INSIDE the archives of Glasgow School of Art (GSA), there’s a room filled with chairs – a number of them designed by famous Scottish architect…
Inside the archives of iconic Scottish creative Alasdair Gray
“We have so many artefacts, paintings, objects and posters. There’s artworks on paper and sketchbooks.One of the archive’s proudest achievements was its involvement with the project to restore the iconic lights which used to hang in the Mackintosh library.An excavation following the fire recovered over 630 fragments of metal and, after a three year-restoration project, 11 of the 13 lights were created using entirely original parts.
She was a member of the Glasgow Girls – a group of women artists and designers active at the turn of the twentieth century. Inside one drawer is a necklace made out of seaweed. “We’ve got to keep down with the kids”, Christie says, laughing. That seaweed necklace though is a far-cry from documents explaining the risks associated with drawing live animals which was made possible through the presence of Hengler’s Circus in Glasgow.
“We also have an inquiry service and get about 80 of those a month which can be anything from people interested in an exhibition to asking us to do research.
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