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FlOW ISSUE 10Cover Image:There will be no miracles here,installation view at Mount Stuart.Nathan ColeyPhoto: Kenneth HunterWe√comeWelcome to Issue 10 of Flow.Nathan Coley’s work, pictured on the front of this issue of Flow, makes a bold declaration – Therewill be no miracles here. However, the word miracle is derived from the Latin word miraculummeaning ‘something wonderful’ and had we commissioned Nathan to produce a similar piece ofwork for the School, he could have boldly declared There are miracles here – there is ‘somethingwonderful’ here.We try to share the ‘something wonderful’ that is The Glasgow School of Art in every issue of Flowand this issue is no different, sharing with you the successes and achievements of our students,alumni and staff, but also some of the challenges that the School is facing and the creative waysin which we are addressing them. This issue looks at scholarships and the co-curriculum.Throughour responses to these challenges, we are not only building on our tradition of access, but arecontinuing to produce graduates who are professionally orientated and socially engaged.As you read this issue, think about the wonderful, think about the School and think about howyou can be part of something wonderful at The Glasgow School of Art.STOP PRESS!TURNER PRIZE NOMINATIONEnvironmental Art graduate, Nathan Coley (1989), has been nominated for the 2007 Turner Prizefor his solo exhibition at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (cover), the public installation, CamouflageChurch, at Spain’s Santiago de Compostela and his contribution to a group exhibition at theMuseum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.The winner will be announced on 3 December 2007.SCOTTISH DESIGN AWARDSCongratulations to GSA graduates Gareth Hoskins, Robin Lee,Alan Dunlop, Craig Wilson, LynnDevine, Janice Kirkpatrick and Ross Hunter of Graven Images, and Emlyn Firth and Stuart Gilmourof Stand, who all walked away with awards on the night.CONTENTSPAGEWelcome 2Making Waves 3GS≤A News 6Egalitarian Education for the Talent of Tomorrow 7Tackling the Vocational Vacuum 10GS≤A News 12Alumni News 13Donors and Sponsors 15Events 16Published by: The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street,Glasgow, United Kingdom G3 6RQTelephone: +44 (0)141 353 4500www.gsa.ac.ukEdited by:Wry Poetic and Liz BreckenridgeCopywriting:Wry PoeticDesign: Third Eye DesignPrint: Beith PrintingPrinted on: 90gms Tauro© The Glasgow School of Art, 2007An electronic version of this publication is available at www.gsa.ac.ukIf you require a copy in an alternative format please contact theMarketing & Development Office on: +44 (0)141 353 4710 or at marketing@gsa.ac.uk>BRIEFINGHot 50Design Week magazine hasput the GSA into its HOT 50honours list of people andorganisations that have madea significant contributionto design.The magazine describesthe GSA as a leader in thefield of design education andcommends the School forengaging in ‘socially relevantdesign rather that just creatinga product’.SIE Success for Red ButtonFor the fourth year in succession,GSA students have won prizesin the Scottish Institutefor Enterprise NationalUndergraduate BusinessPlan Competition.Third year Product DesignEngineering students, JamesBrown and Nicky Pang – andGlasgow University’s AmandaYoung – from Red Button Design,won the first prize of £16,000 foran innovative Reverse OsmosisSanitation System (ROSS).ROSS is a water sanitation,transport and storage devicespecifically tailored to suit thedemands of poverty strickendeveloping countries and enablesindividuals to collect water andsanitise it for drinking or bathing.This is the second year insuccession that GSA studentshave won first prize and thefourth in a row that GSAstudents have been placedin the top three.OBE for architectureprofessorProfessor Colin Porteous, SeniorResearcher in the MackintoshSchool of Architecture, has beenawarded an OBE in the NewYear Honours list. Colin washonoured for his services toarchitecture.Olympic Medals UnveiledThe 2008 Olympic Medals havebeen unveiled by their designer,Professor Xiao Yong, of partnerinstitution The Central Academyof Fine Arts in Beijing – withwhich the GSA operates a jointinternational programme.Made of gold and jade, themedals symbolise nobility andvirtue, and represent traditionalChinese values of ethics andhonour. Noble and elegant, themedals are a blend of traditionalChinese culture and GreekOlympism.2WELCOME

ISSUE 10 FlOW1 HotelRoss Watkins2 Ross WatkinsMaking wavesA GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART EDUCATION INFORMS ITS STUDENTS WITH A UNIQUELEARNING EXPERIENCE. FLOW CAUGHT UP WITH FIVE GRADUATES WHO HAD THECHANCE TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF A SCHOLARSHIP.The GSA makes a huge contribution to thecultural, social and economic life of Scotlandand its national and international reputation.The GSA contributes culturally:> By helping to transform Glasgow from apost-industrial city to a vibrant cultural capital.> By establishing the reputation of Glasgow,and Scotland in general, as a worldwide centrefor the visual arts.The GSA contributes socially:> By making sure that the GSA buildings,collections, summer schools, exhibitions andclasses are not only available to studentsand staff – but are also accessible to thepublic as a whole.> By encouraging students and staff tointeract and work with the local community.> By educating generations of people tounderstand and appreciate arts and culture.The GSA contributes economically:> By helping to fuel the creative industriesin Scotland through its graduates and throughits research and innovation.> By developing graduates with highly-refinedcreative skills and abilities. GSA graduates don’tonly become artists, designers and architects theyalso become successful business professionals,community leaders, civil servants, teachers andgovernment ministers.The GSA contributes educationally:> Through research that influences world cultureby generating new knowledge through creativityand conceptual thinking.> By maximising the benefits to both staff andstudents by making the most of potential linksbetween teaching and research, ensuring thecontent of our programmes are continuallyupdated and enhanced.> By developing new programmes at postgraduatelevel which provide opportunities for progressionfrom undergraduate study, through postgraduateto doctoral study.1Name: Ross WatkinsProgramme: Textiles (2003),3D Motion Graphics (2005)Current role: Edit Assistant at IWC MediaScholarship: GSA Postgraduate BursaryWhat’s your favourite part of your current role?My job revolves around supporting TV editors and directorsat the post-production stage. I enjoy having a hand in theprogramme-making process as it all comes together.Whenprogrammes come in we digitise the tapes into the Avidsystem. It’s an excellent job for learning and being thrownin the deep end, this job is definitely the best way to get into being an editor.What do you think The Glasgow School of Art’scontribution is/has been to Glasgow and beyond?The Art School has drafted hundreds of talented youngpeople into the creative industries and of these people,most will remember things like school trips to the OpenDay or Degree Show as the moment they thought it waspossible to consider making artwork for a living. I think therole the Art School plays in the first place is to get themhooked on this idea early enough.What difference has being awarding a scholarshipmade to you?The scholarship paid my entire postgraduate fee – without itI couldn’t have even come close to raising the funds to studythe course I wanted.The course was £3900 per year for twoyears. I was awarded £5000 per year so it also gave me achunk of money each year for subsistence. My job was set outfor a graduate in a course in moving image production. Beingon the postgraduate course is the number one reason I gotthis job.What advice would you give students receivinga scholarship?Once you get the scholarship you should want to do it justice.You should be spurred on by the faith that others have shownin your work.2What is your fondest memory of the GSA?The street parties are definitely right up there although itseemed to rain every year and still does.That, and a certainfellow textiles student setting the fire alarm off trying to doan all-nighter in the print studio, much to the delight of thejanitors at the time.MAKING WAVES3

