Instant Whip: revisiting the textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, 1977–1987 is a new project that focuses on Scotland’s fashion and textiles history through engagement with material held in a unique collection held in The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Archives and Collections, donated by textile artist Fraser Taylor in 2014. The collection encompasses drawings, […] The post Instant Whip: The Textiles and Papers of Fraser Taylor 1977–87 appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

Judith Booth from the Coastal Communities Museum in North Berwick, East Lothian has kindly written a blog about Catherine Watson, a former GSA student who gave her life to save three drowning children off the North Berwick coastline in 1889.  An exhibition to commemorate Catherine was opened at the Museum last year and has been […] The post Catherine Watson – A Commemoration appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

Our intern, Javier Garcia, tells us about the work he undertook cataloguing and digitising the papers of Archibald Haswell Miller. Before undertaking my internship with the Archives and Collections, I knew little of The Glasgow School of Art beyond its position as an elite academic institution, and the prominent place it has held within the […] The post The Papers of Archibald Haswell Miller appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

Following Kiah Endleman Music’s blog here, you can read the full transcript of the song here: GSAA/DIR/5/38: ‘Dumble-Dum-Dearie or How Fra Newbery Got His Cloak and Hat; The School of Art Song’, unauthored [1916]. DUMBLE-DUM-DEARIE. or HOW FRA NEWBERY GOT HIS CLOAK AND HAT. THE SCHOOL OF ART SONG.   Oh! Mackintosh – he built […] The post ‘Dumble-Dum-Dearie or How Fra Newbery got his Cloak and Hat. The School of Art Song’: Part Two appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

In this week’s blog post, SGSAH student Kiah Endelman Music tells us about a somewhat unexpected find in GSA’s institutional ephemera collection… Whilst sifting through a folder comprised largely of student postcards and exhibition catalogues, I came across an unexpected item – an envelope of material relating to the Newbery family that had somehow made […] The post ‘Dumble-Dum-Dearie or How Fra Newbery got his Cloak and Hat. The School of Art Song’: Part One appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

In this blog post, SGSAH PhD intern, Molly McCracken shares works created by former student Mary Anderson Ramsay, which have recently been added to the Archives and Collections Catalogue (DC 110). Ramsay’s deposited collection features a range of sketchbooks and loose artworks produced during her studies at GSA from 1914-1923. These works include architectural drawings, […] The post The Mary Ramsay Collection appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

Ella Grad-Arndt tells us about her experience as a Work Placement with GSA Archives and Collections, cataloguing the collection of Sidney Wesley Birnage. I recently had the opportunity to work on a few collections at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Archives and Collections for a work placement for my Master’s in Art History at […] The post The Papers of Sidney Wesley Birnage appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

One of the more recent collections to go onto our catalogue is that of former GSA student and knitwear designer CA Wallace Shaw. The collection was catalogued by summer intern student Jessie Campbell, and Jessie tells us here about his life and work. One of the most intriguing things about working within an archive is […] The post The papers of CA Wallace Shaw, knitwear designer appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

This exhibition is a showcase of key projects over the 30 years of the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit (MEARU) and the impact that they had. It demonstrates how the MEARU’s work has improved living conditions for people living in social housing and informed updates to the building regulations for housing improvements, highlighting how they […] The post 30 Years of MEARU – Improving Energy, Comfort and Health in Housing appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more

Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland’s most celebrated artists, best known for her depictions of Glasgow’s street children and of Scotland’s North East coastline. This exhibition offers the opportunity to see Eardley’s early works, for which she is lesser known in order to show the ways in which her formative time at The Glasgow School of Art […] The post Early Eardley appeared first on GSA Archives & Collections ..read more