Kemp, Marjorie B

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Kemp, Marjorie B

Born in Blairgowrie on 12 March 1886, Marjorie B(oyce?) Kemp attended the GSoA for seven years between 1905 and 1920. Registering for her first year, her Glasgow address was given as 1 Victoria Crescent in Dowanhill, but her home address as, The Manse, Blairgowrie. For five years, she enrolled as a day student, studying Drawing and Painting and Life Drawing, but during her last two years she only attended evening classes. During the 1918/19 session, an Edinburgh address, 15 Lonedale Terrace, was given as her home address and her occupation described as, "stained glass". The following year she was back in Glasgow lodging c/o Parkinson at 54 Kingarth Street in Crosshill, with no occupation listed. She was awarded her GSoA Diploma in 1913, qualified as an Art Teacher and was recorded teaching at Coatbridge H G School for the 1916-1917 school year. It was probably at evening classes at the School that she met Margaret Chilton, a stained glass artist who had moved to Glasgow from Bristol in 1918. In 1922 the two ladies set up a stained glass studio together in Edinburgh at 13a George Street and after a few years they moved to 12 Queen Street. This was still Marjorie's address in the Edinburgh phone book of 1952, but by 1968 she had moved to 15 Saxe Coburg Place, having retired from stained glass following Margaret Chilton's death in 1962. During her career, she exhibited works at both the RSA and RGIFA. Though many of her works were completed with Margaret Chilton, Marjorie Kemp also produced a number of Parish Church windows of her own design, including windows for Crieff and Alyth Churches, both in her home county of Perthshire. The window in Alyth depicts the Parable of the Sower and features the local raspberry crops. She died in Edinburgh on 20 April, 1975.

Sources: College Registers and Prospectuses; RGIFA 1861 1989, Billcliffe; Wikipedia.

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