FlOW ISSUE 103 RememberKarla Black4 Karla Black5 El Campillo, RondaCharlie Jamieson6 Charlie Jamieson43 5 6Name: Karla BlackProgramme: BA(Hons) Fine Art - Sculpture (1999),MPhil Art In Organisational Contexts2000, MFA 2004Current role: ArtistScholarship: West of Scotland PostgraduateScholarship, Hope Scott TrustScholarship, Robertson Trust Scholarship.What is your favourite part of your current role?Just being able to concentrate fully on making work inmy studio and on-site in galleries for exhibitions. It feelsso great to me to no longer have to have a job or doanything for money apart from my artwork.The fact thatthis situation has been a long time coming makes meappreciate it even more. It is only in the last year anda half that I have been represented successfully by acommercial gallery and that the work has had importantinternational exposure.What do you think The Glasgow School of Art’scontribution is/has been to Glasgow and beyond?So many good artists are graduates of The Glasgow Schoolof Art, many of whom have very visible internationalcareers now.An art school education is unusual andinvaluable because it is so self-directed and open.TheGlasgow School of Art puts particular emphasis onhistorical awareness, self-reflexive criticism and aseriousness of purpose that is obvious in the workof the artists who began their practices there.What is your fondest memory of the GSA?I have lots of art school memories: the friendships that wereformed there that I still have and that are very important tome; realisations made and interests and ideas sparked, aswell as all the good times we had and all the art I saw onschool trips to Amsterdam, London, Liverpool, Edinburghand the Scottish Sculpture Studios in Lumsden.Name: Charlie JamiesonProgramme: DA Sculpture (1974), MFA (TCU, 1976)Current role: Painter, Photographer,Actor (StillGame, Blake’s 7), President of PaisleyArt Institute and Chairman/co-founder of the Aspect PrizeScholarship: Haldane ScholarshipWhat’s your favourite part of your current role?My main thrust is painting, I just can’t paint enough. Halfa year ago I wasn’t selling anything so I had this backlogbut I’ve sold every week since mid December which isexcellent. I’ve spent the last six months taking photographsfor ‘A Portrait of Glasgow’. I’m to be hung from the towerat the science centre in a basket; it’s going to be anamazing photograph.With the Aspect Prize it’s great to do something thathelps people; that gives me great satisfaction. I want to domore acting too because I haven’t done enough in the pastfew years.Acting is a technical thing as well as an artisticrush, you have two people, studios, cameras, the detail andthe edge, there’s a danger too because if you stumble or fallyou’re in the shit, it’s brilliant, I love it.What do you think The Glasgow School of Art’scontribution is/has been to Glasgow and beyond?Its impact locally is totally huge and its impact on theglobal scene is also huge.You just have to look at the alumnito see that some pretty great people come out of here.We’re so lucky with that building as well; I spent five yearsin the Mackintosh building and before that as a kid onSaturday mornings.What is your fondest memory of the GSA?The early 70s were a riot, compared to today it was a verynon-PC world which made it very amusing. If I hadn’t comehere I would have had a stunted emotional life and wouldhave probably died somewhere teaching.There was a realmutual respect between staff and students, they all joinedin and we had a lot of great times and learned a lot.Theexperience of just talking to someone who was makingtheir living as an artist was wonderful.What difference has being awarding a scholarshipmade to you?I travelled and painted, it’s what I do now. I’d never reallytravelled before apart from a bit with my parents to Italy ina car full of family. It totally alters your outlook and lets yousee outside your environment which is always good. Thebigness of the sky and the colours you see in the South ofthe US will stay with me forever.What advice would you give students receivinga scholarship?I’d just say go out there and do what you want to do.Thisisn’t about logic; it’s about finding the stepping stone foryour creativity, which isn’t logical.www.charlesjamieson.co.ukwww.paisleyartinstitute.org.ukwww.theaspectprize.comWhat difference has being awarding a scholarshipmade to you?The scholarships I received made a huge difference to me inthat I was able to concentrate purely on my studio work andnot be distracted by having to get a job to see me throughmy postgraduate studies.What advice would you give students receivinga scholarship?Try to use it to maximise your time in the studio.“THE SCHOLARSHIPS I RECEIVED MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCETO ME IN THAT I WAS ABLE TO CONCENTRATE PURELY ONMY STUDIO WORK .”4 MAKING WAVES

ISSUE 10 FlOW7 Students of North LanarkshireCouncils’ music class.8 Irene Halliday9 Jill Malvenan10 Kilmarnock Bus Station –a redevelopment of an existingbuilding by Jillian Malvenan withElder & Cannon879 10Name:Programme:Current role:Scholarship:Irene HallidayBA (Hons) Silversmithing and Jewellery(1982), MA Design (1983)Arts Outreach Manager,North Lanarkshire CouncilSam Maver Bequest ScholarshipName: Jill MalvenanProgramme: BArch (1980), Dip Arch (1983),MArch (1984)Current role: Founder of Urbis ArchitectsScholarship: Haldane ScholarshipWhat is your favourite part of your current role?I like providing opportunities for people in their owncommunity. I manage a team of arts development officerswho develop arts programmes throughout the councilranging from visual arts, photography and drama to musicand dance classes.We’re responsible for 113 arts classesevery week, it’s all about accessibility.We get peopleinvolved in the arts at a grass roots level and try andoffer people a creative and participatory experience.What do you think The Glasgow School of Art’scontribution is/has been to Glasgow and beyond?It’s quite a tight wee community which has a hugeinternational reputation; people come from all over theworld to study here now.The graduates certainly take theirreputation around the world. It helped develop my creativityand the standards and a quality of work that I take in to mywork now. It’s certainly a good ambassador for Glasgow.What is your favourite part of your current role?Seeing the things being built. If you’re standing there andit feels good it’s a great feeling.There are few typical days,I could be visiting big sites in city centre’s one day, discussingdevelopments which may take years to come to fruition,and the next day, I could be in the office working onconstruction details for a house to be built almostimmediately.What do you think The Glasgow School of Art’scontribution is/has been to Glasgow and beyond?Graduates of the Mackintosh School of Architecture andtheir contribution to Glasgow have gained internationalrecognition.The city has a reputation for innovation andfor challenging the establishment. There was a feeling offreshness, of excitement, and a buzz which was inspiredby the tutors but also by the proximity to and contact