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Allan James Lawrie was born on 10th September 1887 in Lanarkshire, the middle of three sons of Julie Pricilla (nee Edwards), daughter of a farmer from the south of England and Frank, a successful commercial agent. The family lived at Hillside House, a large house in Bothwell. Between 1905 and 1910, Lawrie studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art . Before 1909, he worked as an architectural draughtsman with Henry Edward Clifford and after 1909, with the architectural practice Clifford and Lunan. During WW1, Lawrie served as Captain with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 6th Battalion (Terratorials). He was most likely transferred to the 23rd Brigade 8th Division in March 1915 which took part in significant offensives on the Western Front including the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle of Aubers in the spring of 1915. Lawrie died on 16th May 1915 and is buried at Rue du Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais. Allan J. Lawrie is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Lilian (Lin) Lawrence (nee Muir) graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a Diploma in Drawing and Painting in 1947. She was the daughter of Mr Malcom Muir, a teacher in the Mathematics Department of the High School of Glasgow from 1922-40, who later became Headmaster of Dinard Street.

Her interest lay with fashion design and make up supervision. She became a fashion artist in the early days of television and worked for ATV in London and then for Granada television in Manchester in the 1960s and was involved with some of the earliest Coronation Street productions. She was also involved with make up and the production of Orpheus in the underworld at the Sadler Wells theatre in London around 1960 and subsequently other classical plays.

Christopher Lawrence was born in 1936 and is Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He is based in Essex. He decided that he wanted to become a silversmith at the age of 13 after paying a visit to a silver factory as a boy scout. His father built him a workshop at the bottom of the family garden for him to learn his skills in and he then went on to attend the Central School of Arts in London. He was apprenticed to C J Vander as a tray maker and flat hammer man at the age of 15. At the age of 21, Lawrence worked at R E Stone alongside a number of reputed craftsmen. He stayed there for two years and learned how to hand raise with a hammer. He then spent a decade working as Gerald Benney’s workshop manager before setting up his own workshop in the late 1960s. Lawrence is a member of the institute of Professional Goldsmiths and is an expert at hand-raising.

Designer silversmith Rebecca Lawley studied silversmithing at Sheffield Hallam University graduating with a BA (hons) in 3D Metalwork and Jewellery in 1996. Based in the North West, she regularly exhibits her work at national venues including Goldsmiths’ Fair, the Festival of Silver and the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. Rebecca cites her design influences as mid twentieth century design, especially Lucienne Day, and Scandinavian design.

An aprentice lithographic engraver, Law attended the GSA from 1890 to 1892. His address given as 244 Buchanan Street during his first year of study, then 123 Albert Street. In 1891, he won a Haldane bursary of fifteen shillings and sixpence.

Frances Law studied at GSA and graduated in 1980. She modelled in the 1978 fashion show.

She had been a practising artist since graduation and exhibits across the world. She has also taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Perth College Department of Contemporary Arts Practice.

Source: Frances Law website http://www.franceslaw.co.uk/cv.php

Andrew Law attended the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1889–1896 and then spent a year in Paris at the Academie Delacluse. He was appointed a member of the drawing and painting department at the GSA in 1910 and remained on the teaching staff until his retirement in 1938.

Frederick Craik Stewart was born in Gourock, Renfrewshire on 16th November 1894, one of four sons of Mary Craik Stewart (nee Stormouth) and George Andrew Stewart, a metal storeman. The 1901 and 1911 censuses show the family lived in Govanhill, Glasgow. Stewart attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1915 as a day student of drawing and painting and received the Highland Society bursary of £10. The School's records show that he lived in Langside, Glasgow during this time. Stewart served in the First World War, as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery from May 1917. Stewart is commemorated on the School's First World War Roll of Honour and according to this, Stewart served as Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. His older brother, Kenneth, also served in the war, in the 3/7th battalion, Scottish Rifles. After the war, Stewart became a teacher of drawing and married Janette Grace Daly, also a teacher of drawing, in Govanhill in 1924. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan, between 1923 and 1931 Stewart exhibited his work at The Royal Scottish Academy and The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He lived in Edinburgh after 1926. He wrote a book called Lino Cutting for Schools in 1934 as F Craik Stewart. Stewart died in 1935 and his wife died in 1979, aged 82.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, The Gazette: http://www.thegazette.co.uk, Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk, "Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture" by Peter J M McEwan.

