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Cover Image: 1 POTR Pots Image from Splendour, a collaboration 2 Andr ew Flynn and Martin Keane between Textile Design, Fashion Design and Silversmithing & Jewellery at the GSA, commissioned by the Royal Museums Greenwich. Left: Asia Przytarska – bonded paper nylon coat, white cotton smocked dress; Michelle Currie – silver, 3D printed nylon, copper, enamel, ink, synthetic ruby. Right: Caitlin Fraser – black cotton wadded jacket; Giovanna Cordez – stainless steel washers and aluminium. Photography by Jens Masimov

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Graduates in Glasgow We√come Glasgow is the best city in Making waves Europe for new university graduates, according to a Welcome to Issue 22 of Flow, our magazine for the GSA’s Creative Network. study from career experts At the GSA we pride ourselves on In this Issue we take a closer look at GSA’s Creative Network. Spanning all disciplines, our network Resume.io. Key factors the success of our students and represents a multitude of industries across 95 countries – mobilising and connecting one of the largest, most including salaries, rent prices, graduates and we do not want any diverse creative communities. On page 12 graduate Rosie Roberts introduces the work and ambition of our cost of living, the presence of other graduates in the city new Creative Network initiative – a fresh way of working with and connecting across our student, graduate achievements to go unnoticed. and cultural events were all Creating links for ideas to develop, and industry networks on a local and global level. In our regular Making Waves feature we speak with some taken into consideration in members of this global network of graduates and showcase the leading edge businesses they have founded. the study, which ranked 32 accomplishments to be recognised You can find more of our graduates’ stories and businesses on the GSA’s Live Map and by connecting with European cities in total. As of and creative endeavours to grow GSA on LinkedIn (details below and opposite). 2019, 59% of GSA alumni stay Our Creative Network is both global and local, connected and collaborative. Our cover story, The Power in Glasgow after graduating, is at the heart of our Creative and The Splendour looks at a powerful UK-wide collaboration between adornment and fashion and the wider making a huge contribution to Network initiative. creative community. Meanwhile on page 8 Harriet Simms, our Community Engagement Officer, examines a the cultural life and creative economy of the city. Read on to find out about local partnership between GSA, St Aloysius Church and its English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESOL) resume.io/blog programme to produce a powerful exhibition, Refuge Garnethill, sharing the local refugee and asylum seeker some of our alumni working in the communities’ experiences of home, heritage and community. Places of Creative global creative industries, and join I hope that you enjoy this issue of Flow, and its glimpse into our community’s cultural, social and Production our Linkedin community to stay economic impact and reach. GSA hosted its third Places connected. of Creative Production event With very best wishes, in October, in collaboration linkedin.com/school/ with Glasgow Life. The event, the-glasgow-school-of-art entitled Glasgow’s Creative Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam Ambitions, was held at The Director Lighthouse, and explored 1 The Glasgow School of Art a range of questions and opportunities facing Scotland’s creative sector. The event Andrew Flynn + Martin Keane What was the inspiration behind POTR Pots? welcomed speakers and MEng Product Design Engineering, 2014 Andrew: Plant pots have stayed much the same, in terms delegates from the worlds of Founders of POTR of design, for centuries. Our light bulb moment came the media, visual arts, music, when we discovered the environmental impact of AI, design, architecture, the What attracted you to the Product Design delivering items such as plant pots, by van, is around 100 public sector and academia. Engineering (PDE) programme at the GSA? times more polluting than posting an item in an envelope. placesofcreativeproduction. Martin: I’m not the best at drawing and had never This led us to designing a plant pot that would fit in an com thought of going to art school. At the University of envelope and can be posted through your letterbox. As Glasgow Open Day, one of the tutors convinced me product designers, we not only look for new product Search for a new Director that PDE was much more my thing. opportunities, we also look to define new ways of making GSA has begun its Andrew: I enjoyed both art and science at school, which products. POTR is a simple product which allowed us to international search for a made the decision between studying engineering (and show it was possible to make an environmentally friendly permanent Director, a process getting a “reliable job”) and studying at art school really product locally in the UK using materials sourced in which is being led by the difficult. Luckily for me, I also discovered PDE at an open the EU. Contents ∂ ONLINE Board of Governors with day and learnt it was possible to combine these two skill the involvement of staff, sets. I now think it’s almost impossible to separate the What was your reaction when your Kickstarter Welcome 2 Facebook students, alumni and external two: being an inventive engineer requires creativity campaign secured 4250% of your initial target, /glasgowschoolofart stakeholders. “We are seeking and to be a successful product designer you need to generating £25,512? Making Waves 3 2 Flickr someone who is passionate understand how things work. I can’t imagine having Martin: We have a lot of pots to make! In all seriousness GS≤A News 6 /glasgowschoolart about creative education studied anything else! though, as well as being ecstatic we were somewhat Refuge Garnethill 8 Instagram and who understands the overwhelmed at both how well the product had been @glasgowschoolart crucial importance of The Can you tell us a bit about your work in the industry received and the realisation that we were going to have What advice would you give a student with a new The Power and The Splendour 10 Linkedin Glasgow School of Art both after graduating? to scale our production plans. product idea? The Creative Network 12 /school/the-glasgow-school-of-art to Glasgow, one of the world’s Martin: After graduating I was at Hewlett Packard for Andrew: Don’t be afraid to share your ideas with others! Creative Network News 14 Twitter leading creative cities, and to three years working on app development and UX design, What are your ambitions for the future of POTR? We used to keep ideas totally secret in case someone @GSofA Scotland,” said Professor Nora before finding my way back to physical design at Dyson. Martin: We want to show that it’s possible to create an tried to copy them, only to find out a year down the line Events 16 Vimeo Kearney, Chair of the Board Both are big corporations so start-up life and being in innovative, modern brand based on sustainable principles. that it wasn’t such a great idea after all. You refine an /glasgowschoolofart of Governors. Professor Irene charge of the company’s direction is a big change. As product designers we feel we have a real responsibility idea so much by sharing it and when you see someone The Hub McAra-McWilliam will stay in Andrew: I moved to Munich directly after graduating to to ensure that the products we are creating are not get excited by what you have shown them; it gives you Keep up-to-date with goings-on in all departments of the post as Interim Director until complete a fixed term industrial design contract at future having a negative impact on the environment. Ultimately, the energy to keep going. GSA with our social media aggregator: www.gsa.ac.uk/thehub a permanent appointment transport specialists Bauhaus Luftfahrt. On return to the we want to build a brand that people love, reach new is made. UK I worked initially for start-up incubator Radial Labs in audiences and partner with like-minded retailers to potrpots.com the Whisky Bond before moving to Bristol to work as an ensure every house plant gets a greener home. POTR has Published by: The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom G3 6RQ. Telephone: +44 (0)141 353 4500 www.gsa.ac.uk industrial designer at Dyson. It was only a matter of time a good roadmap of products ahead and we’re excited to Edited by: Kirsty L Barr and Claire Biddles Copywriting: Kirsty L Barr and Claire Biddles Design: Noë & Associates Printed on: 90gsm Tauro before Martin and I started collaborating and POTR Pots reveal them to the world! An digital version of this publication is available at www.gsa.ac.uk/flow was formed. If you require a copy in an alternative format please contact the Marketing & Communications Office on: +44 (0)141 353 4710 or [email protected] Charity Registration Number: SC012490. © The Glasgow School of Art, 2019.

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3 Atypical Cosmetics packaginge 7 Sarah Hobstetter 4 Marw a Ebrahim at the 2019 “GETTING A PRODUCT TO MARKET CAN SEEM 8 Izakaya restaurant Scottish Edge Awards Image credit: Alison Cristiana 5 HOKO Design team 6 Danny Campbell LIKE A MAMMOTH TASK AND MY FIRST PIECE Image credit: Ali Olivier of Shaka Visuals OF ADVICE WOULD BE TO JUST GO FOR IT AND START DEVELOPING.”

