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Applying to GSA from school or college
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A LT C I T Y G U I D E GSA LIVE MAP v O P E N DAYS
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Contents
ALT CITY GUIDE
TO GLASGOW
Welcome
page 2
GSA LIVE MAP
page 10
TRANSITIONS IN
TO ART SCHOOL
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GSA SINGAPORE
page 18
THE GSA HUB
page 20
vOPEN DAYS, ADVICE
+ INTRODUCTIONS
page 22
DEGREE SHOW
page 24
PROGRAMMES,
GSA Degree Show 2018 preview
HOW TO APPLY
AND MORE INFO
Live map: Tontine Building
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[ ] GSA Live map
The GSA Live Map is a Google Map-based guide to CONTENTS
GSA’s global creative networks, connections, locations • Creative Networks
and to the city at our heart, Glasgow. Throughout this • Alt City Guide to Glasgow
guide you will see yellow highlights over text. These • vOpen Day
highlights show that the place, business or person is
featured on the Live Map and shows a map reference.
Discover the GSA Live Map at: www.gsa.ac.uk/livemap
Following the fire in the Mackintosh Building in June
2018, some services and buildings may be subject to
Welcome
disruption. The School is working to minimise any
disruption for students and where necessary alternative
arrangements are being put in place that will be
reflected in the Live Map as and when they happen.
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A network of indie galleries,
clubs, restaurants and bars has
created a robust creative scene
in Scotland’s largest city, where
talent is allowed time to flourish.
The Alt City
Guide to
The Alt City Guide to Glasgow
Poetry Club, image courtesy SWG3
Photographer James Anderson
Glasgow
Live map: Poetry Club
by Tony Naylor
originally published in The Guardian
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Optimo 20
Live map: SWG3
Photographer Brian Sweeney
Lady Macbeth, part of Buzzcut
Photographer Silvia Ziranek.
Left: Black Sun Drum Korps
Live map: Glue Factory
Below: Buzzcut,
how many women – So Low’s Rebecca
Marshall, Fem Bitch Nation, Susannah
Stark, LAPS – are prominent on the local
experimental electronic music scene.
Glasgow is not without problems. As in
most cities, gentrification threatens its
creative communities. It is forcing up rents
and forcing artists out, hence the migration
of creatives to the Southside (south of the
river Clyde). Meanwhile, a 3am club curfew
means that hard-partying Glasgow has to
play cat-and-mouse with the fun police.
Such licensing restrictions have spawned a
sub-culture of ad hoc gigs in grey area spaces,
illegal after-hours events and raucous late-
night house parties. “Going back to people’s
houses and bonding over music is a big part
of Glasgow’s club culture and how electronic
music has developed here,” says Chater.
Yet, laments Keith McIvor – aka JD Twitch,
half of the city’s legendary Optimo DJ duo,
club and label – a lot of that “brilliant” talent
“Music, the visual arts goes unnoticed: “There is something in the
Glasgow mentality. People aren’t good at
and that DIY approach go promoting themselves, but it’d be nice if they
Richard McMaster, keyboard player everyone seems to be far more were a tiny bit more ambitious. There’s nothing
in the Glasgow band Golden Teacher, is trying concerned with creating sincere hand-in-hand in Glasgow wrong with doing something amazing that
to explain why the city’s underground work and having fun, than reaches a lot of people. It’s not selling out.”
tends to shun media attention. “Scenes get making money. “Music, the visual and you can trace He may have a point. But for the
hyped-up and go wrong but, because there’s arts and that DIY approach go time being, if you want to experience the best
no media here the way there is in London, hand-in-hand in Glasgow and that back to punk.” of Glasgow, you will have to visit it and explore.
