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Graduated from the GSA in 2017 and invited to exhibit as a ‘rising star’ at the New Designer exhibition in the same year.

Born in Wishaw, McAllister studied painting at the GSA from 1931-1936 where he met future animator, Norman McLaren at the Kinecraft Society. The two produced "Seven Till Five" (1933), a look at a day in the life of Glasgow Art School, (now held by the NLS Moving Image Archive) its rhythmic cutting inspired by their interest in Soviet film.

After a scholarship-funded European tour, McAllister followed McLaren into the GPO Film Unit (later the Crown Film Unit) in 1937 where he worked on stills, posters and graphics. There he met Humphry Jennings and the two went on to form a close director-editor partnership, producing a series of films including “London can take it”, “Listen to Britain” and ‘Fires were Started.” He later worked as a senior editor and producer for British Transport Films until his death from Liver Cancer in 1962.

James McAllister was born in Glasgow in 1883. McAllister attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1899 to 1902 as a part-time student of Architecture. During the First World War, McAllister served in the Lancashire Fusiliers regiment as a Captain. He died in 1954. McAllister is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; the Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

Jenny McAlister was born in 1887 and studied at The Glasgow School of Art in session 1914-15. She attended evening classes where she studied drawing and painting. She resided in Langside and her occupation is listed as teacher.

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Believed to be the Mayer who was son of Samuel Mayer, a tanner and currier, and born at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, in 1803. At the age of twenty. Joseph settled in Liverpool as a jeweller and goldsmith: successful in business, he was able to indulge his passion for collecting. Mayer retired from business in 1873, and died unmarried at Pennant House, Bebington, Cheshire, on 19 January 1886, aged 82. His private library, prints and manuscripts were dispersed by auction in 1887

Tom Maxwell was an etcher who created mainly landscape, topographic and harbour scenes. He was a student at The Glasgow School of Art between 1897-1900. He exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art widely between 1906-1937.

The son of a draper, Maxton was born in Perth, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1899, when he was 21, until 1904.
Maxton gave several addresses whilst at Glasgow School of Art, including "c/o Mrs. Nutton, 97 North Frederick Street", and "c/o G. Ronald, 191 Albert Road".
Maxton worked as an interior designer, before moving to Edinburgh to work as a watercolourist concentrating on Scottish landscapes. In 1936 He exhibited "Springtime by Old Crammond Bridge" at the Royal Scottish Academy, giving his address as 39 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh.

James Mavor (1854-1925) was a Scottish-Canadian economist. He studied at the University of Glasgow and later taught for some time in a Glasgow College. He took an interest in the Art world and was an editor for 'Scottish Art Review'. He was also one of the founder members of the Socialist League along with William Morris. Mavor served as a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto from 1892-1923. He was a friend of Fra Newbery and introduced Newbery to William Morris. The Fisher Library at the University of Toronto holds correspondence between Mavor and Morris and Mavor and Newbery.

Veronica Matthew was a student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s where she graduated with a Diploma in Art. She was close friends with Alasdair Gray and Valerie Bloomfield-Ambrose during this time. She painted watercolours and created textiles including embroidery.

She lived in Glasgow and East London. In 1971, she attended the St Albans School of Art to train in art therapy which was in its third year of inception. By this time, she had acquired 10 years of teaching experience including seven of the years in "Special Schools" in Glasgow. She was the first teacher employed by the Education Department in Glasgow to teach art to children with special needs in various schools. This included teaching children who were deaf, had cerebral palsy, and had learning difficulties. Her training at St Albans consisted of lectures on psychiatry, psychology, and causes and treatments of brain damage. She would also visit hospitals frequently with her classmates to learn more on how to help them. She had two placements in this programme including one in Edinburgh, where she worked with epileptic patients, and in Roehampton in London, where she worked with people with mental illnesses and special needs. After finishing this education as an art therapist, she worked for the Social Work Department in Tower Hamlets in East London. As her employers were unequipped to take on an art therapist, there were various challenges at the start but over time, solutions were found and compromises made.