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Marwa Ebrahim Sarah Hobstetter BDes Product Design, 2017, MSc International Danny Campbell BA (Hons) Painting, 2005 Management and Design Innovation 2018 Bachelor of Architecture, 2012 Founder of Hobstetter Architecture Founder of Atypical Cosmetics Founder of HOKO Design

What made you decide to study Product Design? it lived on a sticky note on my bedroom wall for a few What made you decide to study Architecture What is HOKO design and why did you decide What was your background before you came to GSA? Could you give an insight into the type of projects I was always fascinated with the process of developing years before I finally decided to pursue the idea and at GSA? to set it up? I am from San Francisco, where I currently live. My father you have worked on since setting up Hobstetter new products. As customers, we are often presented with develop it into a business. I grew up in Helensburgh, not far from Hill House, so HOKO Design is an architecture practice providing is an architect and I remember him being interested in Architecture in 2013? the final polished product but don’t get to see how that Mackintosh was always nearby and discussed at school. services to residential homeowners for extensions, Mackintosh when I was young. I didn’t initially consider My work ranges from architecture to fine art. I am currently product came to be. During my time at GSA, I gained a What are the core values behind the brand? I had offers from Strathclyde and the GSA but opted for renovations and new builds. We have reinvented the studying internationally and my university studies began at working on a cast brick prototype that integrates remain better understanding of the iterative, collaborative and Inclusivity, sustainability and creativity are our three core the GSA to test my design skills. I studied for my Part 2 in typical architecture practice model to focus on the client Brown in the US, where I took courses in philosophy and ashes into the concrete formula, to create new propositions human-centered approach to designing products and values. Traditional skincare companies still use a ‘one-size- Leicester but have a distinct pride in my GSA qualification journey and by doing so have seen a tenfold increase in fine art. I came to GSA as a part of the exchange program for sites of remembrance. Almost all of my projects are services. These are the same principles that I am now fits-all’ approach to skincare that makes it difficult for productivity – reaching 50 clients in 6 months – and some from Brown with the hope of expanding the arts aspect of unified by a relationship with creative culture, often through using to develop my start-up, Atypical Cosmetics. people to find products that suit their exact skin needs. What were the most important things you learned fantastic designs. I set it up in 2016 because I felt there my education. The practice-based approach and studio the project use or client. I recently completed a space for an We recognise that every person is unique and are on the programme? was an opportunity to provide families, the elderly and culture at GSA suited me, so I transferred in and completed experimental music venue called RS94109. We approached What were your first steps into the industry passionate about integrating modern technology with The crit process was really valuable. It is the nightmare individuals with a level of service they currently couldn’t the remainder of my degree in the Painting department. the project as a kind of architectural archaeography, peeling after graduating? sustainable materials and natural ingredients to create a scenario for anyone with imposter syndrome – you stand receive in an industry that is still shrouded in mystery. back the layers of construction to reveal patinas on the While studying Product Design, I became more and more new generation of smart, customisable skincare. Our first there in front of your peers and tutors with work that has How did you find studying in Glasgow? original riveted steel and brickwork and the patterns of the interested in designing and launching my own products product, a customisable moisturizing face oil, is natural, been changed up until the night before, sometimes hours What has been the reaction to the work you do? I’m from a city that was destroyed by an earthquake in materials that once concealed them. I’m currently working and services. After graduating, I did a masters in vegan and palm oil free. It is packaged in glass bottles and before, but it teaches you how to take rejection, tackle We’ve had a 100% satisfaction rate, we have yet to 1906 and rebuilt, mostly out of light frame construction. It on two homes: one for a photographer, and the other for International Management and Design Innovation to gain shipped in boxes made from 90% recycled materials. We opposing opinions and sell your ideas. receive a planning refusal and we are on track to take is a place preoccupied with newness. This made the sense of filmmakers. In these projects view, spatial sequence, and a better understanding of the business side of things. are working on integrating circular economy services into a number of new jobs to site in the coming months. history and weight in the buildings and streets of Glasgow framing become very important. Upon finishing my masters, I founded Atypical Cosmetics, Atypical Cosmetics as it grows. The predominant praise we are receiving is around the very unusual to me. The substantial heft of the bearing a skincare customisation company that uses artificial communication. Our website dashboard platform allows masonry buildings and integration of arts across the city in Would you say that in this way your fine art intelligence, natural ingredients and real user data to allow What are your ambitions for the company? clients to view every task we undertake on their project the craft and detail of Victorian stonework has an animistic background has influenced your approach to users to co-create customised skincare that suits their At Atypical Cosmetics, we want to create products that with a date stamp. They can also view drawings, pay quality. Working in the Mackintosh Building was magical. architecture? needs, lifestyle and allergies. During the last few months, celebrate our individuality. We’re all atypical and that’s “WE HAVE REINVENTED THE invoices and ask questions. I enjoyed the close and intellectually supportive friendships Some of the fundamental explorations in the discipline I have been working on designing and developing our a good thing. The beauty industry can sometimes seem TYPICAL ARCHITECTURE I developed with studio-mates, a few of whom I still speak of painting – form and void, light, and spatial perception – products and service and I am currently planning a obsessed with conformity, and I hope that Atypical What advice would you give a graduate looking with regularly, and who continue to influence my work. serve as organising principles to my work, whether it be art crowdfunding campaign that will launch on Kickstarter Cosmetics will help raise awareness of the fact that it PRACTICE MODEL TO to set up a business? or architecture. I’m currently working on programming in March 2020. doesn’t have to be that way. There are three things to consider before starting a Since graduating in 2005 you relocated back to exercises for a public sector health care project in San FOCUS ON THE CLIENT business and these aren’t things you can easily learn. California where you studied Architecture. How did Francisco. The spaces are crowded and resources for the What was the inspiration behind Atypical Cosmetics? What advice would you give a student wanting Do you take no for an answer easily? You’ll need serious you find the transition from fine art into architecture? hospital are insufficient. In our design we made the decision A few years ago, my skin reacted badly to a product that to get a product to market? JOURNEY AND BY determination to get through the initial learning curve and After graduation, I moved back to California to be close to to negotiate diffused natural light into the core of the plan I was using and I had to find skincare which was free of Getting a product to market can seem like a mammoth DOING SO HAVE SEEN faith in your business idea. Are you self-motivated? If you my family and took a job doing administration and graphic and locate circulation with a relationship to the building fragrances, alcohol and a list of other ingredients which task and my first piece of advice would be to just go for need pushing to complete tasks, then starting a business design in an architecture practice. While the work I was paid views in order to help patients locate themselves in space. I needed to avoid. Avoiding these ingredients proved to it and start developing. Speak to people, test your ideas, A TENFOLD INCREASE IN is not for you. You’ll have a track record of this quality to complete mostly included repetitive resume formatting, View and light can be subtle things that impact our be extremely difficult; looking through every product’s and collaborate with others to determine that what you’re if it’s in you – fortunately this comes hand in hand with one of the younger architects noticed a collage I created for impression of an environment, regardless of whether we ingredient list was tedious and time-consuming, and the creating addresses a market need or opportunity and do PRODUCTIVITY… ” being a GSA student. Lastly, what is your purpose? Is there a background texture of a pamphlet cover. He pulled me are readily conscious of the architecture as noteworthy. same ingredients often had multiple different names. I this continuously and iteratively throughout the something you feel so passionately about that you would aside to help after-hours designing textures for a building realised that there was no way of quickly and easily finding development process. Take on the challenges as they come, do it for free? Once you apply your purpose to a business facade. I came to appreciate the creative side of architecture hobstetterarch.com products with ingredients that suited my skin, and speaking and there will be many, but try not to get too caught up problem, you’ll be able to manage the learning curve as a social art form, something that gave reason to open- to other people, I realised that this was a wider issue faced with the minor details. Dream big but start small and and rejections. ended making. not only by people with allergies but also by people seeking don’t be afraid of change. skincare products with ingredients that are natural, organic hokodesign.com or vegan. Thus the idea for customisable skincare was born; atypicalcosmetics.com