withthe School of Art.What difference has being awarding a scholarshipmade to you?I used it to part fund a trip to the US to see some FrankLloyd Wright buildings and the Sea Ranch residentialdevelopment, which at the time was cutting edge.You storea mental bank of images and associations of space and themore experiences you have the more interesting – hopefully –your work is.What advice would you give students receivinga scholarship?Use it for something you wouldn’t normally be able to do,look out of the box a bit. Often when you’re studying yourhead is down and you have less time, it’s nice to stick yourhead above the parapit and see some other things.What is your fondest memory of the GSA?When I was doing my Masters my year group were given astudio on the top floor of the Mackintosh building at the endof the hen run. It was the most beautiful studio with beautifullight. It was a lovely, lovely room and a really nice space to bein. It was really nice to have access to that kind of space.What difference has being awarded a scholarshipmade to you?I went to Amsterdam because Dutch contemporary jewellerywas so different to what was happening anywhere else. Itreally informed my work and gave me the chance to seedifferent things and be inspired by what I saw. It’s anexpensive life being a student so it’s good if the Art Schoolcan generate financial support to distribute to worthy cases.It’s all about culture, art and experience.What advice would you give students receivinga scholarship?Use it for something you would otherwise not be able to do.Push yourself in another direction, it’s for learning, it’s aboutyour education in a wider sense.What is your fondest memory of the GSA?My first day. Our tutors had salvaged the fittings of a Glasgowpub and cafe being demolished. Our first project was to takea crit room in the school, blag some black paint from thejanitors and turn it into a café.We built up the bar,reconstructed the booths, and touched up old price lists forthe walls. It was a fantastic introduction to architecture,taking a space that had negative associations and turningit into somewhere that people would want to be.That critroom is now the Vic.“OUR FIRST PROJECT WAS TO TAKE A CRIT ROOM IN THESCHOOL, BLAG SOME BLACK PAINT FROM THE JANITORS ANDTURN IT INTO A CAFÉ...THAT CRIT ROOM IS NOW THE VIC.”MAKING WAVES5

FlOW ISSUE 101 The Digital Art SchoolCourtesy of The Glasgow Schoolof Art’s Digital Design Studio2 City Buddy in actionCraig Smith3 Atlantic RestaurantDigital Design Studio>BRIEFINGClydebank rebuiltDigital Design Studio studentsare designing a speciallycommissioned 3Drepresentation of Clydebank’sJohn Brown Shipyard as part ofthe Clydebank Rebuiltpreservation project.Visitors to the £175,000exhibition will be able toobserve the digital recreationof the famous shipyard fromthe top of one of the fewremaining relics of Clydebank’sshipbuilding industry – a 120foot Titan Crane – depictingthe yard as it was when theQE2 was built and tens ofthousands of workers wereemployed in Clydebank’sshipyards.The students will use oldphotographs of the yard toreconstruct photo-realcomputer images and a3D geographical overlay ofwhere the John Brown yardused to be.Potting from Glasgowto AfghanistanThird year Ceramic Designstudent, Ester Svensson, istaking a year out to work ona ceramics project with theTurquoise MountainFoundation in Afghanistan.Ester will contribute to theregeneration of Kabul’s historiccommercial centre byproviding basic services,training local students, savinghistoric buildings andconstructing a new bazaarand galleries for traditionalcraft businesses.Freehand is a cutabove the restSurgeons at Canniesburnplastic surgery unit haveenlisted the help of visitingFirst Year Product Design andContinuing Education tutor,Cynthia Bowles.Consultant Plastic,TaimurShoaib, explained,“We oftendraw as part of our work andI think all plastic surgeonsshould have an element ofartistic skill.“What I now see are shadowsand where the light falls onthe face. Obviously when theperson is lying on the operatingtable the light is falling directlyon the nose but when they’restanding up there’s light fallingon different places.”GS≤A NEWS1Mackintosh Building – open for offers!The Digital Mackintosh Adopt a Brick campaign raised over £11,000 in its first week, with new sales racking up by the day.The specially designed Digital Art School – selected as Adobe Site-of-the-Day for its ‘strong visual design, superiorfunctionality and innovative use of Adobe products’ – was developed by the GSA’s Digital Design Studio to raise additional fundsfor the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project.Virtual segments of the building are now being sold online to donors whowish to be associated with specific parts of the building.Using a click to donate process, donations can be made quickly and safely online.The Campaigns Team will then personallyrespond with an email and and e-certificate acknowledging each gift.Donors’ names will be listed on the website for the duration of the project and will be displayed in the new InterpretationCentre alongside the Bellahouston Bequest Fund – the trust which provided the funding for the original building – the HughFraser Foundation, the Monument Trust, the Gannochy Trust, Glasgow City Council, Historic Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, theGarfield Weston Foundation, the Dean of Guild Court Trust and the European Regional Development Fund.The cost of the Mackintosh conservation work is just over £8.6 million and so far the campaigns team has raised animpressive £7.5 million with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic Scotland, Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, GlasgowCity Council and generous private donors.You can adopt your own piece of the building at www.digitalmackintosh.co.uk.2 3RSA design directionsProduct Design Engineering MEng student, Craig Smith,was joint winner in the Streets Ahead category of the RSADesign Directions competition.The Competition challenges young designers toconsider how their future professional responsibilities canhave a meaningful effect on business, public services andwider societal and ethical concerns.Worn around the wrist, Craig’s discreet City Buddy helpsblind and partially-sighted users to navigate and interactwith the urban environment using a small RFID (RadioFrequency Identification) chip.The City Buddy is activated by a signal emitted by theroad crossing.The user can then remotely operate thecrossing before being notified when it is safe to cross bya combination of audio and vibration feedback.Empire Exhibition lives on 3DThe Digital Design Studio are putting the finishing touchesto a 3D, photo realistic recreation of a world-famousarchitectural landscape from Glasgow's past as part of a£146,000 research project.The 3D version of the famous Empire Exhibition willrecreate the original show of 150 buildings which attractedcrowds of over 12.5m to Bellahouston Park over six monthsin 1938.The 21st century recreation will be on show at theHouse for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park where visitorscan view the attraction in a dedicated interpretation roomwhich will double as an education suite for Glasgow’sschools.It will also be available online as a major website.