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Textile design

Abstract textile design. Reverse depicts design for exhibition layout of "Fashion jewellery from card".

Cosgrove, James

Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks from James Cosgrove's time as a student at the Glasgow School of Art, as a member of staff of the Glasgow School of Art, and as a Director of the House for an Art Lover. Also includes travel journals and sketchbooks documenting trips to Mexico, the United States of America, the Highlands of Scotland, London, Paris and Amsterdam.

Cosgrove, James

Sketchbook 1976-1978

Sketchbook including abstract designs, paintings and drawings, including some landscapes and portraits, designs for Christmas card. Loose inserts including life drawings.

Cosgrove, James

Royal College of Art Sketchbook

Includes drawings and landscape paintings and sketches, notes and designs of the playground, Grounds for Play, and the Art Park centre for Art and Heritage at House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Also includes a series of 14 photographic reproductions of acrylic paintings of landscapes.

Cosgrove, James

Publications

Five magazines produced by the students and staff of the Department of Printed Textiles containing illustrations and photographs of the students' work.

The Glasgow School of Art

Postgraduate Year Sketchbook

Sketchbook labelled 'James Cosgrove' on inside of front cover. Variety of coloured and monochrome designs and illustrations. Several loose works including one Christmas card design.

Cosgrove, James

Posters

Posters from exhibitions of work of James Cosgrove, and his students. Also posters advertising bands and lectures.

Cosgrove, James

Papers of James Cosgrove

  • DC 111
  • Collection
  • 1968-2020

Collection includes artworks and sketchbooks made by Jimmy Cosgrove as a student at the Glasgow School of Art; while working as a Tutor and the Director of the Glasgow School of Art; and afterwards, including work relating to the House for an Art Lover, and documenting travels across Europe, North America, and Mexico.

Cosgrove, James

Mural designs

Hand drawn and painted mural designs for projects such as Leeds Permanent Building Society and British Rail.

Cosgrove, James

Mural design

Design of yellow, red, and black and white circles and squares. Reverse has some simple illustrations.

Cosgrove, James

Morvich 1976

Sketchbook including illustrations of landscapes and abstract landscapes, mostly from Morvich and Rothesay. Including printouts from jimmycosgrove.files.wordpress.com from 2016.

Cosgrove, James

Film accompanying the exhibition by Jimmy Cosgrove ‘Looking for Signs: Ideas and Imagined Circumstances', Studio Pavilion (House for an Art Lover), 28 Jul 2018-16 Sep 2018

Film by Callum and Fraser Rice which accompanies the exhibition by Jimmy Cosgrove ‘Looking for Signs: Ideas and Imagined Circumstances', Studio Pavilion (House for an Art Lover) 28 July - 16 September 2018, co-curated by Alison Harley, Fraser Taylor and Louise Briggs.

The exhibition explored the studio collection of Jimmy Cosgrove, and presented work spanning the early 1970s to new work created for the Studio Pavilion in 2018. Sketchbooks, travelogues, working ideas were included to show the span of work across design and the visual arts, pursued by Jimmy Cosgrove throughout his career at GSA.

Filmed in the context of the exhibition Cosgrove expands upon his ideas, working processes and contribution to design education at GSA, alongside his artistic contribution to the Scottish and Glasgow art scene of the early 1970s and into the mid 1990s, when he retired from GSA to continue working as an exhibiting artist.

A publication with invited contributions by practitioners and academics, accompanied the exhibition.

Rice, Callum

Fifteen Degrees Plus

Fifteen Degrees Plus

Magazine produced by the students of the Department of Printed Textiles, June 1979.

Cover design by Colin Renfrew.

The Glasgow School of Art

Dissertation project

James Cosgrove's Glasgow School of Art DA dissertation.

Square white/grey hardcover book with hand-printed silk-screens on paper and acetate. Images and poetry inside. Entitled 'Relationships. Thoughts and Things.'

Cosgrove, James

Cosgrove 3rd Textiles

Glasgow School of art Third Year Printed Textiles sketchbook labelled 'Botanic Gardens 1969'. Abstract designs.

Cosgrove, James

Compass 1988 Drawings for Tiles

Inscribed 'Dave Cohen - Lys Hansen/ Pete Bevan/JC'. Sketches, mostly portraits, and notes regarding exhibition. Also a design for fish plates, and biblical references.

Cosgrove, James

Class of 82

Magazine produced by the Department of Printed Textiles, 1982.

Cover illustration by Susan Ellis. Collage by Norma Kennedy.
Introduction by Jimmy Cosgrove.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2014

Design 2. Christmas Card. 'First Snow - Last Sailing'. Also includes a mock up of the card with a different painting on reverse.

Cosgrove, James

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