In 1981, she returned to Glasgow, after her father had had a stroke. In 1982 and 1983, she worked for the Third Eye Centre as a coordinator for an organization called Project Ability. Project Ability was started by Ellie Sinclair-Hall who suffered from multiple sclerosis; her goal was to highlight the talents of people with disabilities and demonstrate their artistic prowess. They hosted a three-week long showcase of performance, exhibitions, films, plays, talks, music, and workshops. People came from all over the United Kingdom and abroad to see this project and take part in it. Veronica was the co-ordinator for the project. Project Ability is now a very successful arts organization providing a creative outlet for many disabled people and fulfilling Ellie’s dream. After this project, Veronica returned to art therapy on a sessional basis at the Glasgow Association for Mental health and at a day centre in Maryhill. She fondly remembered her time in London with Jewish people who had escaped persecution in Eastern Europe and Russia. She was happy to have been able to help so many struggling people find light. Veronica passed away in March 2024.

Christina M Matheson was born in Glasgow on 17th December 1893, one of ten children of Christina and Donald Matheson. Matheson attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1916 as a student of design in her first year, when she received the senior art bursary, and then drawing and painting in her second, when she received a bursary of three pounds, and third years. Her registered address was Roslea Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Born in Oban, Scotland in 1965, Mather graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University and has since received worldwide recognition for her silver sculptures. Her love of wildlife is evident in her beautifully detailed work which can be seen in many galleries including the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, America and Japan. She has also worked to commission for both public and private collections. Her work includes small scale Silversmithing objects, jewellery, decorative boxes, sculptures and paper knives. Principally made from silver that is initially textured with punches and stamps, her work is then patinated and polished.. Mather’s pieces all start life as a flat sheet of silver, onto which she then pieces out the body parts, rather like a dress pattern. She then stamps the silver to give fur and texture using handmade punches. These separate pieces are then formed over small stakes, and gradually built up using soldering. This usually involved around thirty soldering’s, down to the smallest parts such as hooves and toe nails. The final piece is then patinated in a chemical bath, which gives black, brown and petrol colours to the piece. It is then polished with a small bur to give highlights, skin patterns and textures, finishing with enamel paint and gold powder. Lastly, the piece is varnished.

Jonathan Masson studied Textiles at GSA from 1974 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Edinburgh topographical artist who often painted castles. Exhibited RSA (21), including Scene on the Marquis of Lothian's Grounds, Newbattle, 1846.

Marie Claire Marzaroli (now MacCabe) studied at GSA in the 1980s and modelled in the 1984 fashion show.

As at July 2017, she is a teacher in Coatbridge and an artist. She is the daughter of renowned Glaswegian photographer Oscar Marzaroli.

Sources: BBC Media Centre https://tinyurl.com/y7ckygep; The Saleroom https://tinyurl.com/y7wd47fh; Daily Record https://tinyurl.com/ycdk4hxt

William Forbes Martin was born on 27th April 1892. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student. Martin's occupation was as a clothing salesman and his registered address was Eaglesham Street. Martin served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He enlisted at Yorkhill Parade, Glasgow on 24th April 1915. Martin's service records state that he was "irregularly promoted" to the rank of Sergeant in October 1915, was then reverted back to Private, but was then later reinstated to Sergeant in the later years of the war. Martin married in December 1915.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Isobel Joan Martin was born on 3rd September 1895. She was one of two children of Andrew Martin, a house factor. Martin attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1916 as a student of design and drawing and painting. Her registered address was Cambridge Drive, Glasgow. Her occupation was listed as a clerkess on the 1921 voter registration on Ancestry.

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Source: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Isabella H Martin was born on 23rd September 1877. Her name is on The Glasgow School of Art register for the session 1914-1915 but "not coming" is noted by her name. Martin's occupation was as an assistant teacher. Her registered address was Kersland Street and Martin and her family (Mrs Jane and Mary F) are on the Glasgow electoral register for this address from 1918 to 1919.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Grace Martin was born on 29th June 1896. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student. Martin's occupation was listed as teacher and her registered address was Crossburn Street.

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Edwin Martin was born in Forfar on the 10th of February 1874 to Helen Martin (née Souter) and James Martin, a master grocer. He studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1906 to 1912. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Winifred Margaret Marshall was born on 18th October 1889. Marshall attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1920 as a day student of design and then drawing and painting. Her registered address was Dunard, Stirling but was in the care of Wylie on Sauchiehall Street for 1916-1917 and then Gardner on Great Western Road for 1917-1918.