>BRIEFINGAlumnus awardedroyal distinctionIan Callum (Industrial Design,1977) has recently beenawarded the distinction of‘Royal Designer for Industry’by the RSA for ‘sustainedexcellence in aesthetic andefficient design for industry’.Only 200 designers mayhold the distinction at anytime and it is regarded as thehighest honour to be obtainedin the UK in the field ofIndustrial Design.Ian, Director of Design atJaguar, is acknowledged asone of the world's leadingautomotive designers and iscurrently working on the nextgeneration of Jaguar products.This is the second award forIan Callum in the last year whoalso received the Jim ClarkMemorial Award, given bythe Association of ScottishMotoring Writers.Maturation of MEDesThe establishment of theMasters of European Design(MEDes) as one of Europe’sleading international designprogrammes was underlinedthis year as the inter-schoolworkshop returned to the GSA,seven years after its launch atthe School in 2000.Students studying thefive-year MEDes participatein two year-long exchangesat one of the seven memberinstitutions and each yearone of the Schools is selectedas the ‘host’, where all of thestudents gather for a groupworkshop in the spring.After being held at sevendifferent workshops aroundEurope – the GSA; UIAH,Helsinki; Politecnico de Milano;Les Ateliers, Paris; Stuttgart;Koln and Konstfack, Stockholm– it was fitting that the GSA,the original host and drivingforce behind the MEDes, wasthe location for the newiteration.The 2007 project, Excess,introduced students – throughlectures, workshops and cityexploration – to the themeof excess with studentspresenting a design responseto alter this particular aspectof the city.6NEWS

ISSUE 10 FlOW1 Year 4 Silversmithing & Jewellerystudent, Fraser Hamilton, prepareshis exhibition space for the 2007Degree Show.EgaLiTAriAnEducaTiOn fOrThe TaLenT OfTOmOrrOw1When Fraser Hamilton recallsthe time he spent last year atthe illustrious Hiko MizunoCollege of Jewellery in Tokyo,the phrase he continuallyuses is “mind-blowing”.By Stephen Breen> If it had not been for the financial assistance he receivedthrough a bursary in his third year at the GSA, Hamiltonwould never have been able to attend the prestigiouscourse.The 21 year-old was so inspired by the experienceof studying for three months in Japan that it convinced himto enrol in a two-year Masters degree at the Royal Collegeof Arts in London.“It was totally brilliant to study there, and if I had notbeen able to support myself in Japan, I would not be ableto do the work that has helped me get to where I am goingtoday,” he said.“I came away from my experience in Japan convincedI wanted to do a Masters to continue what I was doing.It was just mind-blowing.”The money that Hamilton, who is from Oban, receivedmade a real and practical difference, allowing him to buymaterials such as silver, rubber and plastics and to pay forcasting facilities.Because of the outlay on materials – which can behundreds of pounds at undergraduate level and significantlymore for postgraduate studies – taking a course at artschool can be far more expensive than going to university.Every year, thousands of prospective graduate andundergraduate students have a burning desire to studyat the GSA, but it is a sad fact that money – not talent –is often the insurmountable barrier that prevents themfrom taking the courses that allow them to unleash theirfull potential. >EGALITARIAN EDUCATION FOR THE TALENT OF TOMORROW7

FlOW ISSUE 102 3> However, scholarships and travel bursaries, like the oneHamilton obtained from the Friends of Glasgow School ofArt, can help turn the dreams of the next generation ofartists, designers and architects into reality.Scott Parsons, Head of Marketing and Developmentat the GSA, said:“Scholarships are a huge tool that allowpeople to study. In some US schools, 80% of the studentsare on scholarships, but that culture has not yet permeatedinto the UK.“If we want to continue to attract the best students,then scholarships are going to become more and moreimportant. Scholarships are a vote of confidence in a person.They can be completely transformational and dramaticallychange people’s lives.”Because of the international reputation of the GSA,emergent designers, architects and artists not just fromthe UK, but from other parts of the world, aspire to cometo Glasgow to study.The GSA believes access to the worldclasseducation it offers should be based on talent, abilityand the potential of applicants – not whether they canafford to pay.The School is fully aware that if it is to continueto attract the best students – locally, nationally orinternationally – then the financial barriers need to beaddressed.Who knows how many potentially brilliant youngartists, architects or designers from Scotland, the UK andoverseas, could have flourished at the GSA but did not havethe chance to enrol because they did not have the money?To address this issue, in 2002, the School set up the NextGeneration Fund to finance a portfolio of scholarships toensure financial constraints do not stop the brightest andthe best from achieving their full potential at the GSA.The Fund had a target of raising £500,000 over five years,but due to the generosity of alumni, friends and supporters ofthe School, more than £1.4m has been donated, with another£1million pledged through legacies and bequests.Thissupport has allowed the Next Generation Fund to supportundergraduate and postgraduate scholarships in threedistinct areas: international scholarships, researchscholarships, and access scholarships. It has also providedtravel bursaries that have granted a number of students,who would not normally be in a position to finance studiesabroad, the chance to undertake an international exchangeas part of their third year of study.The days when UK students received a grant are nowa distant memory and attending art school can be anexpensive undertaking.With postgraduate fees for UKand European Union students running to more than £3,000,and fees for international students – both undergraduateand postgraduate – costing more than £9,000, it is not hardto see why some aspiring students will not be able to affordto come to the GSA.Rasika Anantharaman, from Chennai, India, a first yeartextile design student is now thriving at the GSA, thanksto the assistance she received from a Governor’s OverseasScholarship.There are five Governor’s Scholarships for internationalundergraduates, and the 19-year-old says that the £2,000she receives has eased her financial struggles and allowedher to concentrate more on her studies than money.“It would have made my life really much more difficult ifI didn’t have the scholarship and I am really grateful to theSchool for helping me out,” she said.“I am still financiallydependant on my parents, but it has really helped me withmore funds for course materials.”The GSA is hoping alumni who are now enjoying thefruits of a successful career – as well as companies and otherbodies such as trusts – will consider giving something backby funding new scholarships, to build on the success of theFund.The School is aiming to at least double the amountthat has been raised over the past few years, to help buildendowment funds which will ensure scholarships can beawarded in perpetuity.There are many reasons why individuals or organisationsdecide to fund scholarships. It may be in memory of aloved one who studied at the GSA, as a thank you for theeducation they received, or because of a deep-seated beliefin the civilising benefits of higher education. But in eachcase, the money donated can be the vital differencebetween a student coming to the GSA, or giving upin despair.Interior designer Rosemary Lucas is now based inSydney,Australia, but was born and raised in Glasgow andstill remembers the inspirational time she had studyingat the GSA in the 1960s.Rosemary inherited money when her mother died in2005, and decided to use some of it to fund a scholarship togive others the chance to experience the same opportunitiesshe enjoyed.She donated £112,000 to create an annual £1,500scholarship lasting three to four years to cover maintenancecosts in perpetuity.Rosemary, whose father Lancelot Ross was a wellknownarchitect in post-war Glasgow, knows the benefitsof scholarships. She was lucky enough to receive one thatallowed her to travel to Germany and Italy to studyindustrial design after she graduated with a Diplomain Art in 1967.