programme 2005 For Hugo, this is exactly the purpose of the open from 7 June 2004 to early October. Programme. “Peer to peer support is one of the most important elements. This mirrors the way art schools > www.nesta.org.uk are structured. Within the Programme we emphasise the community and try to nurture it.” This community will only get bigger. With an intake of 40 next year and 30 business loans of £35,000 up for grabs, the GSA’s graduates will hopefully benefit yet again. GS≤A

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1 Metaphors, Ken Garland, Atrium Gallery 2004 Photo: Stephanie Black 2 Russian memorabilia in Berlin, Chris Heaney, 4th Year Visual Communication 3 Signing of the China Joint Course Agreement at the GSA Photo: Alan McAteer

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Ken Garland GS≤A NEWS The Artists Who Fell The renowned graphic designer to Earth gave an inspirational lecture to Bowieart, the on-line gallery complement the exhibition of funded by David Bowie, is to his work Metaphors shown in New Textile Course hold its annual exhibition in the Atrium Gallery in February. A new course has been launched in the School of Design for motivated textile graduates who wish to further extend London in 2005 to promote Ken very generously fitted in a their design handwriting by developing and resolving their textiles as either fashion or accessory products. bowieart.com. visit to the fourth year Visual The MDes in Textiles as Fashion is an advanced skills postgraduate programme designed to meet the ambitions www.bowieart.com is one Communication students' of textile graduates who wish to inspire and assert fashion from the ‘Textile-outwards’ – as opposed to the of the most visited show in the Newbery Gallery ‘Silhouette–inwards’. websites and the GSA has the to discuss their work. The basic rationale behind the course is the increasing visibility of graduates in the fashion industry accolade of being one of only and how they are now beginning to enjoy the same public recognition once reserved for ‘orthodox’ fashion graduates. two institutions outside Coco Fusco Textile graduates such as Matthew Williamson, Eley Kishimoto, Julian Macdonald and, more recently, Jonathan Saunders London and New York Coco Fusco, a New York based are helping to dispel the notion that textile design and are separate activities within the same industry. currently on the site. Two MFA artist and scholar of repute, It is not a ‘conversion’ course intended to re-train textile designers as fashion designers, but sets out to produce graduates, Ruth Barker and gave the keynote address at visionary designers who work through embroidery, print, knit, weave or decoration to create fashion. Raul Ortega, have been chosen this year's 2nd Year Historical Enquiries should be made to Julia Nouillan, Senior Registry Assistant, on 0141 353 4517 or at [email protected] to show their work at next & Critical Studies Study Day. year's exhibition. This event is for second year students only but Coco also Viva Mexico gave a one-off Friday Event Last year's MFA Degree Show, talk in conjunction with the first shown at , School of Fine Art. Glasgow, runs at the National Coco Fusco is the author of Centre for the Arts, Mexico English is Broken Here: Notes on City until 31 May 2004. Cultural Fusion in the Americas For more information please (1995) and The Bodies That contact [email protected] Were Not Ours and Other The exhibition is part of Writings (2001). the Mexico/Scotland Year supported by the British Exhibition space Council. The British Council has City Park is a new office also established, in partnership development behind a Grade B with the GSA, a one-year listed façade on Alexandra 1 2 scholarship for Mexican Parade, Glasgow. In order to Absolutely Souper students who wish to study attract visitors and guests to The students of Visual Communication have launched an at postgraduate level at The the building, City Park is online magazine, called Soup. The first edition is on the Glasgow School of Art. offering to host an art theme of ‘pattern’ which may be interpreted widely, from For more information, exhibition within the vast visual repetition to more conceptual themes such as please contact entrance hall or one of the pattern of sleep or behaviour. The publication can be [email protected] unlet areas. In addition there viewed online at www.soup-du-jour.net is an attractively landscaped courtyard, which would complement sizeable outdoor Mackintosh’s Masterwork Explained . Contact Jane Beck A new edition of Mackintosh’s Masterwork: The Glasgow on 0141 551 1060 or 07703 School of Art, edited by William Buchanan, has been 472294. published. 3 Including contributions from experts Professor Andrew Kathleen Mann MacMillan, William Buchanan and Dr James Macaulay and The Exhibitions Department is China Joint Course over 200 colour and black/white photographs, the book trying to locate existing works Preparations for the proposed Joint Course with the Central attempts to answer some of the questions any informed by Kathleen Mann (Head of Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing are progressing well. visitor might ask. What was Mackintosh’s professional Embroidery at the GSA in the An outline agreement was signed in Glasgow on education? What were the sources of his complex 1930s) for inclusion in a future November 13 and the aim is to sign the final agreement symbolism? What were the financial details behind catalogue essay. This is not a in May in Beijing for a September 2005 start for the building the art school? And were the School’s governors call for loans. We are asking new course. happy with the final result? friends and supporters of the This joint first year course will be delivered at CAFA in The publication sets the background from which GSA to contact us with Beijing with the programme of study developed by the Mackintosh emerged, and makes an invaluable sourcebook information as to where works GSA and delivered by them and CAFA academic staff. to a great building. may be located (public and 20% of the course will be English language (and the course To celebrate the publication of this new edition, we private collections). All will be taught in English); 20% theory and 60% studio. are offering readers of Flow the chance to buy a copy at information would be Students who successfully complete each of the three the special price of £15 (normal price £20). To order a gratefully received and treated strands of Year 1 will articulate into Year 2 in the schools copy, please contact: The Mackintosh Shop, The Glasgow with confidentiality. of architecture, design and fine art and will complete their School of Art,167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ. Tel: Please contact Kathy degree programme at the GSA. The GSA will take 0141 353 4526 or email [email protected] Chambers or Gráinne Rice approximately 40 students each year. on 0141 353 4525 or email [email protected] or [email protected]