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1 33 1/3 at Tax Hall 3 Studios in the Stow Building Image: Alan McAteer Image: Alan McAteer 2 All that can be seen can be adorned 4 Sur gical 3D-printing work by SEA graduate Kate Lingard by Lisa Ferrie

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The Yellow Paper Innovation School in Elgin New Lay Governors School of Fine Art back The MLitt in Art Writing Gs≤A NEWS Anderson’s care home in Five new Lay Governors have Gs≤A NEWS to Garnethill programme has launched Elgin has partnered with joined GSA’s board, following All departments from GSA’s The Yellow Paper, a journal the Innovation School on a a call for applicants earlier School of Fine Art are together for art writing edited by project supporting community in the year that attracted Trainee surgeon innovation at Graduate Degree Show 2019 in one building for the first Programme Leader Dr Laura connections by exploring the applications from across the GSA’s annual Graduate Degree Show was held in August, showcasing work from across the School’s diverse postgraduate time in decades, thanks to the Edbrook. The first edition, role of music in care homes. UK and Europe. The academics community. The work on display included an innovative research project by Lisa Ferrie, which could be used to greatly opening of the Stow Building launched at Graduate Degree Using expertise in design and professionals who joined benefit future kidney cancer surgeons. in Garnethill. The building first Show 2019, featured new innovation, the researchers the Board in November During her time on the Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy programme, Ferrie used 3D-printing technology opened its doors to visitors as writing by the first cohort of have been collecting stories 2019 are Kristen Bennie, Ann to develop and evaluate an anatomically accurate, low-cost surgical training model of a kidney with a tumour, which a venue for Degree Show in students on the programme, of care home life and have Faulds, Professor John French, was filled with hydrogels capable of simulating human tissue. Surgeons and trainees are able to use the model to hone June 2019, and in September as well as contributions from co-designed a programme of Dr Marty Herbert and Tsz their skills in robotic surgery. Her design, developed with the help of experts at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital 2019 welcomed students and Kate Briggs, Laurence Figgis, music activity in partnership Wu. Of the appointments, and the University of Glasgow, has the potential to generate a bigger pool of capable surgeons, and thus widen access staff to its studios, workshops Daisy Lafarge and Susannah with residents, staff, and Chair Professor Nora Kearney to the best available care for patients. and offices. The opening is Thompson, who all inputted volunteers. The programme said: “They are all highly- The Graduate Degree Show took place over five days at GSA’s Garnethill campus and the Tontine Building, significant as it brings the into teaching in the first year. took place in August, with experienced individuals, who with work across disciplines tackling urgent subjects such as sustainability and climate change. School of Fine Art back to The journal is available to a resulting exhibition will play a key role in shaping gsa.ac.uk/graddegreeshow2019 Garnethill for the first time purchase from Good Press showcasing the work held at the future of GSA including since the Mackintosh Building and Aye Aye Books. the care home in September. supporting the appointment fire in 2014. All specialist theyellowpaper.org.uk futurehealthandwellbeing.org/ of a permanent Director and, schools are now in the same bringing-communities-and- in due course, the rebuild of area, aside from the School of MEARU Social Housing care-together the Mackintosh Building.” SimVis which continues to be GSA’s Mackintosh gsa.ac.uk/governors based in the new media hub of Environmental Research 2019 Honorary Graduates Pacific Quay. Unit (MEARU) is partnering Two Honorary Doctorates Penguin Scholarship with Glasgow-based building were conferred at this Penguin has created a new SHIFT Summer School performance technology year’s Summer Graduation scholarship at The Glasgow GSA teamed up with the Royal company, arbnco, on a major Ceremony: to Andrew School of Art, named in Conservatoire of Scotland, 1 social housing initiative. The Whalley, recently appointed honour of its long-time Art Queen Margaret University initiative, which is supported Chairman of Grimshaw Director John Hamilton, and the Cultural Enterprise by funding from Innovate 300 records, 12 turntables, 12 amps, 100 SEA students Architects, and Sarah who died earlier this year. Office for SHIFT Summer UK, will explore how arbnco’s Students and staff from the Sculpture and Environmental Art department staged a recreation of John Cage’s 33 1/3 Drummond, Co-Founder and Launching for the academic School, a programme designed technology could be utilised on 1 November, as part of Mewantemooseicday 2019 – a day-long, Glasgow-wide celebration of Cage and Merce Managing Director of award- year 2019-2020, the John to help students and recent to improve the health and Cunningham. Originally performed in California in 1969, Cage’s 33 1/3 is a ‘portable music circus’ for 12 turntables and winning design agency Snook. Hamilton Scholarship will graduates make the move wellbeing of tenants in 250 – 300 records. The audience members are given no instruction, but are free to play any records they wish, creating Both Honorary Graduates support one student per from education into their social housing. an immersive sound installation. are alumni of GSA, creating year, as well as offering a careers. 60 participants took gsa.ac.uk/mearu For the recreation, students built plinths, structures and tables to house the record players and records, which ground-breaking work from paid internship in the art part for a week of workshops, were sourced from the local music community in Glasgow. Students also created a new kinetic sound sculpture, and New York and Glasgow department at Penguin breakout conversations, Castlehead Workshops performed choreography developed in workshops with Julie Cunningham. The event was held in the Tax Hall, a large respectively. Random House UK. Born creative activities, one-to-one 210 young people from space just off George Square in Glasgow city centre. grimshaw.global in Glasgow, John Hamilton clinics and guest speakers. Castlehead High School in Mewantemooseicday was initiated and developed by Victoria Miguel, in collaboration with GSA, The University of wearesnook.com studied illustration at GSA Paisley attended creative Glasgow and Glasgow Clyde College. It was inspired by and marks the 50th anniversary of Mewantemooseicday at the between 1982 and 1986, TV PhD 3 4 workshops at GSA over 4 University of California and is also part of the 2019 Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration. Newbery Medal where his degree show Mackintosh School of days in May, building on the Instagram.com/gsa33andathird Sculpture & Environmental Art consisted of a series of covers Foulis Medal New Professors and Readers Architecture PhD student Sean relationship GSA has with graduate Kate Lingard was the for imaginary books. Sound for the Moving Image graduate Adam Sloan has Three leading academics at GSA have been recognised with Kinnear has been selected as the school in developing 2019 recipient of the Newbery gsa.ac.uk/penguin been awarded the 2019 Foulis Medal. Adam’s work uses Professorships and a Readership, marking excellence in one of 15 academics from it as a Creative Academy. SimVis at Fingal’s Cave Medal, GSA’s highest honour real-world meteorological and ecological data from research and leadership. The Head of the MFA programme, across the UK to be awarded a The school is also hosting GSA and National Trust for Scotland’s work at Fingal’s awarded annually to the top DHI major investment observation sites on Orkney to create unique evolving Henry Rogers, has been awarded a Personal Professorship prestigious TV PhD residency a Portfolio Development Cave on Staffa was the subject of a BBC Radio 3 undergraduate student at The Scottish Funding Council, soundscapes, and was presented as an immersive sonic for his work in Contemporary Fine Art and Queer Studies. as part of Edinburgh Television Course taught by GSA Open documentary, The Virtually Melodic Cave, broadcast Summer Graduation. For her together with the Scottish sculpture at Graduate Degree Show 2019. All active Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie of the Innovation School has Festival. The scheme helps to Studio staff, offered to its own in June. The half hour programme focused on ground- Degree Show, Kate presented Government Health and elements of the sculpture, including bespoke speaker horns also been awarded a Personal Professorship in recognition bring early career academic students as well as those in breaking virtual reality work being undertaken by a multi-media installation of Social Care Directorate, is to and acoustic panels, were designed and built by Adam, of her research in the area of Design Innovation in the researchers to develop skills, other schools across Paisley. experts from the School of Simulation and Visualisation, casts, video and text pieces, invest up to £10 million in who plans to continue developing the work for public Creative and Cultural Economy. Elio Caccavale, also of make contacts and increase Funding from Future Paisley working in partnership with the Universities of Stirling which was praised by Heads Scotland’s Digital Health and exhibition and touring. the Innovation School, has been awarded a Readership in their knowledge of working and Renfrewshire Council has and Glasgow, responding to the cave’s significance in art, of School for its philosophical Care Institute (DHI). Launched “We are delighted that Adam has been chosen as the Transdisciplinary Design Innovation. within the television industry. enabled dedicated staff time literature and music. rigour. in 2013, DHI is a collaboration recipient of the Foulis medal this year,” said Programme In addition to these appointments, GSA has awarded Kinnear’s research investigates to drive this work and increase A team led by Dr Stuart Jeffrey have spent the last katefranceslingard.com between GSA and the Tutor Ronan Breslin. “We nominated Adam for this an Honorary Professorship to Product Design Engineering Cold War nuclear bunkers momentum to its rebranding three years creating the VR experience, combining visual University of Strathclyde, prestigious award knowing that his outputs throughout his alumnus David Law, the driving force behind California- remaining within the Scottish as Castlehead: School of imagery, soundscape and acoustic modelling to create a which focuses on new ways two years as a part-time student have been consistent in based Speck Products and Crucible Brands. Law is currently landscape. Creativity. virtual space that artists and musicians can use to create to manage illness and provide their excellence, and have shown unique and innovative CEO of Scotland-based Drown, a creator of audio gsa.ac.uk/phd new work inspired by the cave. The VR experience was care. DHI has amassed over use of advanced audio-visual techniques.” The medal, hardware. also the focus of a pop-up exhibition at Summerhall 60 project partners and a which is awarded to the top student graduating from gsa.ac.uk/research during the Edinburgh Festival this summer, co-presented portfolio of over 120 projects a taught postgraduate programme at GSA, was presented by the BBC. in the last five years. at Winter Graduation at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall gsa.ac.uk/simvis gsa.ac.uk/dhi in November 2019. 2 www.gsa.ac.uk/sound

