See a vivid selection of our Ted Odling material (Archive Reference DC 090) at GSA Library until August! You can also visit our Pinterest board for a sneak preview of what’s on display. This material was chosen to celebrate a larger exhibition of material by Ted and his wife Elizabeth which runs until the 31st of October at Lismore Heritage Centre on the Isle of Lismore. Born Henry Edward Odling in 1921, Ted Odling first
In our latest blog, we look at two of our schools’ activities where we’ve invited you to “design your own…” These activities form part of our series of activities for kids (and the young at heart!) based around items from our collections. We have been inviting people to post their own artwork in reply to our posts, or to post and tag us with @GSAArchives or #GSAArchives. The “design your own…” activities take bright and
GSA Learning Resources have installed a new library display showcasing the work of former Graphic Design student Lindsay Winning, and related graphic design books. Why not pop along to the top floor of the GSA library and have a look! The display was recently installed in the library and will be in place for a few months Lindsay Winning (now Wadey) was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1963-1967. During her time
What a weird and wonderful collection of skeletons the Archives and Collections have managed to find in our proverbial closets! Well, perhaps more archive boxes than closets really… Our team have picked different spooky items from the collection to mark Halloween 2017 so come and have a look at what’s lurking in our plan chest drawers… First up, our Archives and Collections manager Susannah Waters chose this image from circa 1910 of two GSA students,
Jennifer Lightbody is back on the blog to tell you all a little bit about the Cohort Day she hosted for the other Cohort Three trainees part of the Opening Up Scotland’s Archives programme and how this ties in with her Audio Visual Project! As part of the Skills for the Future traineeship, each organisation hosts the other trainees for a day visit, showing them round our collections, telling the other trainees about our projects and often undertaking
The Glasgow School of Art staff and students have celebrated Christmas since the School’s opening by producing Christmas balls, theatre productions, fairs and beautifully illustrated cards to send to one another. In this exhibition the GSA Archives and Collections presents a selection of these materials including photographs, ephemera and cards made by GSA staff and students spanning over 100 years of the School’s history. The earliest design for a Christmas card shown here dates from
Emma Carey, one of the GSA Archives and Collections project volunteers recaps her recent work cataloguing and packaging a new archive acquisition, student work by Lindsay Wadey. Lindsay Wadey (née Winning) was a student at the Glasgow School of Art from 1963 to 1967. This year, she has kindly donated her student portfolio to the GSA Archives and Collections. During her time at GSA, she studied in the General Course before going into the Graphics
Continuing with the series of podcasts created by Debi Banerjee for the project New Wave: Materials, Methods and Media, Glasgow School of Art 1970-1986, Episode 2 ‘Section Five’ was released this Monday. Continuing on from Episode 1 ‘First Things First’, this episode looks at Section Five, an experimental first year course that was run by Ted Odling (see previous post: The Science of Art) in 1962. You can listen to the second episode here!
For those regular readers of the blog, you will know that today is the beginning of a two day conference on Material Culture and its study here at the Glasgow School of Art. As part of this conference the exhibition curated by Debi Banerjee and Susannah Waters, Art School in Action is now open! Alongside the exhibition Debi and Susannah are also hosting a series of workshops, the first of which is ‘Section Five Visual Perception’.
This week the GSA Archives are looking at some recently discovered materials that cross the boundaries between science and art in celebration of this, the last week of the Glasgow Science Festival! Recently we have been fortunate enough to receive a number of materials from a previous staff member of the school, one Mr Ted Odling. These materials include notes and class props for student tuition on aspects of colour theory and optics. Ted Odling