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1 Design developed from an electron micrograph of freshwater plankton, 2004, Natalie McLeod 2 St Tropez Sailing, oil on canvas, Peter Graham

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Congratulations to: AlUmNI NEWS > Alison Watt (Drawing & Painting, 1988) who won a Creative Scotland Award. The >BRIEFING Ideal World Peter Graham award, of £30,000, is for work Ideal World, Scotland’s largest production company, Peter Graham has been elected as Vice President of on creating ‘a flawless cube’. Emma Latimer founded by (Graphic Design and The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). Peter ( Emma Latimer (, Illustration,1979), has merged with Wark Clements, the and Stained Glass, 1980) has, since leaving the GSA, > Hayley Tompkins (MFA, 2000) has been working as independent production company founded in 1990 by earned a reputation as one of Britain’s most successful 1998) who was nominated for a voluntary art teacher in Kirsty Wark and Alan Clements. The merger brings together modern colourists. the Beck’s Futures Award 2004. Bolivia at the Tanga Tanga two of the most influential couples in the Scottish media The ROI, formed in 1882, boasts a long line of Children’s Museum. The and creates a company with a turnover of £20m. illustrious artists who have exhibited in their annual shows > Christina McBride (Fine museum is interactive and including Sickert, Lavery, Wilson Steer, Dame Laura Knight, Art, 1990) lecturer in First encourages children to Chicken and Egg Ann Redpath and Rodin. Year Fine Art, who had a explore cultural ideas. It offers Natalie McLeod (Textiles, 2003), has been working as a Peter hopes his appointment will encourage more solo exhibition, entitled educational workshops and Designer in Residence in collaboration with the Centre for Scottish painters to bring their work to a wider audience An Appropriate Place, in provides families with health Advanced Textiles and the University of Glasgow Veterinary and enter the annual exhibition held at The Mall Galleries the Miller/Geisler Gallery, services for infants. School. The Poultry Research Unit at Glasgow University is in London every October. Alongside the major prizes there New York. Emma was the inspiration an award-winning centre with an international reputation are a number of awards for oil painters under thirty years behind a recent joint for its work on eggshell quality in birds and reptiles. of age. > Ralph Cowan (Design, exhibition with Yorkhill Working with images from their scanning electron For more information contact The Mall Galleries, 1949) who was 100 years old Hospital and Bolivia. microscope, Natalie has produced a series of digitally 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD. on 10 January. Ralph attended printed textiles, which will be exhibited at The Lighthouse Telephone: 020 7930 8644. the GSA from 1946 – 1949 QEST until 30 May 2004. www.mallgalleries.org.uk and produced plays for the QEST scholarships are designed GSA Student Association. to help craftspeople of all ages further their careers. Twice > Lesley Punton, (Fine Art, a year, scholarships ranging 1992) lecturer in Fine Art from £2,000 to £15,000 are Photography, who exhibited awarded for further study and in the College Art Gallery, New training. If you are interested York, in a show entitled Images in this project / opportunity, of time and place: please contact The Secretary, Contemporary Views of Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Landscape. The show ran from Trust, 1 Buckingham Palace January to early May and Road, London SW1E 6HR. included the work of around www.quest.org.uk 40 artists.