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1 Reid Building, The Glasgow School 2 Refuge Garnethill exhibition at of Art, St Aloysius Church ESOL Fleming House students, for exhibition ‘Refuge Garnethill’ (2019)

“OUR NEW GLASWEGIANS ARE STUDYING IN ONE THE MANY HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THE GARNETHILL AREA. THROUGH THIS PROJECT WE WANTED TO GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO RESPOND TO THE BROADER HERITAGE OF THE AREA AND SHARE BOTH THEIR EXPERIENCES OF THE COUNTRIES THEY HAVE LEFT AND THEIR NEW HOME HERE IN GLASGOW.”

Kevin Wyber, co-ordinator of St Aloysius Church ESOL classes. 2

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This became the basis of a number of the The ESOL programme has been running since March 2016, supported and run by a students writing about their home countries and the experience of moving to Glasgow. dedicated team of volunteers. The classes take place each weekday during school term The design and curation of the exhibition was collaborative, with GSA Exhibitions and time, with an average of 45 – 55 students attending each day. There have been around 950 St Aloysius Church working together to decide on the structure of the exhibition and the students come through the doors since the project started – students attend classes for narrative of the exhibition through images and writing. It was important that the heritage GARNETHILL four to six months before moving on to college and beyond. The team of 35 volunteers aim of the area was shown. There was also careful consideration that the experience of the to teach the students first and foremost ‘survival English’ to help them engage with people students should be celebrated throughout the exhibition. and to get them up to speed with the language as quickly as possible. Students come from The exhibition opened at GSA’s Fleming House on Renfrew Street on 9 September 2019, This year, St. Aloysius Church and GSA collaborated on countries as widespread as Syria, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, with a preview that saw residents, local organisations and groups attend to congratulate Vietnam and El Salvador. the students on their creative work. The exhibition ran until 13 September before moving a project facilitating exploration of the rich heritage of The programme’s collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art started when Kevin to the Mitchell Library and The Tenement House throughout the Autumn months. Garnethill through the eyes of refugees and asylum seekers. Wyber, co-ordinator of St. Aloysius ESOL, approached GSA to see if there could be support Refuge Garnethill is the first large scale collaboration between GSA Community with production of an exhibition about the heritage of Garnethill. Through discussions, Engagement, GSA Exhibitions and a local organisation. GSA Community Engagement GSA’s Community Engagement Officer and Innovation this initial idea developed into a collaborative project between GSA Exhibitions, GSA started in November 2018 and has a focus on partnering and collaborating with local Community Engagement and the Church. The focus was to develop skills and self groups and initiatives in the Garnethill and Blythswood neighbourhoods. This year has School graduate Harriet Simms tells us about the origins confidence in the ESOL students through learning creative skills and photography, seen a number of projects and partnerships in the Garnethill area including the Garnethill as well as improving English skills through research and writing. Gaitherin’ event in Garnethill Park with Garnethill Community Council and Friends of of the project and the subsequent exhibition Refuge Working with photographer Betty Meyer, ten students attended six workshops over Garnethill Green Spaces (FROGGS), youth creative workshops with Central and West Garnethill, which was shown at GSA’s Fleming House July and August. Betty structured the workshops to be a photographic investigation into Integration Network and a Garnethill Potluck with CCA and The Project Café. the heritage of Garnethill, supported by exploring composition and different techniques in September 2019 and has subsequently toured to the each week. The students were encouraged to look into their own heritage whilst studying > For more information or updates about GSA Community Engagement, Garnethill and explore what home and heritage meant to them personally. One week please visit the microsite at garnethillcommunity.wordpress.com Mitchell Library and Tenement House. the students explored the architecture of Garnethill to identify well-known buildings and spaces, whilst another week the group explored the theme of community, comparing community life and sense of belonging in Glasgow to experiences in their home countries.

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1 Dress by Kirsten Webber (Fashion 3 Jumpsuit by Emma McGauchie Design); Jewellery by Elidh Farmer (Fashion Design); Shoulder piece (S+J) by Brigita Bivainyte (S+J) 2 T unic by Nicola Norman (Fashion 4 C oat and dress by Asia Przytarska Design); Chain piece by Celeste (Fashion Design); Jewellery by Chambers-Hill (S+J) Michelle Currie (S+J)

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ways which prioritise elements of agency through intimate and I of England, but that also anticipated a period of deep By bringing these outputs together, we see how image knowledge of their clothing and jewellery; questioning discontent, resulting in the eventual act of regicide, with the is a process of construction – and after all, the students’ accepted historical precepts of gender and power and death of James’s son, Charles I in 1649. historical inspirations deeply understood the importance challenging the conventions of historicised language. The material culture of decorative objects, entangled of what they wore, and how they wore it. Elizabeth I would What is a ‘Virgin Queen’ but a social construct, after all? within the lives of monarchs, reveal such knowledge have been nothing without her material trappings of power; Elizabeth I’s ambitious plans were continued by her and sentiment. In Splendour, materials are gathered and in choosing a deep red underdress for the event of successor, Queen Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort to together in ways that parallel these wider associations, her death, Mary Queen of Scots forcefully embraced the James VI of Scotland and I of England, who brought the while simultaneously offering a critique of display and symbolism of colour and luxury. Centuries later, I like to splendour of Scandinavian and German courts to Scotland, performance of royal privilege. Gold leaf, mother of pearl, think that these icons have stepped into the students’ and then to England in 1603. However, Anne’s patronage delicate iron lacework, and semi precious stones, are world, and they find it brave and new, and familiar. of Inigo Jones also contributed to a new Palladian austerity presented in the exhibition in architectonic constructions Within the Splendour project, my role has been that