“Studying at The Glasgow School of Art was a veryinteresting time for me because it had a very goodreputation for design and I felt very stimulated by thepeople who taught me and the people I studied with,”she said.“Education is a very important part of people’s livesand without a sound basis in education, you cannotmove forward.“I came from a family that was modestly well-off. I got agrant and my father subsidised my living expenses, but nowit is much more of a struggle where students have to work acouple of jobs to support themselves and at the end theyhave to pay back (their loans), which is a double whammy.I want this scholarship to ease the burden of these thingsso that they do not compromise on the students’ abilityto study and train.”Alister MacCallum set up a scholarship in memory ofLilian, his wife of more than 50 years, whom he met whileshe was studying at the GSA.Lilian was from Kelso in the Borders, and although herparents were not impoverished, she found life at the ArtSchool in the late 1940s a financial struggle. Mr MacCallum,a retired lawyer, set up a £2,500 scholarship to be spreadover five years.“I hope that it might just make it possible for somestudent to do a course at The Glasgow School of Art whomight not otherwise have been able to,” he said.“Lilian was from the Borders and most people from therewent to further education in Edinburgh and I would not havemet her if she had not come to the Art School in Glasgow.I felt it was all because of her being at the Art School thatI had come to know her and be so happy with her, andI wanted to express my appreciation to the Art Schoolfor all that.”8EGALITARIAN EDUCATION FOR THE TALENT OF TOMORROW

ISSUE 10 FlOW2 Alister MacCallum and his late wifeLilian, whom he met at the GSA.3 First year textile student andGovernor Scholarship recipientRashika Anantharaman.4 Large charcoal drawing on MGpaper of a sculpture made duringthe portfolio programme.Sophie Dyer5 International students ona trip to Glencoe.6 Scott Parsons, Head of Marketing& Development, and VanessaJohnson, Head of StudentRecruitment.5For further informationabout funding ascholarship or bursary,please contact: ScottParsons, Head ofMarketing Developmentat GSA, 167 RenfieldStreet, Glasgow G3 6RQ.Tel +44 (0) 141 353 4698,email:s.parsons@gsa.ac.uk46Friends of Glasgow School of Art was set up in 1990and most of its work is directed at helping the studentsdirectly. It has around 300 members, drawn mainly fromformer members of staff and people with an interest inthe arts. One of its core philosophies is that if the GSA isto maintain its reputation as a world-class art school thenstudents must be given the opportunity to travel to thegreat centres of excellence to learn from the best.Each year, Friends donates £500 for travel bursaries andin the past couple of years it has been able to increase thisto £1,000.INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPSForeign students help create a cosmopolitan andintellectually exciting atmosphere, and the GSA is aimingto increase the number of overseas students significantly.The School is committed to attracting a wide range ofinternational students – not just the better off who canafford the fees – to establish a diverse and stimulatingenvironment where students from different backgroundsand cultures can learn from each other.The main countries the GSA is targeting are the UnitedStates, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Norway, Japan, Chinaand South Korea. But the School is also keen to establishscholarships to attract students from areas such as EasternEurope,Africa and India, so that they can add real value totheir communities when they return home after studyingin Glasgow.Vanessa Johnson, Head of Student Recruitment at GSA,said:“We want to make the student community moreinternational, but that doesn’t mean just getting in moreinternational students, it means internationalising thecurriculum and exposing home students to a moreinternational perspective.”The GSA is committed to offering additionalscholarships to attract international students that will coversome of the costs of studying in Glasgow.The School itself isfunding eight new postgraduate scholarships for overseasstudents of £2,000 each, as well as the five Governor’sscholarships for international undergraduates.The opportunity to study overseas can be a deeplyenriching experience for British students as well. Studyingthe paintings of Caravaggio or the architecture of FrankLloyd Wright is one thing, but seeing them first hand inthe Uffizi gallery in Florence or in Chicago can be trulyinspirational.Unfortunately, some less well-off home students whohave struggled to get to art school and may be workingpart-time to support themselves, miss out on thesewonderful opportunities.The WM Mann Foundation, which is based in Glasgow,gives around £50,000 a year to charities, including £1,500to the GSA to allow third year British undergraduates tostudy overseas on international exchange programmes.RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPSCreating a vibrant postgraduate community is essentialif the GSA is to build on its success in the last researchassessment exercise as one of the UK’s largest art anddesign research communities, undertaking work ofnational, and in some cases international, standing.Research is the lifeblood of any higher educationinstitution, feeding back into the taught academicprogrammes. Investing in new emergent researchers isessential if the GSA is to continue to push forward subjectboundaries, and PhD scholarships are a vital part of this.Over the next eight years, the GSA aims to increasethe percentage of students studying at Masters or PhD levelto 25%. Scholarships will play a vital role in achieving thisambitious aim, not only by funding research students duringtheir PhD, but also by providing the pathways to Phd studyby supporting students at Masters level.For every new Postgraduate programme the School aimsto have at least one, if not more, scholarships, and bothindividuals and organisations can help the GSA stay at thecutting edge of culture, research and academic theory byfunding these new Masters and PhD scholarships.ACCESS SCHOLARSHIPS“There are highly talented, very well qualified young peoplewho are unable to access higher education, so one of ourpriorities is to secure more scholarships,” said Eileen Reid,GSA’s Head of Widening Participation.The GSA has been striving to ensure more youngpeople from disadvantaged backgrounds get the chanceto experience a world-class education at the Art School.Young working-class people traditionally are moreaverse to taking on debt to fund their higher educationthan their more affluent counterparts, meaning middle-classstudents still predominate in colleges and universities.The GSA was recently ranked third in a UK table ofhigher education institutions which have successfullywidened access to young people from families who havenot traditionally attended college or university, while at thesame time maintaining very low drop out rates, one of thelowest in the UK, and excellence in teaching and research.Ensuring the most talented students get the chance tostudy at the GSA will contribute to a dynamic, diverse andvibrant student body. But just as importantly, the School islooking to fund scholarships for students studying on itssuccessful portfolio programmes, which are stepping stonesto successfully applying for an undergraduate course atuniversity.Sophie Dyer, from Durham, is celebrating being acceptedinto The Glasgow School of Art thanks to a strong portfoliobuilt up at the GSA’s two-term portfolio programme.Aftertaking a gap year, Sophie was keen to join a general portfolioprogramme to confirm her own choice of direction andto prepare a portfolio that would support her applicationto art school.However, being from Durham and only a year out ofsecondary school meant that Sophie had little in the wayof a portfolio and faced significant living costs, in additionto course fees and materials.“I’ve just been accepted into first year VisualCommunication which is fantastic. Having done theportfolio course I knew it was the course for me.”“The portfolio course is very broad and gives you a broadfoundation, I liked the drawing and design, and I’m reallyinterested in photography, I also got to speak to a lot ofstudents. It ticked all the boxes really.“I was awarded £1,000 which covered the course feesand since the portfolio course was two and a half days perweek I could go out and work for the other two and half daysa week, so it balanced itself out.”“I’m always happy to speak about the scholarship andportfolio course because without it I wouldn’t be going toart school.” ∂EGALITARIAN EDUCATION FOR THE TALENT OF TOMORROW 9