The Alt City Guide to Glasgow
things happen slowly and organically. There’s you can trace that back to punk,”
a community in Glasgow doing things for the says artist Patrick Jameson, co-founder of Chater also works at the record shop and
right reasons: because they love music.” He the Queens Park Railway Club art space. vinyl distributor Rubadub, a vital resource for
is instinctively wary: “In many ways, even this All that creative activity teems around an the city’s labels. These kind of connections
discussion makes me feel uncomfortable.” infrastructure of studios, labels, gig promoters are key, says artist Claire Biddles: “The crux
Glasgow may produce a stream of credible and galleries (Green Door, Transmission, of Glasgow DIY is that everyone does
crossover stars (Franz Ferdinand, Chvrches Pipe Factory, Night School, Domestic everything. You’ll go to Mono for a fundraiser [ ]
or the DJ/producers Jackmaster, Rustie and Exile, GLARC, Roof Garden, All Caps, Outer for Open House and there’ll be bands on
Hudson Mohawke), but that seems to happen Zone), which, while often international in who are also artists, writers or bartenders Live map: Alt City Guide
more by accident than design. Invariably, scope, nurture Glasgow talent. “If you’ve in town. Everything feels joined up.” Find these and other music
such break-out stars will have already an idea, it’s easy to participate. There’s That underground prides itself on its venues, networks, a walking tour,
spent years toiling away in bands and club not much money in Glasgow but there is progressive politics, too. There is room for and more on the ‘Alt City Guide’
collectives, in a city where – due to the support,” says Richard Chater, co-founder improvement (the feminist music collective layer of our GSA Live map.
influence of The Glasgow School of Art – of the label and club collective, Numbers. OH-141 is pushing for that), but it is striking gsa.ac.uk/livemap
Music [ ]
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Show After party
Live map: Alt City Guide
Below: Degree
The Art School
Find these and other music
venues, networks, a walking tour,
Live map:
and more on the ‘Alt City Guide’
layer of our GSA Live map.
gsa.ac.uk/livemap
Subclub The Art School
Like Frankfurt’s Robert Johnson (GSA’s Students’ Association)
Photographer Kirsty Anderson/Herald & Times
or Hamburg’s Golden Pudel, The Art School is a student and artist-led
the Sub Club (capacity 410) is venue that advocates for GSA students
one of those smaller distinctive and the local creative community alike.
European clubs that are sites of It provides space and support for a wide range
Far left: Optimo DJs Twitch & Wilkes
Left & below: Image courtesy SWG3
pilgrimage for electronic music of artistic and musical practices, including
lovers. Partly, that is due to the gigs, clubs, films and educational events. As
Photographer James Anderson
high quality of its residents a non-profit charity, all proceeds go towards
Live map: The Poetry Club
and established nights (Harri & funding student exhibitions, projects, and
Domenic’s veteran Subculture, societies, as well as a programming fund for
Sensu, Numbers, Optimo), partly innovative and emerging artists and events.
it is down to the clarity of its Live map: The Art School
renowned soundsystem. theartschool.co.uk
Live map: Subclub
subclub.co.uk
La Cheetah
This 200-capacity basement below Max’s
Bar reminds Chater of London’s fabled
Plastic People. “The sound is impeccable, the
lighting’s simple and it’s got that real close,
intimate vibe. Promoters are putting lots of
new electronic producers in there but you’ll
also see people like Theo Parrish, Joy Orbison
and Objekt at La Cheetah,” he says.
The Alt City Guide to Glasgow
Live map: La Cheetah
lacheetahclub.co.uk The Poetry Club
Originally created on-the-fly by Turner- Ad hoc Glasgow
nominated artist Jim Lambie, this diminutive Keep your ear to the ground because,
venue within the vast SWG3 complex in Glasgow, events are often organised
facilitates everything from experimental in “outsider venues”, says McMaster.
theatre to Iron Barz’ battle-rap sessions. From community centres to cricket clubs,
“It’s a weird place,” enthuses McMaster. promoters are constantly searching for
“You can have 40 people in and it feels busy.” novel environments. For instance, this
Live map: The Poetry Club year, experimental festival Counterflows
thepoetryclub.net put Berlin producer Rashad Becker
on at Queens Park Bowling Club.
Art Good Press
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Live map: Good Press
Right:
Annual two-day festival Glasgow Zine Fest
illustrates the vibrancy of Glasgow’s self-
publishing scene. “Zine Fest is a key event
in the DIY calendar,” says Claire Biddles,
Below: How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette) who recently released a new issue of her
by Kameelah Janan Rasheed “pop crushes” zine, Fuck What You Love.
Live map: Transmission Gallery To sample Glasgow’s self-published output,
head to indie publishing hub Good Press: “It’s a
Buzzcut great shop which sells zines and puts on small
This radical art and theatre collective each exhibitions and larger events at other venues.”
spring stages an international festival of Live map: Good Press
performance at the Pearce Institute (in goodpressgallery.co.uk
Govan – for Jameson, “an often forgotten
working class neighbourhood”), and works
hard to engage the local community. For
instance, Govan residents were given free
entrance to last year’s Buzzcut CCA shows.