John Lavery was an Irish Painter best known for his portraits and wartime depictions. He was a student at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1870s and was a friend of GSA Director Fra Newbery.

Born Shrewsbury. Portrait painter; occasional landscapes and figurative studies. Studied Glasgow School of Art 1933-36 and Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 1938-1940, winning a Carnegie Travelling scholarship 1939. Taught drawings at Glasgow School of Art 1946-72. Almost all his Royal Scottish Academy exhibits were portraits including 'Sir Daniel Stevenson, Principal of Glasgow University', 1943 and 'James Cowie RSA', 1947; also exhibition at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (44 times). Represented in Scottish National Portrait Gallery ('James Cowie RSA').

Larsen graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a BA Hons in Fine Art in 2013. She is currently working as an artist between the UK and Norway. her practice consists of experimenting with drawing processes, focussing on the effects of different graphite pencil tones on paper.

Alex Langlands was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Born in Staines, Middlesex, she studied at Brighton Art School before attending the GSA from 1907 to 1910, where she took life classes with Maurice Greiffenhagen and Paul Artot.

Known for her etchings and aquatints, she also produced sculpture. She exhibited at the RSA, RGIFA, the Paris Salon and the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. She worked as a book illustrator for many years and moved to Victoria, Canada, in 1940.

She died in Santa Barbara, California.

Peter Lang was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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DCH Lang was a student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s.

Built houses for the people of Lanarkshire. Directors were R.D. Stewart (Chairman), S.R. Cooper (F.C.A), W. Fleming, and J. McW. Norman. Sidney Wesley Birnage was a consultant architect for the company. Had a factory located in Mossend, Lanarkshire where they produced their 'Bellstone' Block in the post-war period that included 3, 4, and 5 apartment double cottages. Boasted about reducing unemployment throughout Scotland. Provided optional colours and textures of their homes. Aimed to reduce maintenance costs for their buyers.

John Charles Lamont was born in Chryston, Lanarkshire on the 2nd of September 1894. He was the only child of Annabella Henry Lamont (nee Turnbull) and John Lamont, a doctor. A full time student of Drawing and Painting at The Glasgow School of Art between 1912 and 1914, he studied under Newberry and obtained a travelling scholarship though never went travelling due to being called up to war service as Acting Corporal with the Royal Tank Corps. Although earning a British War Medal and Victory Medal, he also received a serious injury that caused him to suffer ill health for the rest of his live, hindering his artistic practice and restricting the amount of work he could produce.

In spite of this, he moved to Kirkcudbright in the 1920s following the death of his father and a short period of employment in Ireland. There he joined a thriving artists' colony where he was reunited with fellow Glasgow School of Art classmate James Cowie (not included on the Roll of Honour as he declared himself a conscientious objector, refusing military service but accepting call-up to Non-Combatant corps) and befriended Robert Sivell (war-time engineer, fitting out trawlers and drifters for mine sweeping and similar operations), becoming affiliated with Archibald McGalshan, another well-known Glasgow School of Art graduate who had previously shared a studio with Sivell in Glasgow.

Lamont married the daughter of a Kirkcudbright cabinet maker and shipbuilder, Elspeth Sayers, whose sister Isobel became the wife of Robert Sivell. Lamont and Sivell were very close (Lamont even built himself and his new wife a house 'Millfield, The Stell' near to Sivell's home 'The Hollow') and a portrait by Sivell, Lamont by Lamplight, can still be seen on display in Gracefield Arts Centre as part of the Dumfries and Galloway collection. Lamont's paintings, typically landscapes and figures, were popular and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts prior to his death in 1948. His death certificate is signed by his brother in law, Robert Sivell.

