Art students get to showcase work months after fire
THE world-famous Glasgow School of Art degree show will get under way today, three months after it was postponed due to the fire that ravaged the Mackintosh building.
The annual showcase of work by 400 GSoA postgraduate students, which is normally staged in June, has been transferred to venues in the Merchant City.
Students from programmes that would normally show work in the Reid Building – Architecture, Design, Innovation and Simulation & Visualisation (SimVis) – will now have their exhibition in the Garment Factory on Montrose Street.
Fine Art students will unveil their colourful paintings, sculptures and installations in the Tontine Building as usual.
Among the work on show in the Garment Factory will be illustrator Helen Kellock, who has been snapped up by one of the world’s leading publishers, with her children’s book, that was inspired by a night-time journey through Pollok Park.
Amal Amzan has created an app entitled ‘Just tell us what we need to know,’ for MS patients, which aims to cut through the medical jargon and help weigh up the pros and cons of new medication.
The fire tore through the art school building on the night of June 15, devastating the Glasgow community and fans of the renowned Glasgow architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, world-wide.
It came four years after a smaller fire at the school in 2014. The institution was in the tailend of reconstruction. Residents and businesses in the surrounding area were finally able to start returning to their homes and properties last week.
Tom Inns, director of GSoA, has vowed that the Mackintosh Building will be rebuilt as a fully working art school. The cost is expected to run to £100million.