It is involved in numerous other off-beat
projects, including plans to place performance
artists in late-night club settings and a
workshop on audaciousness that will create Buzzcut 2017
a one-off live art event in central Glasgow. Photo: Silvia Ziranek
Live map: Pearce Institute Live map: Pearce Institute
glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com
Celine Transmission Gallery Mount Florida Studios
Emerging Glasgow artists often exhibit in Forefront of challenging creativity in Glasgow Mount Florida Studios near Hampden Park
disused spaces or their own homes, an since 1983; Jameson says: “Everybody stadium hosts workshops, exhibitions and
idea now formalised in the Open House has had a show at Transmission or some screenings, as well as providing studio space
festival. Patrick Jameson, who with involvement with it.” Group show The Other’d for artists and designers. Projects often utilise Listen to SubClub’s playlist for the
Ellis Luxemburg runs the Queens Park Railway Artist/s explored the experience of black the Studios’ outdoor garden area - for 2018’s Guardian’s alt city guide to Glasgow:
The Alt City Guide to Glasgow
Club, an exhibition space in a suburban artists in Scotland. For Biddles, the show Glasgow International festival, the garden was soundcloud.com/subclub87/sets/
railway station, says the Celine gallery has “mixed an exhibition of work with events and transformed into a sculptural environment glasgow-guardian-playlist
taken that approach to its logical conclusion: a small zine library, which is typical of the by Glasgow-based artist Ric Warren.
“Unfunded, off their own backs (sic), they’ve fluidity that thrives in Glasgow”. As famously Live map: Mount Florida Studios
turned their living room – they still live referenced in Franz Ferdinand’s Do You
there – into a contemporary art space, pulling Want To, there is usually a Transmission party
in people from around the world. The last to accompany its exhibitions too, incorporating [ ]
show was a Swiss artist who drew all over performance, music and DJs. The Pipe Buzzcut 2017
the walls of this old Victorian flat. There’s a Factory is another key artists’ community Photo: Silvia Ziranek Live map: Alt City Guide
nice energy there and you’re aware you’re where lots of interesting things happen. Live map: Pearce Institute Find these and other arts venues,
in someone’s house. It’s like a house party.” Live map: Transmission Gallery networks, a walking tour, and
Live map: Celine transmissiongallery.org more on the ‘Alt City Guide’
galleryceline.com layer of our GSA Live map.
gsa.ac.uk/livemap
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GSA The GSA Live
Creative Networks Creative Networks
Live map: Bluebellgray Live map: My Bookcase
Fi Douglas Christina Garriga
Bluebellgray
Map is a Google Photo: Pablo Llopis, 2017 My Bookcase
Live map Map-based
Fi Douglas, a graduate My Bookcase is a social enterprise founded in 2014 by artist and
of Textile Design, set up alumna Cristina Garriga. In 2017, Katie Reid and Julia Doz joined Garriga
Bluebellgray in 2009 with to expand My Bookcase across the cities of Glasgow, Barcelona and
guide to GSA’s
a clear vision and style in Amsterdam. The project explores the role of the book and its reader
mind; her love of colour and in today’s society and on the book as a social tool for the exchange of
all things floral combined knowledge. The project’s starting point is an online platform, the My
global creative
with a desire to create Bookcase Platform, where readers open up their personal libraries
unique painterly pieces. to share their books in a free and participative way. The intiative is
supported by a network of ‘Meeting Points’; selected spaces in the city
networks,
These vibrant, oversized encouraging the sharing of books and encounters between readers.
water-colour blooms have
become a brand signature and Cristina says “My Bookcase is a social enterprise that aims to empower
connections,
sit harmoniously alongside the reader by offering a creative space to unfold the knowledge
abstract pieces born from Fi’s gathered through private readings. Individual knowledge is brought
natural painting process. into a shared experience to support collective intelligence.”
locations and to
mybookcase.org
Each design is painted by
hand in the Glasgow studio
the city at our
before being printed onto
natural cottons and linens
using state of the art printing [ ]
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heart, Glasgow.