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James Marshall was born on 3rd June 1899. His name appears on The Glasgow School of Art register for the session 1914-1915 but there is a line scored through the entry and "not coming this session" is noted. Marshall's occupation was listed as glass stainer. His registered address was Dobbie's Loan.

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Henry Stanley Marshall was born in Sheffield on 1st October 1896 to Annie Elizabeth (Mary) and James S Marshall. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1916 as an evening student of drawing and painting. His occupation was listed as lithographer. Marshall was from Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield, but was in the care of Robinson on Woodlands Road, when in Glasgow. Marshall served in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and then the Royal Sussex Regiment during the First World War. His service records state he enrolled in 1917 but his physical development and vision was "poor" and was "fit for service at home only". In April 1918 he was transferred to the Supply Branch as a clerk. Marshall was discharged from the Army in January 1919.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

James Mars was born on the 30th of October 1892 in the Blythswood area of Glasgow, one of 7 sons and 3 daughters to Eliza McEwan Mars (nee McEwan ) and James Mars (Snr.), a sign painter. The family resided at 20 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow.

By 1911-12, the family had moved to 19 Rosehall Street, Glasgow, and James (Jnr.) attended evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1911-1912, citing his occupation as an Apprentice Signwriter. The classes he attended were in Drawing & Painting under the tutelage of Mr. Ogilvie.

In August 1914, James enlisted in the 8th Battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) at 149 Cathedral Street, Glasgow. The battalion moved initially to Grangemouth before sailing from Liverpool on 24 May 1915, going via Egypt to Gallipoli, arriving there 14 June 1915.

After taking heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign, the 7th battalion temporarily merged with the 8th battalion before both resumed their identities on 21 February 1916.

Then in January 1916, both battalions moved via Mudros back to Egypt.

Sergeant James Mars was killed in action on 24th November 1917 in Egypt, aged twenty-five.

He is buried in Jerusalem, Israel.

James Mars is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.; Ancestry.co.uk; Find My Past: http://www.findmypast.co.uk; The Long Long Trail: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk

Helen Marriott is a former head of Silversmithing and Jewellery at Glasgow School of Art. She studied Silversmithing at Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.

Catherine (Jeanie) Marley was born on 24th August 1887. Her name is on The Glasgow School of Art register for the session 1914-1915 as an evening student of drawing and painting but a line is scored through the entry and "cancelled" is noted. Marley's occupation was as a teacher. Her registered address was Gourlay Street.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

The Marimekko Corporation is a Finnish textiles and clothing company that was established in 1951 as the Marimekko Textile Company. Its operations are based on the original Marimekko brand and the Marimekko concept, which is derived from the brand and represents the company's lifestyle thinking. There are three product lines: clothing, interior decoration and accessories.
Marimekko was founded by Armi and Viljo Ratia. The company's business concept emerged from a strong desire to create something new, unique, long-lasting and beautiful for post-war Finland.
The 1960s saw a rapid growth in the business operations of the company and its rise to international prominence. Following a restructuring programme in the late 1960s, the company transferred its operations to its own works site in Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Finland in 1973. The company was taken over by the Amer Group in 1991.

Mick Manning was born in 1959, grew up in Yorkshire and studied Art at Bradford and then Newcastle before an MA at the Royal College of Art. In 1990 he moved to Scotland to become Course Leader in Illustration at The Glasgow School of Art where his alumni have included Mark Hearld, Helen Stephens and Ross Collins. Mick gave up teaching in 1998 to concentrate on his own work as an established artist and illustrator.

After teaching design for a year at Cheltenham, Mann was appointed as Head of the Embroidery Department at the Glasgow School of Art in 1931. At the time of her appointment the once groundbreaking Embroidery Department had lost some of its energy after the First World War. The arrival of the energetic and dedicated Kathleen Mann at the age of 23 “Blew away the cobwebs” (Cordelia Oliver, The Herald, 1987) in the department which was still steeped in the arts and crafts heritage of Newbery and Macbeth.