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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, Tales of the Kirkcudbright Artists by Haig Gordon.

Robert Strachan Lamb was born in Beith, Ayr, on the 7th of September 1892, one of seven children of Margaret Lamb (née Love) and Alexander Lamb, a cabinetmaker. Lamb attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1922 to 1923 as a part time student of architecture. During the First World War, Lamb served as a Captain in The Royal Scots Fusiliers, though on the GSA Roll of Honour, he is only recorded as a 2nd Lieutenant. Lamb worked as a grocer's assistant. In 1920, he married Helena Grainger in Glasgow, a widow previously married to Joseph Clark Gibson, who had died serving in the war. They had two children. Lamb died in Glasgow in 1950, aged 58. Lamb is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Studied at the GSA from 1922 to 1925. Throughout her time in Glasgow, her registered address was her family home, Bryanston, in Dunblane.

Enrolled on the 'Black and White' course, she was taught by Dorothy Carleton Smyth amongst others. The course included classes in book illustration, lithography, wood engraving, press work in line and wash, fashion plate and other subjects. She later shared a studio in Dunblane with her sister Helen, a fellow artist, calligrapher and GSA alumna.

Born in Prestwick, Lamb studied at Glasgow Art School from 1907/08 to 1914/15, studying Drawing and Painting then Design, and taught Art at St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm, from 1918-1949. A ‘Glasgow Girl’ artist, calligrapher and teacher, she was part of the Scottish embroidery revival.

The Church of Scotland acquired the rights, in 1927, to print copies of her cradle roll, which was used into the 1970s. Lamb was commissioned to produce the Church of Scotland’s Loyal Addresses to King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, all of which are conserved in Windsor Castle.

She died in Dunblane, her family home, where she and her sister, Mildred, had a studio. There is an octagonal room on the ground floor of Dunblane Cathedral named after her in recognition of her outstanding artistic contribution to the cathedral.

Elspeth Lamb studied at Glasgow School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico USA, her main specialism being printmaking. She is an elected RSA Academician, and an elected member of the Society of Scottish Artists and Royal Glasgow Institute, and has taught several workshops in lithography at the Joan Miro Foundation in Mallorca, Spain. For 21 years she taught at the Edinburgh College of Art, latterly as Head of the Department of Printmaking and she has been visiting lecturer at many colleges in the UK including the Glasgow School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College Dundee and Middlesex University. She chose to give up all academic teaching commitments in 1999 to pursue her artistic career.

Robert Laird was born on 16 July 1900, in Glasgow, the youngest of five children of Elizabeth Laird (nee McGowan) and David Miller Laird, a master upholsterer. Robert Laird studied at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1917 to 1918 session, taking evening classes in drawing and painting, whilst training to be a cabinet maker. The following year, his name is listed on The Glasgow School of Art registers, but it notes he is serving with the army and therefore did not attend. During the First World War, Laird served briefly with the RAF, enlisting on 5 July 1918. He served at RAF airfields Manston and Joyce Green in Kent before being demobilised at Georgetown in Renfrewshire in March 1919. He returned to his work as a cabinet maker and took further classes in drawing and painting in the 1919/20 session. From 1922 to 1923 he studied furniture design. Robert Laird 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: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The National Archives: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk; Find My Past: http://www.findmypast.co.uk; The First World War Airfield at Farningham: http://www.felhs.org.uk .

William Cochrane Laine was born in Maryhill, Glasgow on the 15th March 1897 to Annie Keil Laing (née Tullis) and Robert Laing, a master jeweller. He attended evening classes in design at The Glasgow School of Art while working as an apprentice jeweller. On the outbreak of World War One he enlisted with the Army Service Corps. He died in St Andrews in 1945, leaving behind his wife, Jessie Thomson. His occupation is noted as silversmith and jeweller. William C Laing is listed on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Established by James Laing in Glasgow in 1840, the family jewellery business is now run by the sixth generation. Head quartered in Glasgow, the flagship store is in the historic Argyll Arcade, with branches throughout the UK.

