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If you’d listened hard enough a couple of weeks ago on May 23 you’d have heard a collective gasp sweep across Great Britain as the news spread that a fire had taken hold of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building on Renfrew Street in Glasgow, a much-loved and iconic piece of Scottish architecture. A campaign has since been launched to restore the building to its former glory, but in the meantime, former alumni and students of the school have created the "Mac Photographic…

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Glasgow Girls, Glasgow School Of Art, Art School, Isle Of Arran, Glasgow Scotland, Scottish Artists, Popular Artists, Building Art, Dark Wood Frames

Avril Paton, who was born in Glasgow in 1941 during the wartime blitz is the daughter and grand-daughter of Hugh and Donald Paton who were both landscape painters on the Isle of Arran. Mardi Gillies, her mother, met and married Hugh when they were both attending Glasgow School of Art in the late thirties.

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Naomi Cameron
The Mackintosh Building at The GSA | Flickr Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mackintosh Architecture, Mackintosh Design, Interior Architecture Design, Art And Architecture, Interior And Exterior, Interior Design, Glasgow School Of Art, Art School

These selection of images show the interior and exterior of the Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art, our main building and at the heart of our campus. The Glasgow School of Art was originally founded in January 1845 as Glasgow's Government School of Design. Forty years later in 1885 Francis Newbery became headmaster and under his energetic direction the Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy (as it was then known) expanded so considerably that a new larger building was…

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Susanne Horncastle
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Just a few weeks ago I was watching a documentary about Charles Rennie Mackintosh with my parents, which had been made to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, and I covered my eyes at the images of the 2014 fire at Glasgow School of Art. A few days later my blog was mentioned as "further reading" about his Japanese symbolism for those attending a talk at a library in Kansas City, Missouri. Then, a week after that, I looked at Twitter first thing in the morning and wondered why…

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