Glasgow School of Art had always been an outward looking school interested in European movements, with the Mackintosh Building itself a monument to early Modernism. Once established in her office on the top floor, Mann set out to bring her department into the mainstream of Modernist design developments. Her emphasis on freedom and spontaneity in design are evident in the examples of her students’ work. She encouraged new techniques, in particular the use of machine embroidery, employing the free use of cut paper in the design process. A particularly fine example of her machine embroidery work is the Madonna and Child panel c1934-6 (Glasgow Museums). As always where innovative individuals challenge tradition there was some resistance, particularly to use of technology, which appeared to undermine arts and crafts tradition in embroidery.

Mann promoted large-scale work and often worked on panels as large as 6ft in height. Sadly none of these original works are known to exist at this time. The then Director of Glasgow School of Art W.O. Hutcheson, (1933-43) found her “an extremely interesting and capable person“ and the annual assessors’ reports congratulated the work of her department (1931/32, 19323/33, 1933/34). In a report on the Design School in 1933 Anning Bell notes, “Miss Mann is a great success. The students like her and she is keenly interested”. Mann encouraged in her students a spirit of exploration, which was consistent with the spirit of the times. Mann was Head of the Embroidery Department at Glasgow School of Art between 1931-35. Her achievements during her short tenure firmly established modern design and decorative art in the Glasgow School of Art as it was being developed across Europe.

In 1934 the Needlework Development Scheme in Scotland was initiated anonymously by J&P Coats thread manufacturers of Paisley. The scheme, a collaboration between the four Scottish colleges of art Gray’s of Aberdeen, Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art, the Glasgow School of Art and the thread manufacturers Coats. It was established with the stated aims of promoting and encouraging embroidery and embroidery design. Heads of Departments and teaching staff from the four colleges, including Kathleen Mann, were recruited to travel to Europe collecting and buying examples of contemporary and peasant embroidery. The collected embroidery works were intended to be used as teaching examples for distribution in schools and colleges throughout Scotland and beyond. An enthusiastic supporter of the scheme Kathleen Mann was an obvious choice as researcher and collector and travelled to France and to Italy in 1934 on this mission.

It was the same year that she married her colleague Hugh Adam Crawford A.R.S.A. Glasgow School of Art regulations of the time required that married women had to resign from post and it was with great regret that the school accepted her resignation. Mann had indicated a wish to continue in her post and it is likely that Director W.O. Hutcheson had hoped that this might be possible. However as no challenge was made to the rule by the Board of Governors the resignation was accepted in 1934.

Following her time at GSA Kathleen Mann dedicated her energy to her family and deferred to her husband’s career. She continued to write, to produce books and articles, about decorative art and embroidery, which contributed significantly to design education. Her last known embroidery commission was to design 3 new mitres for the Catholic Bishop of Glasgow in c1962 – none of which have survived.

Her books, such as Design from Peasant Art and China Decoration, show how use of folk art motifs and methods could liberate and take design forward. Mann believed that a synthesis of elements of peasant art combined with modernism was the way forward for a developing design aesthetic. A telling remark in one of her occasional articles for the Glasgow Herald in 1935 she noted “In Glasgow today colour is almost forgotten. Perhaps this is due to the fogs and dirt”.

The austerity of the war years was reflected in Mann’s contribution to the book New Life for Old Clothes, A & C Black 1943. Because of war economy restrictions on materials available to designers she compensated by decorating the plain china, making the utilitarian personal and adapting her design training to another use.

It is clear that Kathleen Mann was greatly influenced by her travel and collecting, she was one of the designers and educators for whom peasant art was one of the strands in the development of the contemporary modernist design. After her role at GSA Mann’s books and newspaper articles continued her contribution to developments in embroidery design.

Mann’s particular contribution to education in Glasgow School of Art was to re-invigorate the department to give impetus to the drive towards Modernism. She exhibited at an exhibition called 'From Four Decades' in June 1996 at East Kilbride Arts Centre along with Jim Barclay, Bill Bower, Joe Clark, Ralph Cowan and Eva Stimpson. Her last public appearance was when she opened the exhibition "A Century of Embroidery and Weaving at Glasgow School of Art". Kathleen Mann died on 11th January 2000.

Mary Malloy was a Silversmithing and Jewellery student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. She won the Johnson Matthey Silver Award in 1977.