FlOW ISSUE 101 Organised chaos; the GSA studiosare frequently sited as a keycomponent to the success ofits graduates.2 Ceramic design students,AngelaPointon and Peter Keirnan, discusstheir Ceramic Roundels.TACKLING THEVOCATIONALVACuUMThe competitive graduate jobs market is making some higher education institutionsreconsider the content of academic programmes – Michael James considers how theGSA has always strived to prepare its students for the world of work.12> Higher Education, Higher Ambition (2003) – a review by the Scottish Funding Council andthe Scottish University for Industry – found that graduate employability assets are typicallytheir academic skills, personal development skills and enterprise/business skills but it alsounderlined the importance of a student’s ability to transfer the skills learned at University tothe professional occupational context. It was made clear that merely being in possession ofemployer-relevant knowledge, skills or attitudes would not be enough for an individual tomove straight in to employment.Within the creative disciplines, the importance of this is reinforced by Lesley Black,Careers Advisor at The Glasgow School of Art,“Art students tend to take longer to get intotheir first graduate position because of the nature of the work. In terms of the sector as awhole, it’s now not enough just to have a degree. Proactive students are better off in termsof employer expectation; students are expected to demonstrate that they can hit theground running.” And GSA graduates do hit the ground running – the GSA’s own GraduateDestination Survey in 2005 found a continuing high demand for GSA graduates across abroad spectrum of industries and occupations with a very high proportion finding relevantemployment within six months of graduation.The Survey also found a high level of graduatesatisfaction with the type of work gained and the preparation provided by and relevance ofGSA programmes to current and future employment prospects.When compared with other Graduate Destination Surveys, GSA graduates perform atleast as well, and for some criteria better, than similar graduates from other institutions andfrom other disciplines, so what is the secret to the GSA’s success? How do creativeinstitutions maintain such a high level of graduate employment?The Glasgow School of Art aims to be producers of mature, confident graduates throughpractice based, face to face, professionally oriented, socially engaging education – a claimsupported by the fact that nearly 90% of the School’s 1999-2004 graduates are now in fulltimeemployment, with a similar number stating that their employment is very relevant totheir degree.“Our students are very employable, virtually all of them will be employed within thefirst three months” says Sally Stewart, Undergraduate Programme Leader in Architecture.“We are always saying to students you don’t just want to get a job, you want to get the jobthat you want, so you are in competition with other architecture graduates.What are yourskills, what are you strong at and what do you want to learn next.”The School attributes a large part of this success to the value added to student studythrough a range of activities which are over and above the curriculum, described as theco-curriculum within the education sector. Jane Denholm, Director of public policyconsultancy, Critical Thinking, and author of Higher Education, Higher Ambition explainsco-curriculum quite clearly,“Co-curricular activities give a slice of the world in a safeenvironment, broadening the students experience and allowing the time to reflect onthat experience; much better than just turning up and doing the course”.By expanding the student experience and developing their career portfolio –10TACKLING THE VOCATIONAL VACUUM

ISSUE 10 FlOW1 – 4 Creative Scotland awardwinners: Kenny Hunter, HenryCoombes, Ross Sinclair and MayM Thomas5 ApplauseMark Melvin6 Destiny ChurchNORD ArchitectsAlUmNI NEWS>BRIEFINGImpressing a dragonVisual Communicationgraduate, Barbara Keenan(1997), has won a competitionled by Dragon’s Den starDuncan Bannatyne, to findthe West of Scotland's mostpromising business idea.Barbara scooped £1,000for her plans for a hand-madedesigner wedding stationerycompany RSVP.Her business idea suppliesthe stationery in kit formallowing customers to viewand order designs online.Graduates win Creative Scotland AwardsFour of the ten artists to receive Creative Scotland Awardsin 2007 are graduates of the GSA.The awards aim to reward and celebrate Scotland’sleading artists and provide them with a record of majorachievement and the opportunity to realise their creativeideas in a major project.Kenny Hunter (Sculpture, 1987), Ross Sinclair (MFA,1992), May M Thomas (Design, 1980) and Henry Coombes(Drawing and Painting, 2002) each won an award and willreceive a share of the total £30,000 prize.Previous award recipient Alison Watt (Drawing andPainting, 1982) used her prize to create Dark Light, a 2.5mmetal cube which holds a self contained exhibit that theviewer literally steps into.The Scottish Show 2007The Lighthouse is mounting The Scottish Show 2007,ahighlight of the 2007 Six Cities Design Festival featuringwork by 34 Scottish designers including 20 GSA graduatesand a member of staff.The show is being staged by The Lighthouse, Scotland’sNational Architecture and Design Centre, where it will takeover all the exhibition spaces in the building this summer.In addition six leading designers will create associatedadvertising billboards across Scotland’s six cities in May.The Scottish Show 2007 runs at The Lighthouse from17 May to12 August 2007.