Glasgow School of Art

That they haven't got the right to be there.

Yeah, and I think there was an element of me that I knew I was very, in fact, I remember at my college that they assumed that I should be going to Glasgow Art School, which was very highly regarded and quite rightly so.

But I think I felt this yearning to, I knew that there was a theatrical element that I wanted to do.

And so I went, I did a foundation course in York and then I applied to go to, um central st martin's which at the time had just amalgamated and they had a very um a course on it that was like didn't take many people that did sort of theater and scene scenery and costume design and tv design it was very difficult to get into you had to come up with like four portfolios or something and i didn't I was too young, I was very young for my year and I didn't get in the first year and I went to university for a year and then I went back to apply and I got in.

Yeah.

and you'd be better for it yeah but yeah and I did enjoy the fact that you guys tried to apply was it the Glasgow School of Art one of your teddy bears yeah

yeah

because you guys were down in Carlisle wasn't it

But we hanged around a lot in Glasgow, for example.

We loved it.

And yeah, we applied to Glasgow School of Art by chance.

Making this, we bought this second hand toy teddy bear and we remade him into looking more mean and we put in a steel skeleton.

Louise Beacon grew up in the Orkney Isles off the north coast of Scotland, and she picked up the fiddle when she was just seven years old.

She sharpened her skills in Glasgow's session scene while studying at the Glasgow School of Art that earned a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Today, she's a Scottish musician and photographer living in the US, and she uses both to tell stories old and new.

Her music blends traditional and classical arrangements, and it's thoughtful, curious, and playful all at once.

And we record this episode in Omar's home in East London.

Omer has held curatorial roles at Whitechapel Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Sharjah Art Foundation and is now a professor at the Glasgow School of Art.

Across exhibitions, books and their own artistic practice, they explore how art carries personal experience into a wider history.

Our starting point today will be fellow travelers, the exhibition Omar has conceived and curated at Tabari in Dubai.

together.

I first discovered Art and Fashion Week last year during my final year studying fashion design at the Glasgow School of Art and I knew straight away that I really wanted to be involved.

At the time I was preparing to move home to Belfast where the creative scene is brilliant but the fashion community is relatively small.

And so the prospect of creating something independently without the support of university was both daunting and exciting, particularly if that meant making something about home and being able to showcase it at home.

News, on Monday 19th October.

The Glasgow School of Art refuses to reveal its eight-year scaffolding bill.

An article written by Amy Miles.

The Glasgow School of Art is keeping its eight-year scaffolding bill secret.

Bosses have formally refused to reveal how much has been spent encasing the McIntosh building since the devastating 2018 blaze.

The celebrated Renfrew Street landmark has been wrapped in a massive steel support cage for more than eight years, while uncertainty continues over its reconstruction.

The request sought annual figures for hire, erection, inspection, maintenance, alteration and dismantling, alongside ongoing weekly hire fees and contractor details.

Officials at the art school rejected the request on 15 October, claiming that disclosure would damage business interests.

It can be whatever.

And I think that I got the biggest taste of it when Glasgow School of Art did Dream On.

which was for Shakespeare's 400th, the anniversary of his death.

And so Dream On was between Glasgow School of Art, Royal Conservatoire, University of Glasgow and BBC Arts.

And I did everything in my power to be the student curator and I was successful.

So myself and my little team, I had to look at artworks, not only from Glasgow Art School here, but also Glasgow School of Art Singapore.

And we were given a space in the University of Glasgow and I got to do curating from the ground up.

We had obviously lecturers that were involved with it, so it wasn't me doing all this on my own.