List of Glasgow School of Art alumni
Following is a list of Glasgow School of Art alumni.
Academic
[edit]- Mary Maclean – photographer and Royal Academy lecturer
- Grace Wilson Melvin – artist and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts[1]
- Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts[2]
Architecture and design
[edit]- Ian Callum – automotive designer[3]
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh –designer and architect[3]
- Jeffrey Rowbotham – architect[4]
- Thomas S. Tait – architect[3][5]
Embroidery
[edit]- Anne Knox Arthur – embroiderer and 1939 Lauder Prize winner
- Helen Adelaide Lamb – embroiderer and painter
- Ann Macbeth – embroiderer and suffragist[3][6]
- Jessie Newbery – textile artist and embroiderer[3]
Fashion design
[edit]- Pam Hogg – fashion designer[3]
- Jonathan Saunders – fashion designer[7]
Film and television
[edit]- Peter Capaldi – actor, director, and 1995 Academy Awards winner for short film[3]
- Robbie Coltrane – actor[3]
- Muriel Gray – broadcaster, author, and journalist[3]
- Jimmie Macgregor – television broadcaster and folksinger[8]
- Alexander Mackendrick – film director[9]
- Gillies MacKinnon – film director[10]
- Iain McCaig – Hollywood storyboard artist, illustrator, and designer[11]
- Eddie McConnell – documentary filmmaker
- Norman McLaren – Academy Award-winning animator and filmmaker[3]
- May Miles Thomas – screenwriter and director[12]
- Ewan Morrison – novelist, screenwriter, director, and winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
- Donald Wilson – television writer and producer[13]
Illustration
[edit]- Christine Berrie – illustrator[14]
- Emilio Coia – caricaturist[3][15]
- Darren Cullen – cartoonist known for Join the Army[3]
- John Glashan – cartoonist and illustrator[16]
- Jessie Marion King – illustrator[3]
- Iain McCaig – illustrator, designer, and Hollywood storyboard artist[11]
- Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator[17]
- Stewart Orr – children's book illustrator and watercolour artist[18]
- Frank Quitely – comics artist[19]
- David Shrigley – artist and cartoonist[20]
- Dyke White – cartoonist[3]
Literature and journalism
[edit]- John Byrne – playwright and artist[3]
- Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984[21]
- Alasdair Gray – novelist, muralist, and author of Lanark: A Life in Four Books[3]
- Liz Lochhead – playwright and poet[3]
- Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator[17]
- Ewan Morrison – novelist, screenwriter, director, and winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
- Cordelia Oliver – journalist and art critic for The Guardian[22]
Metal working
[edit]- De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar – enamelist and metalworker
Music
[edit]- Fran Healy – musician in Glasgow-based band Travis[3]
- Dougie Payne – musician and member of the band Travis[3]
- Andy Dunlop – musician and member of the band Travis[3]
- Bob Hardy – musician and bassist in Franz Ferdinand[3]
- Scott Hutchison – musician and artist[3]
- Rory Macdonald – musician, songwriter, and founding member of Runrig[23]
- Jimmie Macgregor – folksinger and television broadcaster[8]
- Tommy Reilly – musician and songwriter
- Sharleen Spiteri – singer-songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Scottish pop-rock band Texas[24]
Performance art
[edit]Painting
[edit]- Janet Macdonald Aitken – painter[25]
- Ann Dunlop Alexander – painter[26]
- Lena Alexander – painter[27]
- Jessie Algie – botanical painter[25]
- Mary Parsons Reid Allan – painter[27]
- Edith Lovell Andrews – painter[27]
- Sophie Aston – painter[27]
- Lesley Banks – painter[27]
- Sam Black – artist[28]
- Robert Henderson Blyth – artist[29]
- Leonard Boden – portrait painter[30]
- Christine Borland – artist and 1997 Turner Prize Nominee[3]
- Martin Boyce – artist, 2011 Turner Prize winner[3]
- Roderick Buchanan – artist and 2000 Beck's Futures winner[3]