>BRIEFINGFashion grads in VogueVogue magazine hascommended GSA textilesgraduates Anthony Campbell(2004), Louise Gray (2004),Scott Kyle (2005), LornaMcCaw (2005) and Jamie Tetsill(2005) for their contribution toLondon Fashion Week 2007.Vogue.com said,“TheScottish Tourist board shouldstart shouting more about itspropensity to produce some ofBritain’s top fashion talents...you’d be forgiven for thinkingit was the Scottish FashionAwards”.Richard Gray, executivefashion director of 10, added,“What is the trendiest accent inLondon now? A Scottish one”.Film board celebrateslife of co-founderThe National Film Board ofCanada has released a box setof films by Painting graduateNorman McLaren (1937) calledNorman McLaren:The MastersEdition.Norman worked for 40 yearsas an animator in Canada andis credited with influencing amyriad of film-makers.Born in Scotland in 1914,Norman studied Painting at theGSA before moving to NewYork in 1939. He moved toCanada in 1941 to work for theNational Film Board (NFB) andlater founded the NFB’sanimation studio. During hiswork for the NFB, McLarencreated his most famous film,Neighbours, in 1952 which haswon awards worldwide,including the Canadian FilmAward and an Academy Award.Beasties set up shopin LondonDesign duo,Timorous Beastieshave opened up shop onLondon’s Amwell Street andplan to expand the wallpaperand fabric design business intoceramics and even contractcarpeting.Paul Simmons and AlastairMcAuley (Textiles, 1988) hitthe headlines recently withtheir Glasgow toile wallpaperwhich looked like a typicalFrench toile of idyllic countrysetting from a distance but oncloser inspection clearlyillustrated scenes of urbandeprivation and poverty.1 2 3 4Venice BiennaleThe Glasgow School of Art continues to dominate Scotland’s contribution to the Venice Biennale as five of the six artistsselected to represent their country studied at the GSA.Henry Coombes (Drawing and Painting, 2002), Louise Hopkins (MFA, 1994), Rosalind Nashashibi (MFA, 2000), Lucy Skaer(Environmental Art, 1997) and Tony Swain (Drawing and Painting, 1990) were chosen to represent Scotland in 2007.In 2005, all four artists chosen to represent Scotland were GSA graduates – Cathy Wilkes (Sculpture, 1988), Joanne Tatham(MFA, 1995),Tom O’Sullivan (MFA, 1994) and Alex Pollard (Drawing and Painting, 1999) whilst Peter Finnemore (Fine ArtPhotography, 1985) represented Wales.In 2003, 70% of the artists chosen to represent Scotland were GSA graduates including Jim Lambie (Environmental Art,1994), Simon Starling (MFA, 1992) and Claire Barclay (MFA, 1993).5Ovation for Mercury Art Prize WinnerMark Melvin (Sculpture and Environmental, 2002) has wonthe 2007 Mercury Art Prize – and £5000 – for his pieceApplause.The piece represented an artistic progression for Mark,who used his experience in audio and video based art to adda visually performative function to his early experimentationsof word-play, creating an entirely new sculptural form.Mark is now continuing to develop his cross-disciplinarywork for his degree show before beginning a residency inPrague, where he will take part in a large-scale collaborationwith international musicians and artists.6Young architect of the yearMackintosh School of Architecture graduate and founderof NORD Architects, Robin Lee (1993), was named YoungArchitect of the Year 2006 by Building Design while GarethHoskins Associates, the architectural practice of GarethHoskins (Architecture, 1993), was named the HealthBuilding Architect of the Year 2006.NORD Architects went on to win the Wexford CountyCouncil headquarters Architectural Competition 2007 –out of a total of 94 entries – to design the newheadquarters building for Wexford County Council.West end windowRosemary Beaton (Drawingand Painting, 1985), recentlyunveiled her West End Window,an 11m high mosaic of stainedglass in Glasgow’s west end.Located overlooking AshtonLane, the window took twoyears to complete and consistsof 12 different glass panels;each one depicting life aroundGlasgow’s river Clyde andKelvin.Jolomo Lloyds TSBScotland AwardSian MacQueen (Sculpture,1994) has been shortlistedfor the prestigious JolomoLloyds TSB Scotland Award.Set up by GSA alumnus JohnLowrie Morrison (Drawing &Painting, 1971), the £20,000prize encourages the art oftraditional painting in Scotland.rm* has Scottish StyleMPhil 2D/3D Motion Graphicsgraduates Debs Norton (2001)and Gaylie Runciman (2001)were awarded the Tastemakerof the Year Award 2006 at theScottish Style Awards.The award-winningdigital-media and animationcompany rm* was selected –by a panel that includedChannel 4’s Stuart Cosgroveand GQ Editor Dylan Jones –for their distinct and originalimagery and dazzling visualeffect.The Scottish Style Awardsdescribed rm* as being “At theforefront of the digital designrevolution.”ALUMNI NEWS13

FlOW ISSUE 101 SONY Bravia paint fireworks finale2 Herzog and Mr PodsnapLesley Barnes.3 Martin Izod and Philip Ross showoff the SafeHingeAlUmNI NEWS>BRIEFINGJohn Byrne play makestheatre top 20A play by Drawing andPainting graduate, John Byrne(1964), came seventh in TheScotsman newspaper’s Top 20Scottish Theatre events of alltime.The Slab Boys was selectedby a judging panel ofjournalists, theatre directorsand influential thinkers on thegrounds of impact, significanceand transforming power.Set in a Paisley carpetfactory in 1957, The Slab Boystells the story of a group ofyoung, urban, working-classScots during the late 50s.Ae Fond KissEmbroidered and WovenTextiles graduate, KarenLongmuir (1997), has openeda shop in Glasgow's QueenMargaret Drive sellingcontemporary designerjewellery, home furnishings,lighting, bespoke cards,artwork and gifts.The shop Ae Fond Kiss alsoproduces special one-offcommissions.Graduate raises moneyfor MalawiVisual Communicationgraduate, Ryan Mutter (2001),has sold a painting of childrenin Malawi to millionaire SirTom Hunter for £5,000 at acharity auction organised bySt Andrew’s Trust.Ryan was invited to Africaby the trust during which timehe compiled a photographicjournal.Ryan said,“I have met thepeople this money will behelping so it is really goodto have done something thatwill make a difference andhelp the kids.”Spirit of ScotlandMFA graduate, Claire Barclay(1993), has won theGlenfiddich Spirit of ScotlandArt Award 2006. Claireexplores craft and industrialprocesses, assemblingcommon and preciousmaterials into beautiful andmenacing installations.1Glasgow in Colour for SONY BraviaProduct Design Engineering graduate, James Lapsley (1999), helped stun worldwide TV audiences as Art Director of the£1m Sony Bravia paint-fireworks advertisement.Working for Director Jonathan Glazer and production designer Chris Oddy – who had spent months testing paint andpyrotechnics with special effects company Asylum – James and his Glasgow based art department worked for over fiveweeks to turn over 70,000 litres of paint and 348 bottle bombs into a colossal visual masterpiece.With each different sequence shot on a different day, and a days footage output of just 12 seconds – shot in a fourhour light window – James faced an enormous task.James said,“It was a very difficult project logistically and financially; initial estimates of what was involved went outthe window.“We refurbished the derelict tower block and adjacent tenement, replaced over 400 windows, put up 1km of curtains,buried 20 5ft steel cannons in each garden, put bushes and grass in every garden to hide the cannons, laid a football fieldof turf, dug over 50 6ft holes to bury various cannons and paint containers, covered nearby buildings in tarpaulin and thencovered it all in 70,000 litres of paint.”James has recently finished designing Shrink Rap for Channel 4 (shown on more4), will be designing a new children’skids TV show for the BBC and is currently in negotiations for a feature film in the late summer.Double award for Herzog and the MonstersMPhil 2D/3D Graphics graduate, Lesley Barnes (2006),has won the ANIMEX Motion Graphics Award 2007 at theInternational Festival of Animations and Computer Games,and BAFTA Scotland’s Scottish Student on Screen Award2007, for her animated fairytale Herzog and the Monsters.As a collector of orange Penguin books,director/animator, Lesley, was inspired by her fondmemories of picture books and the interaction between thewords and illustrations – particularly Maurice Sendak’sWhere the Wild Things Are – and set out to recreate therelationship in animated form by incorporating typographywith animated illustrations.Since graduating, Lesley has worked with Ko Lik filmsin Edinburgh on two of their films – most recently HauntedHogmanay shown on BBC2 – and has recently signed up asa director for an adverts production company in London.SafeHingeProduct Design Engineering graduate, Philip Ross (2006),won the top prize of £2000 at the Ideal Home Show'sConcept Product competition.The innovative SafeHinge completely eliminates thechance of hinge-side finger trapping.The hinge, built intothe door and frame, covers the dangerous gap potentiallypreventing hundreds of domestic accidents and digitamputations in the UK each year.The invention came about after former Yorkhill casualtyconsultant, Nanjappachetty Doraiswamy, approached theGSA for a way to prevent the injuries he worked with formore than 40 years.Philip Ross and business partner, Martin Izod (PDE, 2006)formed SafeHinge Ltd to develop the home safety idea andnow hope to save the NHS £200million and bring in ordersfrom schools and builders globally.GSA graduate wins Glasgow 1999 MedalStuart Gordon, Interior Design graduate (2006) has won the Glasgow 1999 Design Medal for his proposed redevelopmentof the neglected Gillespie Kidd and Coia Cardross Seminary into a children's hospice.Judges praised his ‘strong and poetic interventions’ saying he created spaces that deal with the site and the social fabricin a sensitive way’.Gordon was not the only GSA student to be shortlisted for the Medal. 