1 2 in Britain, particularly in the design of the Queen’s House, that imitate and replicate the kinds of animated pleasures of observer and cultural heritage cheerleader, and seeing formerly the site of the Tudor Greenwich Palace. While that Queen Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort to Charles how it has made the students tick has been beyond rubies. creating elaborate costumes and sets for Anne’s complex I, expressed when she exclaimed the Queen’s House, In fact, the whole construction of the project has afforded masques, Jones was also inventing an Anglo-Italianate Greenwich, to be a ‘House of Delight’, as it was bestowed an alchemical process. Sitting in the lecture theatre during architectural form, exemplified by ‘composed ornaments’, upon her in 1629. Matilda Pye’s initial provocation – a rich lecture on how that would be forever identified with the unfortunate It is these associations that are foregrounded in this adornment and garments could and still construct identity Stuarts. Along with the Queen’s House, Anne commissioned project, Splendour, provoking questions and meanings – it occurred to me that these historical figures may not THE POWER AND Jones to create a classical portico to the vineyards at surrounding power and agency; who owns it and who be immediately familiar to many of the students. But as Oatlands, in Surrey, visible in her portrait by Paul van might speak it. they’ve explored their stories, they’ve found their own way Somer of 1617. Anne of Denmark’s desire for jewellery was to show that Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Anne of renowned but her aspirations in this regard were connected Dr Helen McCormack Denmark are names to conjure with. After all, these icons to her understanding of the power of jewellery to represent Reader in Art & Design History were all too human: along with power games and politics THE SPLENDOUR the power of a nation. During this period, when Britain came sexual politics, intrigue and bloodshed. The students pursued an expansive trade in precious commodities, and engaged with these (her)stories in a way that didn’t just The collaborative project Splendour, which took place in in enslaved people, the expression of supremacy was often > As an educator, I’m extremely interested in the speak to them, but shouted. through allusion to jewels. For example, in one of Anne’s type of pedagogical space that the Splendour project The exhibition of their work, and indeed the photo summer 2019, was a creative exploration of adornment and most controversial of staged performances, Masque of exemplifies. In it, the students were given significant shoot at Stirling Castle, showed exactly how powerfully Blacknesse, the performer remarks: freedom and agency, with the payoff being the creative the students have achieved this. They have wrested the fashion, as expressions of love, power and politics. space to construct a powerful individual and collective new from the historical by forging their own creative F or were the world with all his wealth a ring, experience. This is no small ask, and the teaching staff connections, and their visions are more powerful precisely Britannia, whose new name makes all tongues sing, involved have been extremely artful in communicating because they are utterly authentic to them. They’ve taken A collaboration between Textile Design, Fashion > Greenwich to Stirling to Greenwich: public imagination because of her identification with male Might be a diamond worthy to encase it… the value of working within one’s own discipline, but what they’ve gleaned from historical research, and injected Design and Silversmithing & Jewellery departments at Splendorous Impulses and Composed Ornaments characteristics; particularly in her claim to have the ‘harte sharing a learning journey with students from other energy: from the superbly abject qualities of a choker GSA, the project was commissioned by Royal Museums and stomack of a king’, in her famous address to troops The exhibition of work in Splendour surveys the disciplines who are exposed to the same set of themes and evoking the moment of Mary’s decapitation (and let’s face Greenwich with support from the National Lottery In her book, Women and Power: A Manifesto (2017), Mary at Tilbury in 1588. Beard’s point is that Elizabeth’s history Renaissance and Stuart courts of Scotland and England inspirations. As such, the sparkle of Splendour has emerged it, we’re always fascinated by the darker side), to textiles Heritage Fund, as part of the Armada Portrait Project. Beard describes how the public voice of women has been has been written and spoken largely by men. The queen’s through its most powerful female icons, renowned for their from an alliance of intent and curiosity, with Textiles samples that make smallpox pustules entrancing. What Outcomes from Splendour included a showcase and silenced over millennia by patriarchal structures that voice, body, manners, habits and language have been exuberance, luxury and excess. Situated within the royal students viewing what Silversmithing & Jewellery makers is more contemporary than being aware of change, of speakers at the The Queen’s House, and photographs in have extinguished female voices and actions. She chooses determined by male writers and have, subsequently, been estates of Stirling and Greenwich, two ‘elevated landscapes’ have done with intrigue and pleasure, and vice versa. The continuity, of transformation? the historical setting of Stirling Castle. Elizabeth I as just one example. A powerful and long- altered, tailored to the attitudes and circumstances of male with strong cultural, artistic and literary meanings, the photographic outputs from Stirling Castle show that these Dr Helen McCormack and Dr Thea Stevens reflect reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth I ought to signify a shift power over the centuries. In this project, which takes the students’ work reflects, perhaps, the tensions and unease of ways of working alongside pack a powerful punch, with the Dr Thea Stevens on the project, with accompanying images from Stirling in understanding women’s roles, historically, in public life. Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I as its starting point, students this period that ushered in a union of the crowns, between textiles, accessories and adornment finding a sensational Academic Coordinator: Interdisciplinarity Castle and The Queen’s House by Jens Masimov. For Beard, however, Elizabeth remains significant in the have investigated the ‘materials’ of female monarchy in Scotland and England in the form of James VI of Scotland foil in the garments made by students in Fashion Design.

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1 Hidden Gardens, Glasgow 2 Jamie Jefferson 3 Sam De Santis