Ebby Lai graduated with an MDes Design Innovation & Service Design from The Glasgow School of Art in 2023. They were awarded the Postgraduate Chair Medal for the Innovation School.

Artist's statement: I am a service designer and strategist passionate about systems thinking and transformation, as well as the symbiotic relationship between humans and technology in the modern world. I strive to be curious and provocative to uncover true and meaningful insights in my work, while also being thoughtful and considering real-world challenges to make my projects and interventions actionable and applicable. My passion for speculative design, systems thinking, and leveraging technology for good is demonstrated through a successful track record of service design projects focused on enhancing inclusivity, accessibility, sustainability, and scalability. I am dedicated to shaping the future of service experiences through innovative design and systemic change, bringing a unique blend of creativity and practicality to my work.

Bruce Lacey, born in 1927, is a British artist, performer and eccentric. He completed national service in the Navy and then became established on the avant-garde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. From 1948, he studied at Hornsey College of Art, followed by attendance at the Royal College of Art in the early 1950s. He formed a close association with The Alberts performance group and The Goon Show during this decade, helping pioneer a surrealist British sense of humour. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Fairport Convention, and his most famous appearance in front of the camera was as a flute-playing gardener in 'Help!', the Beatles' feature film. As well as being equally comfortable working behind the camera, Lacey worked on experimental theatre performances and created mechanical devices. He was a visiting professor at several Art Colleges in the 1960s and 70s. Later, he moved to Norfolk with his wife and became part of a fair making network, Albion Fairs. Specifically he was responsible for running the "Faerie Fair" at Lyng, Norfolk in 1981-82. In 1996 there was a major retrospective of his life and art at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. A major survey of his work ran at the Camden Arts Centre, from 7 July to 16 September 2012. As of 2014, he still works and performs, often at the Norwich Arts Centre.

Sources: [http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/bruce_lacey.shtml, accessed 6 Aug 2015] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lacey, accessed 6 Aug 2015]

Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2009, with a BA in Visual Communication. In 2014, she graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London.

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and art fairs internationally and has undertaken residencies in South Korea, Scuola di Grafica di Venezia Italy and at UK organisations including Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Firstsite Colchester and New North Press/Standpoint London. Commissions include The National Trust, Norwich Cathedral and University of East Anglia/OUTPOST Gallery. Examples of her work are held in The Anthony Shaw Collection at York Art Gallery and Letterform Archive San Francisco. In 2022 she received a DYCP award from Arts Council England and in 2023 her solo exhibition Word Parts at Standpoint Gallery, London, was supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.

Alexander Kuusik graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2014. He was the recipient of the Newbery Medal.

Kunimaro was a student of Kuniyoshi Utagawa. He was also a poet, author and illustrator of books.

Kukainis was born and grew up in Riga, Latvia graduating from Riga Stage Gymnasium No.1. Graduated from Glasgow School of Art with Bachelor with Honours in Architecture in 2021, and Diploma in Architecture in 2022 receiving Chairman's Medal, Glasgow Institute of Architects Commendation, Glasgow Council Charlie Cochrane Medal and shortlisted for Architect's Journal Student Sustainability Prize for the Final Thesis Project: The “Post-Landfill”: Finding sustainability in problematic mid-20th century heritage. Nominated for Newberry Medal, 3D Reid Student Prize, Architect's Journal Student Award and RIBA Silver Medal. Has practised as Part 1 and Part 2 Architectural Assistant at award-winning architecture practices: Glasgow-based Anderson, Bell + Christie, and Riga-based Sudraba Arhitektūra, working from small and highly-individual private projects to large-scale public cultural buildings and wide residential developments.

Henning Koppel was a Danish artist and designer. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts's School of Sculpture in 1936–37 and at Académie Ranson in Paris in 1938. He is most known for his work for Georg Jensen in the years after World War II. He also designed porcelain, glass and lamps.
Unlike other European companies, which preferred anonymity, Scandinavian firms such as Georg Jensen promoted their designers and encouraged them to make a name of their own.

