Brand New!! The Mac Later The Burn - An Archive, An Appeal As Well As Justice Who!
- The Macintosh Appeal
- New Trustees are Peter Capaldi as well as Brad Pitt
- Graduation as well as Degree Show 2014
The Macintosh Appeal
Last calendar week The Glasgow School of Art formerly launched The Mackintosh Appeal. The aim is to heighten something similar £20m to allow the GSA to committee the function that needs to live on done next the burn inwards the Mackintosh Building. (Click the link if y'all would similar to back upwards the appeal via the Big Give)
New Trustees
I am seriously impressed past times who the GSA has got to live on Trustees of its Appeal!The GSA confirmed in conclusion calendar week that both Peter Capaldi (the novel Doctor Who) as well as Brad Pitt are to lend their back upwards to the Appeal past times becoming Trustees.
- Peter Capaldi was born inwards Glasgow as well as is an alumnus of GSA having studied graphic pattern there.
- "I promise nosotros tin come upwards together to aid heighten the funds to restore the Mackintosh Building it to its sometime grace.
It e'er seemed to me, when I studied there, both every bit a educatee as well as every bit a nestling inwards Sabbatum morning time fine art classes, an exotic set of the imagination…. all nooks as well as crannies, guarded past times stern ancient statues as well as amount of artistic possibilities. There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh Building. But to a greater extent than than that it is a symbol of where fine art belongs, ascension every bit it does out of the pump of a slap-up city. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mighty castle on a hill, it is a business office of me, as well as of all Glaswegians.” Peter Capaldi
- Brad Pitt is good known for having a major involvement inwards both architecture as well as article of furniture design - both aspects inwards which Macintosh himself excelled. He has real much admired Macintosh Building for unopen to time.
"I’ve been doodling ideas for buildings as well as article of furniture since the early on 1990s, when I commencement discovered [Charles Rennie] Mackintosh as well as Frank Lloyd Wright." Brad Pitt
A Message to The Glasgow School of Art from Peter Capaldi from The Glasgow School of Art on Vimeo.
Glasgow School of Art graphic pattern alumnus Peter Capaldi amongst a particular message to students as well as friends of the Mackintosh Building, next the burn merely earlier Degree Show 2014. It includes an immortal delineate of piece of job (and yes, he did tell 'Cher'!) ;)
Bryan Ferry was already a Trustee of the pre-fire Appeal to fund the renewal of the existing Macintosh Campus.
The Mackintosh Appeal volition live on run past times The Glasgow School of Art Development Trust. Current Trustees are:
- Colin Grassie (Chair)
- Peter Capaldi
- Kelly Cooper-Barr
- Dr Kenneth Chrystie
- Bob Downes
- Ken Ross OBE
- Bryan Ferry CBE
- Dr Muriel Gray
- Prof Tom Inns
- Douglas Kinnaird
- William Bradley “Brad” Pitt
The Mac Photographic Archive
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 website - The Mac Photographic Archive - has likewise been gear upwards past times Lizzie Malcolm, an alumnus of the GSA which enables people to post their photographs of the interior from when they knew or visited the building.
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| The Mac Photographic Archive Website |
- anybody - students, alumni, staff, as well as tourists - tin post
- it's a documentary tape of the interior of the edifice - as well as therefore solely post photos of the INTERIOR
- you tin set as well as tag photos to specific rooms on each of the floors
The unfortunate burn at Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014 destroyed much-loved parts of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh edifice on Renfrew Street. In an endeavor to document the edifice for posterity, this website allows anyone, students, alumni, staff, as well as tourists to upload their personal tape of the school.
...... it is the intention of this website to concentrate on gathering a comprehensive tape of the interior of the building, from the people who induce got used it since its completion inwards 1909. Users tin tag their photos amongst the flooring as well as room inwards which the photograph was taken, guess the engagement as well as annotate accordingly.
Graduation as well as Degree Shoow 2014
In the meantime, all those students who were affected past times the burn graduated in conclusion week. This Flickr site provides an insight into the function of this year's graduates
A gallery for each programme across our disciplines inwards fine art, pattern as well as architecture. Degree Show is the annual exhibition of function past times in conclusion yr undergraduate students as well as is opened upwards to Blue Planet from 14-21 June 2014.Previous posts:
- Major burn at Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art 24 May 2014
- Mackintosh Building Fire Fund 27 May 2014
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