“RESPECT AND KINDNESS ARE KEY METHODS IN ANY PRACTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED.” GRACE MARK

begin within and then are supported by the institution that immensely enjoy the students’ ideas and helping them find > Sam De Santis (Fine Art Photography 2012) fosters them. Current students can be pro-active in asking ways to make them thrive in the digital world. Creative Network Manager to be put in touch with graduates they would like to work So when Libby invited me to take part in a few Creative with through the Creative Network, hopefully establishing Network events, I jumped at the chance. It’s wonderful to Sam De Santis’s role as manager of the Creative key relationships and potential working collaborations pre- see The Glasgow School of Art creating strong ties that Network was established in summer 2019 to identify, graduation. bring together students and graduates to support and guide map, connect and re-establish positive working each other in a coordinated way. The experiences I’ve had relationships with and between GSA graduates, > Jamie Jefferson is a Graduate of Product Design, have connected me with some really inspiring people. I students and supporters. here she reflects on her experiences in Glasgow, at GSA hope I’ve inspired a few too! There are of course established digital tools for and with the Creative Network: collaboration and networking such as LinkedIn, and I came to Glasgow to study at the GSA in 1992. I How do you feel the Network will affect current and future rather than create an alternative to these existing wanted to study Product Design and was so inspired when graduates, working in your field, to create a positive impact? channels, the idea is to build upon their foundations 1 2 3 I visited the School – it was my clear first choice – so I I have felt for some time that the jump from education to create something that might be a better fit for our was delighted when I got in. During the programme, we into work is one that has become incredibly hard. There are networks and bring communities on different channels were introduced to the internet! It seems weird to write more options than ever, the way we hire has changed and together. “LinkedIn is a really useful tool to explore as CARE, RESPECT & CONNECTION that now – ‘introduced to the internet’ – but that’s what as I mentioned, the skillsets businesses like mine require an individual,” acknowledges De Santis, “as are the happened. We were taken on an outing up to the university are less reliably aligned with education as they change so tools the Network can access like the Live Map, or the to have a go on a ‘browser’. This day was the start of my fast and so drastically. The result is that I’ve seen too many GSA Hub. However my role is more bespoke. I aim to career proper. It was so inspiring to see the green shoots of students reacting to this education/work chasm by ignoring maximise the potential of these channels and the what is now a digital network that links every part of our it until it’s too late. In my opinion there is a general need Network and open up even more connections. That THE CREATIVE lives. I met my first business partner on my programme and to create models, activities, networks that bridge this gap might mean for instance promoting start-ups or having graduated, we worked together as a small digital for graduates. Ways to take the fear away from interacting Kickstarters to relevant and likeminded graduates creative studio. When he moved to London, I took a job with businesses, to build positive networks of opportunity and industry, it might be working with you one to one in a traditional agency as the digital lead. During this time and understand what’s important to employers today. The connecting you with future potential collaborators, we did really early online work for some amazing brands Creative Network is starting to achieve this by leveraging or helping graduates to set up a local city or country NETWORK – I created the first generation sites for Drambuie and the amazing network surrounding the GSA. There’s lots to group.” Malmaison for example. do, but this activity is certainly going in the right direction. For the moment the Network’s focus is on setting Malmaison remains a client of mine today, 20 years up a core Creative Network city group in Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art is radically updating the way later! Sadly that first agency didn’t survive, but in 1999 > When speaking with De Santis he notes how the reaffirming the city’s rich network and mapping that along with a couple of the senior team we started a new project may come across as pretty utopian, but he Network’s existing global connections. “In order to in which it interacts with current, former and prospective dedicated digital agency, Equator. At this point we could along with the team bringing together the Creative work globally,” says De Santis, “we need to understand students. Graduates Sam De Santis, Grace Mark and Jamie see the impact that digital was going to have and saw that Network believe that this is the type of thinking that locally.” In conjunction with the building of the there was an opportunity to create a full service digital the GSA’s wider community deserves. He says to imagine Glasgow Network a series of tools is being developed Jefferson spoke to Rosie Roberts (M.Litt Art Writing 2019) agency – one that could coordinate all aspects of digital a situation where you are going on a work placement to that will assist graduates with setting up local groups under one roof – this collaborative model has been very Dublin and you don’t know anyone there. Get in touch with around the globe, and there’s already interest from for Flow about the GSA’s new approach to alumni relations. successful and I’m super proud of how far we’ve come. the Creative Network at GSA either directly, or through Australia, India and Singapore. “What we want to Since we founded the business at the end of the last one of the tools such as the Live Map, and you will be put promote is local autonomy. What I am here to do is century, so much has changed in digital. Businesses have in touch with a pool of potential allies, colleagues, mentors support local and regional activity, but your regional, > The Glasgow School of Art’s new initiative in Speaking to the School’s Creative Network Manager, Fine Through this invitation Mark established a connection died out and new business models, even social models, and friends. cultural differences and interests are best understood nurturing a Creative Network attempts to engage Art Photography graduate Sam De Santis (see profile) he between the Hidden Gardens and final year Sculpture have appeared that have changed our lives in truly As an indication of the Network’s reach there are by you and your community and your local group and invest in GSA’s greatest assets – the people was optimistic about the possibilities for the outcomes and Environmental Art students. A hands-on placement fundamental ways. It’s this constant change and challenge currently over 700 GSA graduates based in Singapore, is likely to have a different purpose and intent than who attend/ed the institution – in a meaningful and from the emerging Network and thinks that a light touch was created, where two students would be working with that inspires and drives me. Today our team is over 170 405 across America, 131 in India and over 8600 across the another city or country group.” relational way. When graduates work in a sector that is is crucial. “It is key that students and former students get the Hidden Gardens to see first-hand how community people and we don’t just design websites, we create UK. “Here in Glasgow alone we already have over 3000 “It’s about simple, effective communication more often than not project-based, precariously funded and the right type of communication from GSA. By delivering organisations work. This collaboration puts theory into integrated campaigns, rich media content, brands; we even graduates contributing to the rich creative and cultural and valuing the work of all of our network, with no regularly engages with social and environmental issues that relevant communications specific to graduates, be it by practice and lets students deal with such issues as with design new business models for our clients. We are now economies, building businesses, working in industries, and hierarchy of student and graduate successes, and no are themselves capitally neglected, care and respect are discipline, sector or geography, and engaging students working the public, and working in an outdoor space. Mark the leading Digital Transformation Agency in Scotland and all are potential active members of our global Creative linear network,” says De Santis. “It’s all about bespoke essential to sensitive and relevant alumni services. in the Network through events like graduate talks and and the Creative Network played a key role in facilitating in the top five UK-wide, but I remain excited about the Network,” says De Santis. support and communications running alongside the The Creative Network initiative has been established workshops right from Year One, the Network hopes to a translation, of ‘art school and proposal speak’ to real live new opportunities arising from the evolution of the digital As Jefferson says, the Network’s ambitions for targeted smart utilisation of shared digital tools. This Network to create a vibrant and dynamic approach to supporting retain the interest of students on their departure from the results. Connecting student projects with people outside revolution, and how we continue to use these to improve growth could represent real value for its members. “While will only be successful if it’s of value to its members, and maintaining relationships with GSA’s local and global School and facilitate a smooth transition from GSA to the of arts backgrounds in a language that isn’t alienating was people’s lives and create the business models and brands there are other creative networks, for me this one is it very much must be a two-way dialogue or it fails, network of students and graduates. It specifically looks outside world.” The interaction between industry, graduates key, Mark noted that one of the essential features of the of tomorrow. special as it has the GSA at its heart. The GSA has always so it’s important that communications are targeted, to put graduates, industry and students with similar or and current students and programmes is facilitated by network was pragmatism, to try and help students develop represented a virtual network of respect among creatives. timely and engaging.” complementary praxis and research interests in touch to the Network through a range of tools supporting and realistic ideas whilst maintaining energy and ambition. How did you get involved with the GSA’s Creative Network? By giving this nebulous network a structure, it’s possible for The strength of the Network ultimately lies in its create an organic pool of shared knowledge. The Network promoting graduate successes, events and projects, During her talk at GSA Mark spoke mainly of the open- Several years ago I became aware that the creative it have real value, to make a real difference. This is what’s simplicity and a very simple tenet – that from the looks to undermine the barriers that exist between including the GSA Live Map (a real-time Google-based minded ethos that was at the heart of her creative and challenges we faced in my company were no longer well important. I believe that as one of the world’s leading art very first day that you join the GSA community you practitioners due to differences in experience, location mapping of projects, people, events and businesses that professional practice. Noting that there is a balance to be aligned with what people were being taught in education. schools, it’s vital to think big. The Creative Network is become part of a visible, joined up, global creative or disciplinary fields. The Network aims to create links form the Network), targeted bulletins, and a proactive struck in the continuous shifting of working practices after I decided to focus on helping support education to help the beginning of this journey. I’d love to see it grow into and cultural community of collaborators, partners, for ideas to develop, accomplishments to be recognised LinkedIn presence. art school, to try and build a profile but also to understand deliver the skills our digital sector was so desperate for something that reaches even further and creates even more supporters, students and graduates. “The value then and creative endeavours to grow through a combination One of the first Creative Network activities to yourself and where your values lie. She highlighted how – we were, and still are one of the UK’s fastest growing profound change. The power to create that change is right for members of this very visible Network is limitless,” of personalised support, mentorship, and a range of tools get underway in 2019 was Working Space, a series of respect and kindness are key methods in any practice sectors. Through this activity, I’ve sat on the board of a there for the taking. I’m honoured and proud to play a small says De Santis, “giving them access to clusters of through which to connect. professional practice and creative sector networking events, and should not be overlooked. These are ideas central to national charity – Creative & Cultural Skills, founded a part in that.” responsive and connected individuals, and with it If you attended the GSA for three months or more established in partnership with GSA’s Enterprise Studio. the Creative Network initiative. Importantly, Mark also national college, The National College of Creative Industries boundless potential for collaboration.” you are automatically eligible to become a part of this Working Space brought together students, alumni and emphasised how daunting traditional ‘networking’ can be. and worked with almost all Glasgow’s colleges to advocate > Get in touch and get involved: community and have access to a further range of services, employers to explore a range of career and professional We discussed how it felt like you had to be quite brave for employer-connected learning and the skills required in gsa.ac.uk/creativenetwork Contact Sam at [email protected] support and to a network of over 22,000 GSA students, development themes. One of the invited speakers was to just walk up to someone and say ‘Hi, this is what I do’. the digital sector. gsa.ac.uk/enterprisestudio graduates, industry partners, collaborators and supporters. Grace Mark, a 2014 graduate of the Mackintosh School of The initiative recognises this is an aspect of the challenges During this time I met the wonderful Libby Anson linkedin.com/school/the-glasgow-school-of-art > Please remember that if we do not have your Spanning all disciplines, representing a multitude of Architecture now working as the Community Programme the transition between education and work can bring to (Student Employability and Enterprise Manager at GSA). up to date contact details you will not receive any industries and residing in over 95 countries around the and Audience Development Manager at the Hidden the surface. For this reason, current students are also part She invited me to speak to her entrepreneurial students The GSA Live Map is a Google Map-based guide to communications from the Creative Network. world, the Network aims to connect a large, diverse and Gardens in Tramway, an international art-space in the of the Creative Network. In this way the complex and about how to make the most of digital when founding your GSA’s Creative Network, our connections and locations. Stay involved, keep in touch. widespread creative community. southside of Glasgow. imbricated process of building a profile and a community new start-up. I have been doing this for five years now and Discover the Live Map at gsa.ac.uk/livemap