Gilbert McCall Malcolm was born on 3rd March 1898 in either Kippen or Bridge of Allan in Stirlingshire, to Annie and John Malcolm. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1916 as an evening student of drawing and painting. He returned to study at the School from 1919 to 1920 as an evening student of design. Malcolm's registered addresses were Golfview Terrace, Cardonald and Paisley Road West. His occupation was as a clerk. In the 1901 census, Malcolm and his family are listed as living in Burton Joyce in Nottinghamshire. Malcolm enlisted to serve in the First World War in March 1917 and served as a gunner in the 174th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery. His regimental number was 145292 and he received the British War and Victory Medal. Malcolm was treated for gastritis and was demobilised from the army in November 1919.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Suraj Makwana studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and graduated with a diploma in Architecture in 2019. In 2019 he won the Chairman's Medal for Architecture.

Trevor Makinson was a painter and teacher, born in Southport, Lancashire. He attended Hereford School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. Went on to lecture at Glasgow's School of Art and the University. Professor Makinson, who was a member of the Glasgow Art Club, showed in mixed exhibitons at RA, RP, RSA, UA and elsewhere. He had strong connections with Hereford, being a member of the Farmer's Club there, showing with Herefordshire Arts and Crafts and Wye Valley Art Society and having a series of solo shows at Hereford Art Gallery from 1944; it also holds his work. There were other one-man shows in the provinces. Public galleries in Buxton, Glasgow, Newport, Salford and elsewhere hold examples. Lived in Glasgow.

James Steel Maitland was born in Strone, Argyllshire, on 27 August 1887, to Kate Coats Steel, an adopted sister of thread magnate, George H Coats, and James Maitland, a successful master grocer. Educated at Kilblain Academy and Glasgow High School, the young Maitland had hoped to become an artist but, due to his parents' disapproval, opted instead to pursue architecture as a profession. He was articled to William Leiper in 1903, and the following year enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art, studying part-time under Eugène Bourdon and Alexander McGibbon until 1907 while serving his articles. His apprenticeship ended in 1909, when he left to London to find work. While there he was advised to apply for a vacancy in Brown & Vallance of Montreal, Canada – he emigrated later that year. In 1913 he left to travel in France, and the following year married the embroiderer Ellison J F Young.

On the outbreak of the First World War, Maitland went to New York to train as a pilot before returning to Britain to join the British Royal Naval Air Service. Specialising in seaplanes and flying boats, he worked chiefly on reconnaissance and submarine patrol over the English Channel. By the time he was demobilised he had reached the rank of flight commander and was decorated with the Air Force cross.

In 1920, Maitland joined the office of Paisley architect Thomas Graham Abercrombie as principal assistant. He became a partner in 1923 and, after Abercrombie's death in 1926, continued as sole partner. Maitland was admitted LRIBA in 1931 and FRIBA in 1932. In the 1930s he became the burgh architect of Renfrew, a position he held until his retirement in 1963. He died on 27 February 1982 in the home he had designed for himself in Paisley. As well as architecture, he had a passion for painting, wood-carving, costume designing and theatre scene painting, and had been a president of the Paisley Burns, Rotary and Bohemian Clubs as well as a committed Paisley conservationist.

Further information about James Steel Maitland is available at the University of Leeds Special Collections (https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections) including a copy of drawings that he completed for a booklet called "The Education of a Quirk" and an in-depth interview where he talks about life during the First World War.

James S Maitland is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Jessie Mair was born on 7th October 1881. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student of drawing and painting. Mair's occupation was as a teacher. Her registered address was Crofthead Street, Uddingston.

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Allan Douglass Mainds was born in Helensburgh in 1881 to Catherine Thomson Gilfillan and William Reid Mainds, a landscape painter in oil.
After studying drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art (1896-1902), Allan won the Haldane Travelling Scholarship, enabling him to study in Holland and Brussels under Jean Delville, before proceeding to Paris, Rome and Venice. His subsequent style was said to be strongly influenced by French artists, stemming from his time in that country.
From 1909 until 1931 he was a member of staff at the School, instructing in ornament, life drawing and painting, and from 1910 to 1918, lecturing in history of costume and armour.
During the First World War Mainds served with the Royal Field Artillery in Flanders, where he was commissioned to the rank of captain. There his work included sketching landscapes for the gunners and, late in the war, acting as an instructor in a convalescent hospital. His 1916 field sketchbook includes carefully observed figures and desolate landscapes. The black and white detail of the trench systems are in stark contrast to several drawings and paintings of Rouen, which were worked on during periods of ‘R&R’ away from the front.

