Optician-Artist
Last week, when exploring Kelvingrove Art Gallery with my wife Sian, this painting stopped me in my tracks: Two figures at a fence, Islay, 1904 by John Quinton Pringle. John … Continue reading Optician-Artist
Tag: Glasgow School of Art
of absence and presence
In 1855, Duncan Brown, Janitor for the Glasgow School of Art and pioneering amateur photographer, took a photograph of five men and two boys in a garden . . . … Continue reading of absence and presence
The soul and the operator
Image: Photograph from 1910 of a basement corridor in the Glasgow School of Art Words: John Berger [on Art]
of absence and presence
In 1855, Duncan Brown, Janitor for the Glasgow School of Art and pioneering amateur photographer, took a photograph of five men and two boys in a garden . . . … Continue reading of absence and presence
Fashion Show
This short film is based on some of the posters made, over many years, by students of The Glasgow School of Art. Fashion Show: To play this short film please … Continue reading Fashion Show
UPROOTED
I have been exploring the archives of the Glasgow School of Art. In doing so I have come across a pioneer photographer. Duncan Brown [1819-1897] was a pioneer amateur photographer. … Continue reading UPROOTED
Altyre
I was delighted to find on re-visiting Altyre estate, that the Home Farm, once so weel kent tae my family, has recently opened as an Innovation School for The Glasgow … Continue reading Altyre