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1 Open-plan living area of Helios 710 3 Queens Park Mural by by Retrouvius and Bella Freud. Joanne Dawson. Image by Michael Sinclair Image by Malcolm Cochrane 2 Ice creams by Clubhouse Animations 4 Sof a Forlife by Designed Forlife

> BRIEFING > BRIEFING > BRIEFING > BRIEFING

Interior Designer of the Year Arts Council 75 Queen’s Honours 2019 White Stuff x Eve Campbell Architecture graduate Maria CREATIVE The Arts Council Collection John Mackechnie RSA (DA CREATIVE Fashion retailer White Speake has been awarded continues to grow through the Drawing and Painting, 1971) Stuff has launched a new House and Garden’s Interior recent purchase of 59 works and Dr Ian Callum (MA womenswear collection with Designer of the year for 2019. by 25 artists, including the Industrial Design, 1979) were Textile Design graduate Eve When discussing the award, work of GSA graduates Katie both recognised in the 2019 Campbell for autumn/winter House and Garden remarked, NETWORK Cuddon, Mick Peter, Hayley Queen’s Birthday Honours NETWORK 2019. The White Stuff design “It was a unanimous decision Tompkins and Jacqueline List. Dr Ian Callum was the team spotted Eve’s printed by the team, who have long Donachie. Recommendations Chief Designer at Jaguar Cars textiles at the New Designers admired her intelligent rooms to purchase innovative works for 20 years and received a Queens Park Mural showcase as part of Degree and refined craftsmanship.” of art that reflect artistic CBE for services to the British Painting and Printmaking graduate Joanne Dawson has created a mural for the Queens Park Arena, commissioned by Show London 2018, which Maria is the co-founder of practice in Britain today are car industry, while artist and Inhouse Events CIC with support from Johnson Tiles. A real community project, the artwork was created after consultation led to the collaboration on Retrouvius, an acclaimed made by a changing group of Director of the Glasgow Print with owners of local business Milk Café and Finn’s Place, and pupils from Place and Cuthbertson Nursery and Primary a 14-piece womenswear architectural salvage company external advisors to the Arts Studio John MacKechnie School. The local residents were all asked to describe what the park symbolises to them, which Dawson then responded to collection featuring prints based in London which was Council Collection. received an MBE for services within her design. inspired by the rugged beauty established in Glasgow artscouncilcollection.org.uk to art. “The making of Queens Park Mural has been a greatly fulfilling experience, and truly a collaborative project from start of the Scottish landscape. The in 1993. right through to implementation,” Dawson commented. “I’m delighted to have shared the process with pupils, residents collection forms part of the retrouvius.com Max Mara Art Prize Rachel Adams at A4E and organisations from the local area and I hope it’s enjoyed for many years to come.” company’s ‘Nurtures Talent’ for Women Mackintosh School of joannedawson.co.uk initiative, which highlights up- Design Awards for Paul Gray Artist, musician and Sculpture Architecture graduate Rachel and-coming designers. Graphic Design graduate and Environmental Art Adams is now an owner/ evecampbell.co.uk Paul Gray recently won the graduate Hanna Tuulikki has partner of Architecture for Chair’s Award at the 2019 been nominated for the 8th Education (A4E), a 15-person Glasgow International 2020 Drum Design Awards, and edition of the Max Mara Art architectural design firm 37 graduates of The the Best Packaging Award Prize for Women. The prize, based in Los Angeles Glasgow School of Art will at the 2019 Scottish Design established by fashion house responsible for more than be exhibiting as part of The Awards. Both commendations Max Mara alongside the 100 transformational schools Glasgow International Festival were made for his work with Whitechapel Gallery, aims across the western US. for 2020. Included in the the Glaswegian Distilling to celebrate emerging female Placing significant emphasis list of 109 artists are GSA Company. The Drum Design artists based in the UK, and is on students’ various needs Graduates Duncan Campbell, Award was selected by John 1 awarded every two years. The and learning styles, A4E’s Sarah Forrest, Carol Rhodes, Mathers, Director of Design at winner will be announced in design approach asserts that Illana Halperin, Jacqueline the British Design Fund as his Lunchtime, Good Press and Sundays early 2020. school buildings themselves Donachie, Hayley Tompkins, personal best in show. A new collaborative addition to Glasgow’s cultural landscape has opened at 32 St Andrews Street, the new home of hannatuulikki.org can be part of the learning David Sherry, Annie Crabtree glaswegin.com/pages/behind- independent print organisation Good Press, alongside gallery Lunchtime and printing service Sundays. Established in experience. and more. In total GSA the-bottle 2011 by graduate Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine, Good Press is dedicated to the promotion and distribution BAFTA Scotland architecture4e.com 3 graduates make up 34% of of independently published printed matter. All of the publications stocked at the space are self-published or produced Nominations the 2020 programme. Lydia Blackshaw by independent small presses and galleries. In 2018, the Good Press team established Sundays, an artist-led risograph GSA graduates Louise GoMA Associate Artist Hive Curatorial Collective www.glasgowinternational. at Specsavers printing service that operates as both a commercial business and members’ studio. Lockwood, Ross Hogg, Martin The latest Associate Artist Hive is a new sustainable collective formed by five curators from GSA and University of Glasgow’s Curatorial Practice org Silversmithing and Jewellery Lunchtime opened its doors in July 2019 with an exhibition of works on paper and canvas by Communication Design Clark and Josephine Lohoar for the Gallery of Modern Art (Contemporary Art) programme. Anaïs Janze Natera, Jeanie Black, Natalie Nicolaides, Isabelle Thul, and Bilyana graduate Lydia Blackshaw was graduate Isobel Neviazsky (Communication Design 2011). Lunchtime will maintain an artist-led approach and present a Self have all been shortlisted (GoMA) in Glasgow has been Palankasova met while studying on the programme, and joined forces with a mission to find ethical and environmentally Alisha Farnam in Ukraine one of only four designers mixture of artists from a range of backgrounds and experiences. for the 2019 BAFTA Scotland announced as Rhona Warwick sustainable methods of exhibition making and curatorial research. The collective is non-hierarchical, with sharing of Fine Art Photography selected to produce a unique goodpress.co.uk awards. Hogg and Lohoar Paterson, who graduated from resources, skills and knowledge at its centre. graduate Alishia Farnan has collection of glasses for the sundays-print-service.co.uk Self are both nominated the MRes Creative Practice The collective have already worked on exhibitions, publications, sonic artworks and performances, some of been selected as one of inaugural Specsavers design lunchtimegallery.co.uk in the animation category, programme in 2008. During which formed part of Graduate Degree Show 2019. Works presented examine subjects such as the climate crisis only seven UK participants competition. Lydia infused Lockwood is up for Best her two-year tenure, Paterson and animal poaching, with exhibitions and events being held at venues such as Caledonia Road Church and Glasgow of SWAP UK/Ukraine, a a contemporary design Metro Tunnel Project Director (Factual) for her will respond to the exhibition Autonomous Space. residency programme aesthetic into her collection, Arts and culture consultants T Projects, co-founded by work on the Imagine… film Domestic Bliss, as well as hivecuratorial.wixsite.com coordinated by The British C U Eyewear, saying, “My Fine Art graduate Victoria Jones, are project partners for Hockney, The Queen And The GoMA’s history as a home and Council. Three Ukraine- inspiration came from seeing the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Legacy Artwork Program. Royal Peculiar, and Clark’s Royal Exchange. The residency Sofa Forlife based artists and a curator the rise in popularity of clear The project is part of the $11 billion Metro Tunnel Project, short Jealous Alan is one of will culminate in September Product Design Engineering graduate Saskia Goeres, Kevin will spend 45 days in art glasses – I wondered if I could and will see the creation of a line-wide artwork by an the Best Short Film nominees. 2021 as part of the gallery’s O’Malley and Ellen Britton are the core team behind institutions across Scotland, add personality with pops of Indigenous artist, as well as five artworks specific to bafta.org/scotland 25 anniversary programming. Designed Forlife, a company established to develop ranges while the UK-based artists will colour.” individual stations. The five new Metro stations and the galleryofmodernart. of household furnishings with sustainability and longevity discover the Ukrainian cultural instagram.com/lydiablackshaw commissioned artworks within will be opened across International Architectural wordpress.com at the core. Their first product is the Sofa Forlife, the first landscape in collaboration 2 Melbourne in 2025. Review Shortlist sustainable, circular economy, modular sofa. Made in with cultural institutions T Projects specialise in integrating creative temporary Established in 2013 by Scotland from sustainable materials, it was showcased at in Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, and Clubhouse Animations programming and permanent public art into complex built Mackintosh School of London Design Festival and Disruptive Innovation Festival Dnipro. Founded in 2019 by Visual Communication graduate environments, places and spaces. To date the team have Architecture graduates on the Isle of Mann in September. alishia.co.uk Eleanor Stewart, Clubhouse is the first dedicated stop delivered a multitude of projects across the UK, Europe Jennifer O’Donnell (2007) and The sofa’s core frame is made from CNC cut birch motion and 100% paper animation studio based in and Australia, ranging from major infrastructure projects Sam Brown (2007), Glasgow- ply bonded together using a natural waste product from Scotland. Based in the heart of Glasgow, the unique through to intimate boutique scale projects. based architecture studio the wood industry, while the cushions are made from strength of Clubhouse is its ability to provide the entire Victoria Jones’ work has been widely recognised O’DonnellBrown is the only Selvedge, a waste material from the textile industry which service of stop-motion creations, including creative and outside of the organisation, receiving awards and UK entrant to be shortlisted is naturally fire retardant, washable and recyclable. To date artistic project collaboration, bespoke video content, accolades from both The International Academy for for the International the team have been the recipients of awards including the handcrafted paper models and set design. Since opening Design & Health and The Building Better Healthcare Architectural Review Emerging 2019 Scottish Edge Young Edge award, the 2019 Catalyst the studio has worked with clients such as Poppy Scotland, Awards MSc International Management and Design Architecture Awards. Award and the 2018 Converge Challenge Entrepreneurial the North Uist Distillery and created GSA Christmas Innovation 2018. www.odonnellbrown.com Spirit Award. In the summer of 2019, the team was 4 e-card for 2019. tprojects.co expanded to include fellow PDE graduates Alex Duff. clubhouseanimations.com sofaforlife.co.uk