- Nancy Jane Burton – painter[27]
- Steven Campbell – artist[3]
- Evelyn Carslaw – landscape painter[27]
- Nathan Coley – artist and 2007 Turner Prize nominee[31]
- Stephen Conroy – painter[3]
- Gertrude Mary Coventry – portrait painter[25]
- James Cowie – painter[3][32]
- Hugh Adam Crawford – painter[25]
- Ken Currie – artist[33]
- Alexander Brownlie Docharty – artist[34]
- Jessie Alexandra Dick – painter and teacher[27]
- Joan Eardley – artist[3]
- Christian Jane Fergusson – artist[35]
- Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984[21]
- Amelia Beattie Forsyth – artist and Lauder Prize winner 1937
- Douglas Gordon – artist and 1996 Turner Prize winner[3]
- Alexander Goudie – artist[36]
- Norah Neilson Gray – artist[37]
- Sir James Gunn – landscape and portrait painter[38]
- Ilana Halperin – artist[39]
- Peter Howson – artist[3]
- Chantal Joffe – artist[40]
- Violet McNeish Kay – painter[27]
- Jessie Keppie – artist[27]
- Annabel Kidston – artist[27]
- Annie Rose Laing – painter[27]
- Elspeth Lamb – printmaker[27]
- Jim Lambie – artist and 2005 Turner Prize nominee[3]
- Andrew Law – portrait painter[41]
- Laura Loudon – painter and 1939 Lauder Prize winner[3]
- Tessa Lynch – artist[42]
- Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh – artist[3][43]
- Shona Macdonald – artist[44]
- Philip Raskin – artist[45]
- Elizabeth McDonald – portrait painter[46]
- Jessie M. McGeehan – artist known for painting and mosaic work[2]
- Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker[2]
- Sam McKinniss – contemporary figurative and abstract painter[47]
- Bessie MacNicol – painter[48]
- Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts[2]
- Thomas Corsan Morton – artist[49]
- Sheila Mullen – artist[50]
- Ciara Phillips – artist [51]
- Christopher Pratt –Canadian painter who designed the Newfoundland flag
- John Quinton Pringle – artist[41]
- Charlotte Prodger – artist and 2018 Turner Prize recipient
- Jenny Saville – artist[3]
- William Somerville Shanks – artist[52]
- Lucy Skaer – artist and 2009 Turner Prize nominee[53]
- Simon Starling – Turner Prize winning artist 2005[3]
- Alison Watt – artist[3]
- Cathy Wilkes – artist and 2008 Turner Prize nominee[54]
- Richard Wright – artist and 2009 Turner Prize winner[55]
- Kumi Yamashita – artist[56]
- Jane Younger – painter[2]
Photography
[edit]- Harry Benson – photographer[57]
- Mary Maclean – photographer and Royal Academy lecturer
- Oscar Marzaroli – photographer[3]
Politics and government
[edit]- David Donaldson – Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland[3]
- Cathy Jamieson – politician[3]
- Ann Macbeth –suffragist and embroiderer[3][6]
- Alexander Stoddart – Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland[3]
Printmaking
[edit]- Jean D. Burns – artist and printmaker
- Robert Colquhoun – painter and printmaker[3][58]
- Anna Findlay – artist and printmaker[27]
- Chica Macnab – painter, wood-engraver, and printmaker[2]
- Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker[2]
- Jacki Parry – printmaker and founding member of Glasgow Print Studio[2]
- Viola Paterson – wood engraver and woodcut artist[2]
- Margaret Bruce Wells – printmaker[2]
Sculptor
[edit]- Phyllis Archibald – sculptor[27]
- Douglas Robertson Bisset – sculptor[59]
- William Kellock Brown – sculptor[60]
- Michelle de Bruin – sculptor, stonecarver and lettercutter[3]
- Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor[61]
- Alex Frost – sculptor[62]
- Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist[25]
- Benno Schotz – sculptor[3]
- Andy Scott – sculptor[3]
- Marc Bijl – sculptor, painter, and installation artist[63][64]
Stained glass
[edit]- Alan Gourley – painter and stained glass artist[65]
- Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist[25]
- Alf Webster – stain glass artist[66]
Other
[edit]- Doris Grant – nutritionist[67]
- Toby Webster – art dealer[68]
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