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22 unusual facts about Glasgow School of Art


Astrid Kruse Jensen

She completed her studies in 2002 after a two-year course at the Glasgow School of Art's Fine Art Photography department.

Cathy Jamieson

Jamieson was educated at James Hamilton Academy in Kilmarnock, before obtaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and a Higher National Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths College in London.

Chantal Joffe

She attended Glasgow School of Art in 1988–91, graduating with honours and receiving her BA in Fine Art.

Christine Berrie

Berrie, who has been active since 2003, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in visual communication from Glasgow School of Art, and her Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in London.

Diane Torr

Torr currently lives and works in Glasgow where she is Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.

Dyke White

Gordon attended the Glasgow School of Art, and was awarded a Haldane Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to travel on the continent.

Edward Rainey

Rainey's ambition now is to graduate from the Glasgow School of Art and to become a full member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World.

Hanna Tuulikki

She studied Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art and had a residency in Cromarty, where she recorded people imitating the sea on the CD 100 Breaths, 100 Waves, and a replication of a dawn chorus on Salutations To The Sun.

Katie Cullen

Cullen began cycling after she began a project whilst studying to become an Architect at the Glasgow School of Art.

Ken Collins

On leaving university, Collins worked as a local authority planning officer and lectured at the Glasgow School of Art and Paisley College of Technology subsequently being elected a Member of East Kilbride Town and District Council (1973–79) and of Lanark County Council (1973–75).

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

The book follows Thaw's wartime evacuation, secondary education and his scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art, where his inability to form relationships with women and his obsessive artistic vision lead to his descent into madness and eventual suicide by drowning.

Liz Lochhead

After attending Glasgow School of Art, Lochhead lectured in fine art for eight years before becoming a professional writer.

Michael Fullerton

He attended the Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the MA painting programme in 2002.

Mick Manning

In 1990 he devised and ran the BA honours Illustration option at the Glasgow School of Art as Course Leader.

Reactor Party

The video was filmed in a disused railway tunnel in the west end of Glasgow and a boiler room in the Glasgow School of Art.

Sarah Lowndes

Sarah Lowndes is a writer and curator based in Glasgow, where she is also a lecturer in the Forum for Critical Inquiry at Glasgow School of Art.

Sauchiehall Street

Notable landmarks in this area of the street include the former Beresford Hotel, Glasgow School of Art, the Glasgow Film Theatre, CCA Glasgow, the McLellan Galleries, the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum and the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.

Seona Reid

Reid's directorship at the Glasgow School of Art was focused on delivering the School's Estates programme, in particular the Mackintosh Conservation and Access project, the associated campus redevelopment and the selection of American architect Steven Holl with JM Architects to design the Phase 1 building to be called the Seona Reid Building.

Sue Tompkins

Tompkins also provided the vocals for indie rock band Life Without Buildings, along with other students of the Glasgow School of Art.

Wensdy

This was a turning point as Wensdy could yet again focus on her music and art and she shortly after pursued a Portfolio preparation course and got accepted into Glasgow School of Art.

Prior to starting her solo career, she studied at Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art and Dance and Drama at Performance College.

William Oliphant Hutchison

Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director.


Mackintosh School of Architecture

The Mackintosh School of Architecture (MSA) is one of the three schools which makes up the Glasgow School of Art, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Margery Clinton

She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953 and was part of the Young Glasgow group, whose inaugural exhibition was held at the McLellan Galleries in 1958.