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1 Fresh Info Connect, (2019), Michael Stubbs, household paint, tinted floor varnish on MDF 2 Flyer for WWI fundraising event, 1915 © GSA Archives and Collections 3 Four Pools, Wanlock Dod, (2019), Alan Currall

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Details of all our current and GSA Home Front Michael Stubbs: Glasgow International Glasgow International Memorial Small Scale Works 24 April — 10 May 2020 Kameelah Janan Rasheed future events can be found Until November 2020 10 January — Venue: various across 23 April – 24 May 2020 Venue: Memorial Chapel, 2 February 2020 Glasgow, see website for Venue: 5 Florence Street, at www.gsa.ac.uk/visit University of Glasgow Venue: Reid Ground full listings Glasgow, G5 0YX To mark the centenary of Floor Corridor The theme for 2020 New York-based artist, the First World War, GSA An exhibition of small is Attention. As much writer, and educator Archives & Collections works by Michael Stubbs, a method or approach Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Exhibitions have a lecturer in Painting as a theme, Attention is known for work that worked with Louise Welsh, and Printmaking at asks us to consider how, takes an experimental Professor of Creative GSA. Stubbs’s paintings where and in whom approach to narrating Black Writing at the University operate at the interface our attention is placed at a experience. Working across of Glasgow and Edwin of abstraction and pop, time of seemingly constant a range of media, Rasheed Pickstone, GSA Lecturer, and are constructed distraction through, for often conceives exhibitions to create a memorial to by combining poured, instance, social media and as pedagogical experiences GSA students, staff and abstract configurations 24 hour news feeds. What with the power to explore governors who undertook of transparent varnishes are the opportunities for conflicting histories, work on the home front. and opaque household close looking both in the hidden narratives, archives, The memorial will be on paints with ready-made making and viewing of memory, and public space. display at the University of graphic stencils. The art, and how we attend to Supported by: Glasgow Glasgow Memorial Chapel repeated pouring, in others whom we care for, International Festival of for a year until November conjunction with the pop as well as ourselves? Visual Art, and Urban 2020 – consisting of text signs, form a physical GSA’s own Across the Office, Venue Partner by Welsh, letterpress process of sensual flat-on- City project is a solo prints by Pickstone, in a flat layering that reveals exhibition of new work 1 frame designed and made multiple perspectives and by New York-based artist, by Steven Higgins with optical depths. The works writer and educator lettering from Erin Bradley- explode recognisable Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Scott. The project has images, a response to the who will exhibit new work been generously funded proliferation of broadcast in 5 Florence Street, an old by Mr James McBroom, and internet-based images Victorian school building. whose father James Nicol that fill our world. Stubbs 37 graduates of The McBroom was a prize- interrogates and critically Glasgow School of Art will winning student at the re-configures painting in an be exhibiting as part of School and who undertook age of internet information The Glasgow International munitions work during overload. Festival for 2020. Included the war. in the list of 109 artists Practicing Landscape: are GSA Graduates Land, Histories and Duncan Campbell, Sarah Transformation Forrest, Carol Rhodes, 25 Jan — 22 March 2020 Illana Halperin, Jacqueline Venue: Gallery 1, The Donachie, Hayley Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Tompkins, David Sherry, Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU Annie Crabtree and more. This exhibition brings In total GSA graduates together the work of make up 34% of the 2020 sixteen The Glasgow Programme. School of Art researchers, www.glasgowinternational. who are part of a research org group called Reading Landscape. Artists include Nicky Bird, Susan Brind, Justin Carter, Alan Currall, Marianne Greated, Michail Mersinis, Christine McBride, 2 Shauna McMullan, Lesley Punton, Ross Sinclair, Michael Stumpf, Amanda Thomson, Gina Wall, Hugh Watt.

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