Third Eye Design > Brian Cairns (Visual Jamie Young and James Greig Communication, 1986) both Visual Communication, who is one of only three 2003 graduates, are two people to have been awarded recent and highly regarded one of this year’s Gold Medals additions to the staff of Third 1 2 by the New York Society of Eye Design. Illustrators – out of some Acclaimed Works to Adorn Parliament 6,000 entrants. Brian’s winning Tactile Govan Some of Scotland’s most acclaimed artists, including a number of GSA alumni, are to have their work displayed in the new work is now up on show at Alec Keeper (Fine Art parliament building when it opens later this year. the society’s Upper East Side Photography, 1993) has Reading like a GSA Who’s Who, Edinburgh-based art consultants Art In Partnership, has recommended work from some Gallery in New York. initiated Tactile Govan – of the best-known names in Scottish visual art and photography, including , Alison Watt, Ian Hamilton a pilot study to explore the Finlay and Thomas Joshua Cooper. > Frances McCourt (Fine potential for a tactile heritage An abstract oil on canvas by Alison Watt, entitled Flexion, has been specially commissioned by the art group. Christine Art Photography, 2002) experience in Glasgow, fully Borland, shortlisted for the in 1997 and another of the GSA’s female stars, will have her installation Small who has published a accessible to both sighted and Objects That Save Lives on show in Holyrood. photography book called partially sighted audiences. Photography is also to play a crucial part in the new parliament, with a number of spaces in the building given over Greenlands: Exploring Rural Results of the study will be to photographic essays. One, by GSA Research Fellow, Thomas Joshua Cooper, uses six images from Lewis and Harris to Landscape. Funded by the RIAS exhibited in June, and will highlight extreme weather conditions in Scotland. Millennium Award, Frances’ display examples, a working Reaction from the art world has been favourable. Sir Timothy Clifford, director-general of the National Galleries of project had a strong process, proposals and Scotland, said: “It seems to me that they have been choosing wisely and buying things of high quality. As far as I’m community element; she support. For information, concerned the more art there is the better.” organised field trips to allow please contact pupils from her former school [email protected] to photograph the buildings selvedgeººº and surroundings of Correction A new magazine has been launched by GSA alumna, Polly Leonard (Embroidered & Woven Textiles, 1989). Polly, who was a farms with the results In Issue 2 of Flow in the article previous editor of Embroidery, has a vision - a society where textiles in all forms command respect and admiration equal compiled into a publication Rising Expectations it was to any other creative discipline. The new magazine - selvedgeººº - a magazine of quality in its writing, design and use of that highlights contemporary reported that Gallery Contact photography is a beautiful object in its own right. The publication’s inclusive approach should offer the textile community rural landscapes. Greenlands (now Brazen Studios) received a chance to broaden its horizons. is available from the RIAS a £3,000 grant from the To receive a free copy of the sample issue contact selvedgeººº, 14 Milton Park, Highgate, London, N6 5QA. bookshop, the CCA, local Scottish Arts Council. Sadly, Tel/Fax 0208 341 9721 or e-mail at [email protected] libraries and good bookshops. this is not the case and we apologise for the error.

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>YOUR ALUMNI Development at the GSA has two aims – to further the School’s reputation BENEFITS! as one of the UK’s pre-eminent creative institutions and to develop and enhance the School’s relationships with its alumni and friends worldwide. > Membership of the GSA Library at 50% of the usual annual charge.

