Summary
SET PROUDLY behind a stone and iron railing, battered steps lead the way into Glasgow School of Art. Inside, the Scottish baronial architecture and Art Nouveau motifs silently boast of the man who created it: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a former student and architect of the school's main building.
Upstairs, GSA director Professor Seona Reid's office demonstrates the art school's position more than a century on. Degree show paintings and drawings litter the walls; a work by Rosalind Nashashibi - the first woman to win the Beck's Futures art prize, in 2003 - sits propped up on one side, waiting for a new home.See the full content of this document
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Glasgow School in a Class of Its Own
With a CV listing some of the most high-profile arts jobs in the UK, Reid is a leading figure on the Scottish arts scene. Raised in Glasgow on a literary diet of Reader's Digest - "which I read avidly" - her artistic influences were largely developed as a student. During her time at the University of Strathclyde, she founded Strathc...
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