technology. The printing
methods used enable every Alt City Guide to Glasgow
brushstroke and colour to be Alt City Guide Live map: Mono
captured, enhancing the feel to Glasgow
of the hand-painted design. Live map: The Lighthouse Mono
Bluebellgray has grown into The Lighthouse Throughout this guide you Situated amongst the galleries
one of Scotland’s most exciting and studios of King Street in the
textile exports, leading the In the heart of the city centre, will see yellow highlights Merchant City, Mono is a vegan café
floral trend and being stocked The Lighthouse is Scotland’s bar by day and a venue for touring
worldwide in the best design [ ] home for Design and over text. These highlights acts and local bands by night.
boutiques and stores. Architecture. The five storey A long-standing favourite of the city’s
Alt City Guide building was Charles Rennie show that the place, creative residents, it’s also home to
Fi says ‘’I’m a huge believer of to Glasgow Mackintosh’s first public independent record shop Monorail.
feel good design - if my designs Live map: SWG3 commission, and today plays business or person is monocafebar.com
can add a little happiness and host to exhibitions, events and
brightness to someone’s day, SWG3 cultural tenants. Visitors can featured on the Live Map
then I have achieved what I set also take the spiral staircase to
out to do with Bluebellgray’’. Situated in Finnieston in the the top floor viewing platform and shows a map reference.
bluebellgray.com West End of Glasgow, SWG3 for incredible views of Glasgow. [ ]
is a sprawling complex of thelighthouse.co.uk
galleries, bars and studios. Discover the Alt City Guide to Glasgow
A packed programme of Live map:
screenings, parties and gigs GSA Live Map at: Queen’s Park Railway Club
runs throughout the year, with
summer shows in the outdoor www.gsa.ac.uk/livemap Queen’s Park
Galvanizers space - recent acts Railway Club
include LCD Soundsystem,
Young Fathers and The xx. CONTENTS Housed in one of the southside’s
• Creative Networks old railway station waiting rooms,
The complex is also home • Alt City Guide to Glasgow Queen’s Park Railway Club is
GSA Live map
to professional studios for • vOpen Day one of Glasgow’s many artist-run
photography, art and design, galleries, holding exhibitions and
as well as a Case Room of residencies by international and
typographic equipment. Glasgow-based artists alike.
swg3.tv Photo: Tony Webster queensparkrailwayclub.co.uk
GSA Live map
What I Look Like As Stars
Sarah Hilley, Sculpture and
Environmental Art 2018
Live map: Barrowland Ballroom
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Transitions
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Widening
Participation
into art
Our Widening Participation (WP) team
works with young people who live in a
priority postcode, are care experienced or
attend low progression state schools. Our
school
aim is to help young people to understand
what studying a visual creative degree is
like and enable them to build a diverse and
interesting portfolio of work for application
to college or university programmes. On
offer is a range of taster and portfolio
courses alongside special events, delivered
in partnership with galleries, museums and
other creative organisations in Scotland.
We work with our friends from across
the creative sector to offer exciting creative
opportunities. Recently, we have delivered joint
projects with creative organisations including
We work closely
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow Sculpture
Studios, Street Level Photoworks, Risotto
Studio, and Good Press. All of our activities
with young people
are free of charge and take place in the evening,
at weekends and during school holidays, so
as not to clash with the school timetable.
to help them to
We provide impartial specialist advice
to young people for every stage of the
application process to higher education. This
make informed
includes UCAS personal statement support,
digital portfolio guidance, an interview
support workshop and one-to-one mock
decisions about their
interviews. For those who choose to study
at GSA and are successful in gaining a place,
we offer transitional support which includes
future programme
a tour of the annual GSA Degree Show in
June and a five day studio based course in
September before degree programmes begin.
choices, develop More information can be found
at www.gsa.ac.uk/wp
their practical and Macbeth Prize
research skills, The print on the magazine cover and
Glasgow International
WP project
and expand their
the sketchbook pages illustrating this
article are by Alice Feeney, Widening Alumnus Mick Peter collaborated
Participation student and inaugural with young people from the GSA’s
knowledge of
winner of the GSA’s Macbeth Prize. Widening Participation department
The prize is named after the embroiderer for The Regenerators, a major public
and educationalist Ann Macbeth, a GSA artwork commissioned for the Director’s
Transitions into art school
contemporary art,
alumna who taught at the School from Programme of Glasgow International
Alice Feeney, 2018
from sketchbook by
Images: Selections
1902–1929. Macbeth became Director of Festival of Visual Art 2018.