Next Generation Auction Returning the Favour > Invitation to the Our auction of alumni work raised over £17,500 to help provide The GSA has always been able to provide scholarships to a small number Degree Show. scholarships across the GSA. Held in November 2003, nearly 100 alumni of students and the Next Generation Fund will enable us to provide donated work including artists Alison Watt, Peter Howson and John more. Our current scholarship funds are modest: to help them > Copy of Flow twice a year. Lowrie Morrison, textile designer Patrick Ryan and jeweller Eric C Smith. grow, are you in a position to ‘pay back’ the scholarship you received? A huge thank you to all alumni who donated work. If you are one of the many people who, over the years, have received > Assistance with locating a scholarship from the School and would like to ‘pay it back’ by making alumni for reunions. Next Generation Fund a donation to the Next Generation Fund, please contact Scott Parsons. Raising funds for scholarships is essential if the School is to attract the > 10% discount in the best students based on talent, ability and potential and not social or Remembering the GSA in your Will Mackintosh Shop and online. financial measures. Two donations totalling £45,000 have so far been Legacies large and small are very important to the future of the GSA, GSA Enterprises will donate a received this year which, together with the funds raised at the auction, providing funds to create general endowments, scholarships, new further 10% of the purchase will contribute to our target of securing £200,000 for scholarships this buildings and assist with refurbishment and new initiatives across the value to the Creative Futures year. If you would like to make a donation to the Next Generation Fund, School. By leaving a legacy to the GSA you will be helping an institution Fund (please let Kate Hollands please contact Scott Parsons, Head of Marketing and Development that has pushed the boundaries of creativity for over 150 years. know if you intend to make www.gsa.ac.uk/scholarships Legacies are a lovely way to make a contribution beyond one’s own a purchase in the shop). lifetime and, in doing so, there are some practical benefits for you and New Focus for Department your family through exemption from capital gains tax. If you would like > Discounts in Millers Art At the end of 2003 the Development and External Relations Office to discuss leaving a legacy to the School, please contact Scott Parsons. Shop. To take advantage merged with the International and Home Recruitment Office to create www.gsa.ac.uk/legacies of this offer contact Kate a new department responsible for all aspects of the GSA’s relationship Hollands who will provide with the outside world. The new department – Marketing and Donors you with GSA verification. Development – is responsible for areas such as student recruitment, The School likes to recognise the many alumni, friends, companies, Show this at Millers Art Shop fundraising, press and media relations and our publications and website. trusts and foundations who have supported it over the past year. at the GSA or in Stockwell The department’s focus is increasing the number of international We are extremely grateful to them for their support (see opposite page). Street, Glasgow to receive students at the GSA at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, your discount. raising funds for scholarships and sharing with the world the successes For more information contact the Marketing and Development team: and achievements of the School, its staff, students and alumni. > Scott Parsons, Head of Marketing and Development on > The Arthouse Hotel in Bath Marketing and Development brings together six existing staff with +44 (0)141 353 4698 or at [email protected] Street, Glasgow, is offering two new appointments – Liz Breckenridge as Publicity Officer, > Kate Hollands, Development Manager – Alumni and Fundraising on special rates until 31 December responsible for publications, promotion and the website, and +44 (0)141 353 4788 or at [email protected] 2004, to anyone affiliated to the Ivan Hutchins as International Student Welfare Officer, responsible for GSA. You can book a standard providing our international students and students on international room for £90 and a junior suite exchange with the best help, advice and support possible. for £135. Ask for Paul O’Donoghue, Sales Manager. Alumni Ambassadors The GSA will be represented at the following overseas recruitment events in 2004. If any alumni in these areas can offer some time to come along and help out at the stand it would be greatly appreciated – no one can promote an institution as well its former students. If you can help, please contact Ian Thomson on +44(0)141 353 4404 or at [email protected]

Japan Canada Korea 1 – 3 Oct, Tokyo 14 – 15 Oct, Ottawa 23 – 24 Oct, Seoul 9 Oct, Osaka 16 – 18 Oct, Toronto 26 Oct, Busan

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> Individuals > Trusts & Foundations Mr Roger Ackling American Friends of Glasgow School of Art Mr Kenneth R M Adams The Alma and Leslie Wolfson Charitable Trust Mr Malcolm S Allan Bellahouston Bequest Fund Mrs Janette Anderson Buchanan & Ewing Bequests Miss Freda M Blackwood Coats Foundation Trust Mrs Ailsa Blair Commonweal Fund, Trades House of Glasgow Dr Nan Blair Cruden Foundation Ltd Mr Anthony J Brooke The D W T Cargill Fund Mr Mark S Brunjes Friends of Glasgow School of Art Mrs Catriona Campbell Hope Scott Trust Mr Ian S Campbell The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation Mrs Dorothy M Crawford The Hugh Fraser Foundation Miss Sorcha Dallas Incorporation of Bonnetmakers and Dyers, Glasgow Mr Alexander T Dawson Incorporation of Hammermen, Glasgow HEIST GOLD Ms Winnie De'Ath Incorporation of Skinners, Glasgow Mrs Marla S F Drummond Incorporation of Tailors, Glasgow AWARD WINNER Mr John S Forrest Incorporation of Weavers, Glasgow Ms Christine Hamilton The John Mather Charitable Trust Miss Claire Harkess The Robert Hart Trust Mrs Janet M S Houstoun The Robertson Scholarship Trust Mr Kenneth A Johnston The Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Mrs Eileen Kesson W M Mann Foundation Mr Don J Kinloch Mrs Jean M Kirkpatrick > Companies Mrs Theresa F Kirkwood Artstore Mr Nick Kuenssberg Bonhams Mrs Muriel Macaulay Bute Fabrics Mr James Macaulay Ceramic Tile Distributors Mrs Rosemarie MacLeod Clydesdale Bank Mrs Elise Macrae Enterprise Food Group Mrs Valerie J B McLachlan Gordon Yuill and Company Mrs Joan M Milroy Hely Hair Studio Mr R Lindlay Nelson Hoegaarden Mr Scott Parsons John Watson Printers Mrs Margaret M Pollok Mandors Mr Mark O Querfurth McGrigors Mr Philip Reeves Miller’s (The City Art Shop) Ltd Mrs Jean F Rennie Oddbins Ms Michelle Scragg Orro Mrs Christine E Shaw Rainbow Room International Mr Fred Shedden Standard Life Bank Colonel David Sherret Mr Alan N Stewart Mr Willison Taylor Mr Peter C Warden Mr Richard Weaver