60% of the young designers shortlisted were GSAgraduates and a further two Cardonald College entrants are now studying at the GSA.23>BRIEFINGIn Memoriam:> Donald Forbes (Drawingand Painting, 1972), a seniorpaintings conservator at theNational Galleries of Scotlandfor 26 years, has died aged 54.After five years at theKelvingrove Art Gallery andMuseum, Donald became thefirst Scottish Museums Councilpaintings conservator and in1989 became paintingsconservator for the NationalGalleries of Scotland.> Inverness CityPartnership’s first Public ArtCoordinator, Evi Westmore(MFA 2005), has died aged 31.Evi played a leading role incommissioning and managingartists on a wide range ofprojects including the Centrefor Health Sciences, the NessIslands EnhancementProgramme and the CityCentre StreetscapingProgramme.> Architect, urban designerand community councillor,Alan Stewart, who studied atthe GSA for seven years underan apprenticeship with theGlasgow Corporation, hasdied aged 98.Alan worked with theCumbernauld DevelopmentCorporation and will be bestremembered for hiscontribution to a number ofcommunity councilsthroughout Glasgow.> GSA graduate, AllanBarns-Graham, who helpedestablish the Gisborne ArtistsSociety and the GisborneMuseum and Arts Centre, NewZealand, has died aged 100.Born in Gisborne in 1906,Alan studied at Llam inChristchurch, the GSA andthe Slade in London beforebecoming an official war artistfor the New Zealand Army.New StudentRecruitment FilmThe School has made a newfilm illustrating life at theGSA and the employmentopportunities that are availableto graduates of such aprestigious, creative institution.If you are a teacher or memberof an educational institutionand wish to receive a copy ofthe film, please contactRecruitment Manager JacquieCoyle, tel: 0141 353 4645 oremail j.coyle@gsa.ac.uk.14ALUMNI NEWS

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FlOW ISSUE 101 Eric Mendelsohn’s exhibition,Dynamics and Function, in theMackintosh GalleryEvents1GSA exhibitiOns17 Aug – 15 Sept 2007Emergent Artists: IainHeatherington, Lynn HyndStdio 40, Mackintosh BuildingThe second exhibition of newwork by the new EmergentArtist progamme at the GSA.4 Sept – 15 Sept 2007Private View: 3 SeptCeramics: Distance LearnersAtrium GalleryMonday toThursday:10am – 7pmFriday: 10am – 5pmSaturday: 10am – 1pmWork by undergraduatestudents on the CeramicDepartment’s DistanceLearner programme.18 Sept – 29 Sept 2007Private View: 17 SeptJack CunninghamAtrium GalleryMonday toThursday:10am – 7pmFriday: 10am – 5pmSaturday: 10am – 1pmThe culmination of six yearspart-time doctoral of research,this exhibition explores allaspects of Cunningham’spractice based work processand contextualises his outputwithin a European framework.5 Oct – 3 Nov 2007The Fine Art Staff ShowMackintosh GalleryMonday toThursday:10am – 7pmFriday: 10am – 5pmSaturday: 10am – 1pmThe annual exhibition of workby The Glasgow School of Artstaff which sets out tocelebrate the artistic richnessof the School of Fine Art bypresenting a cross-section ofthe work produced by staff.11 Oct – 10 Nov 2007Private View: 10 OctGlen Taylor“Re-presenting Ethiopia”Atrium GalleryMonday toThursday:10am – 7pmFriday: 10am – 5pmSaturday: 10am – 1pmAn exploration of the useof drawing/text combinedillustrations as a basis ofintercultural communicationbetween communities inEthiopia and Britain.October 2007Imaginery MuseumMackintosh Gallery20 Nov – 15 Dec 2007Private View: 19 NovSophie Wang“Transparent Eye”Atrium GalleryMonday toThursday:10am – 7pmFriday: 10am – 5pmSaturday: 10am – 1pmAn exhibition of art thatexplores human perceptionand preconceptions of thenatural world. Informed by theexperience of living in the‘foothills of the ScottishHighlands’ for the last tenyears, her work is inspired bynotions of ‘the real’ and howimagery can mediate ourrelationship to nature.Nov 2007 – Mar 2008Craig MulhollandMackintosh GalleryNov 2007 – Jan 2008Jerwood Drawing PrizeMackintosh GalleryThe Jerwood Drawing prizeis the UK’s leading drawingaward and is the largest opendrawing exhibition in the UK.Contact Information:The Glasgow School of Art167 Renfrew StreetGlasgow G3 6RQwww.gsa.ac.ukFor further information, orpress images please contactKathy Chambers or GráinneRice at The Glasgow Schoolof Art Exhibitions Office on0141 353 4525 or emailk.chambers@gsa.ac.uk org.rice@gsa.ac.ukGot an event you’dlike to publicise?The new Glasgow Eventscalendar is easy and free touse, simply upload the detailsof your exhibition and it willbecome part ofwww.glasgowartevents.org.uk,an online exhibition agendafor artists and aficionadosinterested in the shows goingon in and around Glasgow.Log on for the latest…the fridayeventThe School of Fine Art’s everpopular‘Friday Event’ attractsa range of speakers from theUK and around the world toThe Glasgow Film Theatre onselected Fridays and is opento students, alumni and allmembers of the public.The high calibre of speakershave included: award-winningjournalist Robert Fisk,performance artist MarinaAbramovic, Belgian filmmakerChantal Akerman,ArtisticDirector of Documenta OkwuiEnwezor,‘Vision and Visuality’author Professor Hal Fosterand Turner Prize winner SimonStarling.The Friday Event continuesthroughout the term. Log onto www.gsa.ac.uk/fridayeventto find out about futureFriday Events.To confirm the date and timeof speaker, please contact TaraBeall on t.beall@gsa.ac.ukvisit usAND SUPPORT FUTURE ARTISTSOctober 19 2007Eyal WeizmanGlasgow Film TheatreEyal Weizman is an architect,author, and curator, whosework deals with issues ofconflict, territories and humanrights, and has pioneeredresearch on the ‘militaryurbanism’ of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.His work has forced a newcritique of what occupationmeans in an architectural andurban sense, where space isinherently political and "thefrontier" of occupied territoryis constructed as much bymilitary generals as it is byplanners and intellectuals.October 26 2007Haley NewmanGlasgow Film TheatreThroughout the 1990s HayleyNewman’s uniqueperformance work has beendeliberately varied; workingwith sound, text andphotography she has evolveda practice that is bothexpressive and analytical.November 9 2007Jan VerwoertGlasgow Film TheatreJan Verwoert is a contributingeditor of frieze and teaches atthe Piet Zwart Institute inRotterdam. He writes for frieze,Springerin,Afterall and CameraAustria and his book Bas JanAder – In Search of theMiraculous was published in2006 by Afterall Books/MITPress. He is a member of theadvisory board of theKunstverein Munich and aguest professor ofContemporary Art and Theoryat the Academy of Umeå.dailySuMMerTOurs1Oam, 11am, 12pm,1pm, 2pm, 3pmand 4pmShop open 7 days:9.30am – 5pmPrivate tours and grouptours happily arrangedContact: shop@gsa.ac.ukor 0141 353 4526 tomake a bookingEvery purchasesupports the School.16 EVENTS