He was married, in uniform, in 1916 to Mary Hogg, who had been a full time student at the School of Art winning several prizes for embroidery and silversmithing. In 1929 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and in 1931 he became Professor of Fine Art and Director of the King Edward VII School of Art, Kings College, University of Durham.

He died at home in July 1945, after the end of the war in Europe but before peace in the Far East. His son, a Captain in the Parachute Regiment, and his son in law, a Flight-Lieutenant in the RAF who was a Lancaster pilot, both survived the war and attended his funeral. Allan D Mainds appears on Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour. If you have any more information, please get in touch.

Rona Main studied Textiles at GSA from 1975 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show. She was awarded the Incorporation of Cordiners and Incorporation of Skinners and Glovers Prize for Leatherwork, and a maintenance scholarship for a further four terms at Glasgow, in session 1978-79.

As at July 2017, she is an artist in Glasgow.

Sources: GSA Annual Report 1978-79 GOV/1/10; LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com

Franz Maggs is a Glasgow based fashion designer and artist (currently working from his home studio) creating a mix of bespoke garments for clients and fashion-based art installations.

His interest in fashion began at a young age, when he sketched his first design at 12 years old: a complete look consisting of a pink cropped top with matching hot pants worn by a model balanced on top of contrasting blue platform boots that were easily three feet high. Fortunately, through hard work and perseverance his style is arguably improved today, though his passion for fashion design, history, and theory, as well its versatility as a medium for society, culture, politics and stories, remains to this day.

Franz often describes his style as “morbid glamour” as he enjoys mixing dark twisted elements from novels, films, folklore and art and combining them with the glamorous exaggerated silhouettes from the past. He has a fondness for traditional and couture sewing techniques and is always researching and developing in order to enhance his work.

Franz studied Art and Design and Dumfries and Galloway college before he moved to Glasgow to study fashion design at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA Honours in 2017. That same year he worked in the costume departments of two films, “Outlaw king” a major production for Netflix in which he made costumes for the principle cast, and “Bunny” a short independent film in which he assisted the sourcing and selecting of costumes.

In 2018 he returned to The Glasgow school of art to study his masters in fashion design. And in 2019 after completing one of his most ambitious project to date in which he translated the dark sexualised world of J G Ballard’s novels into a dramatic fashion collection, he received his MDes Fashion with distinction.

It is his ambition to one day open a fashion studio in Glasgow where he can design and create bespoke garments, costumes and limited ready to wear collections, as well as experiment on his own work, and collaborate with other artists and designers.

Franz is greatly passionate about his work, and would describe it as an obsession, He will often spend hours perfecting the placement of a single seam, and will always aim for the garments he produces to be of high quality and longevity. His goal is to produce unique items of clothing that can be passed down through families and worn again and again, in contrast to what he sees as the fast fashion of today, where garments are discarded after only a short period of time.
To him, quality of manufacture can be just as important as quality of design, and with this in mind, he strives to produce truly original, captivating pieces that will stand the test of time.

Maeve studied for her Master of Architecture at Glasgow Scohool of Art and joined orms Architectural Parctice in London in 2015, qualifying in 2017. Prior to joining orms, she gained work experience in Northern Ireland, working on a range of projects including rural housing developments and commercial schemes before travelling to Vancouver, Canada.

Jessie S MacRobert studied at The Glasgow School of art in session 1917-18. The register does not state whether she attended afternoon or night classes but does say she 'attended a few lessons' in design. Her teacher was Miss Macluth. She resided in the West End of Glasgow, on Hamilton Park Terrace.

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Henrietta James Macreadie was born in 1891. She studied at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1914-1918. She attended day classes in drawing and painting, and later studied life drawing. She resided in the Ibrox area of Glasgow.

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George Gould MacQuarrie was born in 1887. He studied at The Glasgow School of Art in session 1914-15 then returned from 1918 – 1920. As he was not present during 1915-1918 session it is assumed he was part of the war effort. He attended evening classes in drawing and painting then went on to study life drawing. During this time He resided in the Partick area of the city. His occupation is listed as electrician.

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Sandra MacPherson studied at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1970s.