Morning pals!
This week Pie asked us to visit Glasgow School of Art with her.
To give you some context, GSA is where I studied and met Mr H, Gerry Turley. Pie is thinking of applying, maybe this year, maybe next. Or maybe not. She’s going to visit lots of art schools before she makes a decision.
Anyway, since we studied there, back in the mumble, mumble (early nineties) the old Reid building has been knocked down and replaced, and the beautiful old Rennie Mackintosh building, that we took for granted back then, has burnt down. Twice!
So we wondered if it would feel the same. Would it feel Strange, would it have lost its essential Glasgow School of Artiness?
I can now report back: it feels right AND smells right. These are the two most important things to consider when choosing an art school.
But weirdly, everyone is a child now! I was 100% a grown up when I was 18! Ha!
Where did you study? Have you ever revisited? What was that like? I once opened a new library at my old primary school and was ALLOWED IN THE STAFF ROOM! Well, that’s not right is it? And they now have fire exits, I don’t think they had those in my day.
The Children’s Book Show Art Auction has started! Support their amazing work by bidding on this piece by moi, or a piece by Axel Scheffler, Yasmeen Ismail, Christian Robinson, Martha Altes, or one of the other brilliant picture book makers.
That’s all for today, because I am on a train to London to see the Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum. And maybe some
I will report back on that next week. Have a lovely Sunday.
Helenx
I studied in Edinburgh! I was an exchange student there in the (mumble, mumble) - and got to stay in the student housing at Milne's Court, next to the castle! I've revisited many times since, and it still makes me happy.
Oh wow Glasgow School of Art has an almost mythical status in my mind - how lucky you were to study there!
I studied at the rather prosaically named Tasmanian State Institute of Technology aka TSIT in the (ahem) 80s! I can honestly say they were the best years of my life. We partied hard and we had 24 hour access to the studios so we could pull all-nighters if we needed to, which was more than occasionally. And sometimes just for fun. I had a friend who more or less lived in the drawing room - there was a handy mattress there that the life models used haha.