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Detail of Kirsty Walker's 2023 installation piece,

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Kirsty Walker: Haunting of a Lost Future

Reflecting on the exhibition, Unearthed, which emerged from a Negotiated Project with Sculpture and Environmental Art (SEA), Kirsty Walker explains how her research in GSA

31 March 2023

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Image Eye Candy

Hello blog readers! We know it’s been a while since our last blog, but we’re delighted to be back and getting into the second month

2 February 2022

Photograph of someone's feet, standing on a green circle which says "Please Keep a Safe Distance"

Creative Engagement

UMIS’s ‘Capturing Lives’ project: Using university collections to engage young people through lockdown

Many university museums (including ourselves) have been adapting our services since COVID-19 forced the country into lockdown in March. GSA Archives and Collections are

29 September 2020

Creative Engagement

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

We at the Archives and Collections have recently been reflecting on the fantastic creative work that our first year students produced as a result of

17 April 2020

Creative Engagement

Visualising the Archive: Our Material Gone Digital!

Happy new year! To kick off our 2020 blog posts, we thought we’d start by promoting a student project which shows off our collections in

7 January 2020

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Pre-Sessional English: The Exploration in/of the GSA Archives

It was a joy to see what the students from the first intake of this years Pre-Sessional English cohort made of GSA Archives! See their

18 July 2019

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Re-introducing “The Hatchery”

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that we have recently changed the “Case Studies” section of our Archives and Collections website to link

10 June 2019

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Pre-Sessional Positivity

Our recent group session with GSA’s Pre-Sessional English students proves that archives really do ignite creativity! The Pre-Sessional English course is a three-month discipline specialist

13 July 2018

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Artist Visit: Archivedwalks at Glasgow School of Art Archives

Recently we welcomed Artist and Archivist Peter Morphew to the GSA Archives and Collections to sketch some of the records! He wrote a fascinating blog-post

13 December 2017

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Trails and Tales: Artists in the Archives

Trails and Tales is an exciting 3 year project supported by the East Dumbartonshire Council, Creative Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, that looks to

3 July 2015

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Artists in the Archive

Recently archives have started to be used and researched by artists to create new pieces of work that take inspiration from the past. A recent

13 April 2015

Creative Engagement

The Strawberry Thief – A Sweet Treat

In 2013 the V&A employed Sophia George as Game Designer in residence – the first residency of its kind in the V&A – to come

27 March 2015

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The Blog

Kirsty Walker: Haunting of a Lost Future

Image Eye Candy

UMIS’s ‘Capturing Lives’ project: Using university collections to engage young people through lockdown

First Year Experience: Archive Anecdotes

Visualising the Archive: Our Material Gone Digital!

Pre-Sessional English: The Exploration in/of the GSA Archives

Re-introducing “The Hatchery”

Pre-Sessional Positivity

Artist Visit: Archivedwalks at Glasgow School of Art Archives

Trails and Tales: Artists in the Archives

Artists in the Archive

The Strawberry Thief – A Sweet Treat

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