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1 Drawing, 2004, Cecilia Stenbom, First Year MFA 2 Gnatcatchers, MDes Prac Textiles as Fashion exhibition

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The Glasgow School of Art Atrium Gallery Degree Show Kathleen Mann Embroidery Design 1860 to the Present MDes Prac Chris Lefteri: 19 – 26 June 2004 13 Sept – 29 October 2004 Day: Bonhams Auction (Textiles As Fashion) A Thirst for Materials The Glasgow School of Art Kathleen Mann is one of the 15 – 20 November 2004 5 – 29 May 2004 9 Nov – 4 December 2004 Degree Show is one of the key figures in the history of (dates to be confirmed) 10am – 8pm (4.45pm on Fri) 10am – 8pm (4.45pm on Fri) most significant art events in teaching at The Glasgow Design and decorative art Work in progress exhibition of This exhibition is an assembly of the City. This annual exhibition School of Art and the exhibition and auction by the Masters programme at the materials, compiled in a format of final year work from Fine exhibition comprises of her Bonhams Auctioneers, GSA – dispelling the notion to inspire and trigger creative Art, Architecture, Design and drawings, publications and Edinburgh. The sale will that fashion and textiles are connections for new designs. the Digital Design Studio can embroidery panels. She include works by artists and separate activities within the be seen in most buildings on worked at the School between designers such as Charles same industry. For further information the GSA campus. The MFA 1930-33 and was spoken of Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and opening times please Degree Show will exhibit at as a ‘breath of fresh air’. Macdonald Mackintosh, Robert Trotter: contact the Design Office Tramway, Albert Drive, Glasgow. Kathleen’s publications Margaret Gilmour and From The Crowd on 0141 353 4589 or email were informed by her travel other Scottish factories 30 June – 7 September [email protected] For more information throughout Europe in the and designers. 10am – 8pm (4.45pm on Fri) The gallery is located on please contact the early twentieth century and The photographs of Robert the ground floor with Marketing and Development were greatly influential. Beagles and Ramsay – Trotter show the curious disabled access. Office on 0141 353 4710 or Unrealised Dreams contrasts and striking similarities email [email protected] Artists – Working in the Nov/Dec 2004 (dates tbc) of public life in the streets and Podium Gallery medium of education Beagles and Ramsay present a open spaces of Glasgow and For more information about Mackintosh Gallery and management series of new drawings, related New York. exhibitions in the Podium Interim MFA 4 – 29 October 2004 maquettes and prototypes of Gallery contact 15 – 28 May 2004 (dates to be confirmed) plans, proposals, diagrams and Clydesdale Bank ‘Art for All’ [email protected] Mackintosh and An exhibition of work by projections for future 5 – 30 October 2004 Newbery Galleries Glasgow School of Art staff artworks. These Unrealised 10am – 8pm (4.45pm on Fri) The annual exhibition from which sets out to celebrate Dreams cover a wide range of Pupils from across Scotland first year students of the the artistic richness of the projects from proposed public show their work from the one postgraduate Master of Fine School of Fine Art by sculptures to elaborate day art and design workshops Art course at The Glasgow presenting a cross-section of Regency wigmaking, outlines given by staff from the GSA and School of Art. Graduates from the work produced by staff for movies and theatrical funded by the Clydesdale Bank. the course continue to have a and curated by Head of productions and hybrid Second year pupils have significant presence in the School, Professor Klaus Jung. mongrelised self-portraits. This attended workshops in contemporary art scene in the show deals with the recurring architecture, ceramics, drawing UK and beyond, and notable Contemporary themes in their work: food, or textile design. alumni include Roddy Mexican Artists consumption, mortality and Buchanan, Simon Starling, 1 – 12 November 2004 grotesque self-representation. Ross Sinclair, , (dates to be confirmed) Joanne Tatham and Tom For press images or more O’Sullivan. information about exhibitions and opening Terra Nova II times in the Mackintosh or 12 July – 10 September 2004 Newbery galleries, please Terra Nova provides an contact Kathy Chambers on excellent opportunity to 0141 353 4525 or email revisit some of the best [email protected] Degree Show work from this or Gráinne Rice on 0141 353 year’s graduating students. 4538 or email [email protected]

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