John Knox was born in Scotland sometime after 1910 and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he received a maintenance Scholarship in 1928. Knox was a member of the Glasgow School of Art club during his studies and exhibited sculptures with the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1930 and 1932. Knox relocated to Belfast in 1939 where he succeeded George MacCann as head of sculpture at the Belfast School of Art.

Born in Kirkintilloch, Jack (John) Knox (born 1936) studied at The Glasgow School of Art and afterwards in Paris. In 1965 he joined the staff of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and in 1981 became Head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art. After retirement he devoted himself to painting. Jack Knox died in 2015.

Following a BA in Three Dimensional Design at the University of Wolverhampton, Bryony completed a Masters in Silversmithing at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1999.
Based in Edinburgh, Bryony's work is fashioned and embellished using the techniques of repousse and chasing, often with enamel or gilded details. For the past twenty years she has been selling and exhibiting in galleries throughout the UK and abroad, whilst also undertaking larger and more intricate private and public commissions, including objects for J K Rowling, Winchester Cathedral, the Museum of Edinburgh & HRH Princess Anne.

William Knight II & Samuel Knight entered a mark together on 24th January 1810 as small-workers. It is believed that they may have been brothers.
No record of apprenticeship or freedom.

Born in 1964, Knight studied at Harlow Technical College before completing a BA in Three Dimensional Design: Silversmithing and Jewellery at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1987. He went on to study at the RCA, graduating with an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery in 1992. From 2003 he was a part-time Lecturer in Post Graduate Design, Jewellery and Metalwork at Sheffield Hallam University, combining this with his own work as Chris Knight Metalwork.
His practice includes sculpture and public art; he has collaborated with product, interior and landscape designers, architects, artists, engineering companies, developers, town planners and city councils. Knight was shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Applied Arts Prize (2005), won the Museum Sheffield National Metalwork award for his silver and stainless steel chalice titled Lest We Forget in 2010, and was lead designer of the St Leger Stakes permanent trophy. A Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, he has pieces in the Goldsmiths Collection, the V&A, Birmingham Museums and many other major public collections.

Adriane Klapwijk studied Embroidery and Weaving at GSA from 1977 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show. She won the Scottish Education Department Travelling Scholarship in session 1981-82.

Source: GSA Annual Report 1981-82 GOV/1/11

Graduated from GSA in 2006 BA(Hons) Design: Silversmithing and Jewellery, then went on to complete a PGCE Secondary; Design Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (2008-2009). In 2010 Laura joined the Goldsmiths Getting Started Program and was one of twelve of the graduates to be invited to participate in Cox & Power's Getting Started exhibition the following May.

Jonathan Kirkwood graduated in Fine art Photography from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018. In 2018 he was awarded the W.O. Hutchison Prize.

Ruth Kirkby is a letterpress printer living and working in Glasgow using traditional methods of printing with metal and wood type but also experimenting with new techniques within the process. She is particularly interested in analysing the way we experience letterforms and society’s relationship to the written word throughout the history of typography. She studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 2012-2015.

Alongside her own research-led practice, Kirkby works in collaboration with artists and designers using letterpress technology. She also works as a Technician at the Glasgow School of Art in the school’s letterpress printing workshop and helps run the Caseroom SWG3, organising workshops, events and providing technical printing support.

Bill Kirk trained in the workshop of Charles & Norah Creswick in Edinburgh before establishing his own studio in 1961. As a tutor of silversmithing, engraving and enamellings firstly at Glasgow School of Art (1961-1978) and then at Edinburgh College of Art (1980-1999), Kirk was a significant influence on the nurturing and development of fine silversmithing skills in Scotland. He was commissioned by HM Queen Elizabeth to make the communion cup for Dr Selby Wright for Canongate Church and there were many other commissions for his fine silverware both in the UK and abroad for ecclesiastical and domestic uses.

Amanda Kirk studied Embroidery and Weaving from 1976 at GSA, and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show. She was awarded a maintenance scholarship for a further four terms at Glasgow in session 1979-80.

Source: GSA Annual Report 1979-80 GOV/1/10