Studies in the Needlecraft-Decorative Art
design, architecture,
Studios in 1912, and is known for her work The result of months of workshops with
promoting design education beyond Peter, the young people, and a group of
GSA’s undergraduate curriculum. guest artists, the project comprised an
innovation, simulation
80m long billboard covering the façade
of Dalmarnock Gas Purifying Shed.
and visualisation.
@youngregenerators
Alice Feeney
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Images: Selections from sketchbook
by Alice Feeney, 2018
I assumed there would be little help for
Macbeth Prize winner those wishing to study at the GSA, and I Silversmithing & Jewellery
[ ] I’ve been involved with GSA’s Widening thought that staff would not be approachable. Craftsmanship and
Participation programme since S4 and Through the WP programme I have seen Design Awards
Creative Networks since then it’s helped my artistic and social how friendly and helpful the staff are, and
confidence grow immensely. The range how keen they are to help anyone with Students and alumni from the
Hamish Dobbie of opportunities available are astounding, art school applications. This has greatly Silversmithing & Jewellery
Hamish Dobbie and it is obvious that all tutors sincerely decreased my worries about applying, and department picked up a
Silversmithing care for participants. There are chances to made me already feel at home at the GSA. multitude of prizes at the
see guided exhibitions by GSA students The Summer Exhibition at GSA during 2018 Craftsmanship and
Glasgow-based Silversmith and by accomplished artists, which shows Degree Show in June was the first experience Design Awards. Student
Hamish Dobbie young artists what contemporary art for many (including me) of showing and winners were Harriet Jenkins
(Silversmithing + Jewellery means in our culture. I highly recommend selling work in a professional environment. who won bronze for junior
2013) creates award winning it to any creative young person and feel This experience is extremely beneficial for silversmithing; Rowan
functional and decorative very lucky to have had the opportunity young artists and gives us a taste of what Berry who won bronze for
objects using sterling silver and to make use of this programme. we can expect in the future. It helps us to smallworks, and Anne Lahn
select pieces of hardwoods. I’ve very much enjoyed working with understand our work in a public context. This Hornbaek Hansen who
other creative young people. I assumed most means we evaluate our art in a completely won two golds for fashion
Hamish utilises advanced people would just be interested in drawing different light, allowing it to develop and grow. jewellery and best 2D
technologies such as 3D and painting, but a huge number of people My next steps are to apply to GSA once I presentation. Alumni winners
printing, Welding and CNC I’ve met are interested in practises like have (hopefully) gained an Advanced Higher were Aillie Anderson, Paula
milling to create elegant woodworking, architecture and textiles. This Art qualification. I am most looking forward to Sloane, Karen Westland,
and intricate work inspired has opened me up to new ways of creating learning more from other artists, learning new and Scarlet Cohn French.
by the rugged landscape of art, as has the varying tastes and styles skills and pushing myself artistically. I hope to
Western Scotland. Taking of the young people I’ve worked with. eventually make a living as a freelance artist.
visual inspiration from the Associate Student Schemes
landscape of Scotland, which
he finds very relaxing despite Students who start at the GSA in Year 2 or 3 have articulated
its ‘aggressive’ appearance, directly from courses at further education colleges. GSA works with
Hamish contrasts textures colleges to facilitate collaboration and support progression as well
and forms with smooth as providing information for applicants and entrants from college.
geometric surfaces.
The GSA currently runs two Associate Student Schemes to support and
By combing both traditional encourage progression to the GSA with advanced standing following 1–2
skills and contemporary years of study at college. Like much of our work with colleges, these
techniques, he is able to partnerships help support widening access for a diverse group of learners.
transform the intricate Associate Students engage in additional learning activities with the
linear designs, flowing GSA including access to our Library and online learning community.
curves and natural forms
that inspire his work, into
beautiful constructed Glasgow Clyde College: Forth Valley College:
and sculptural objects. HNC Art & Design HND Sound Production
Around 20 students studying on the HNC Art This Associate Student Scheme works with
Hamish shows his passion and Design at the College’s Langside campus a group of HND Sound Production students
for detail, precision and participate in the Scheme with the aim of during their second year of study to prepare
quality craftsmanship that progressing to second year at the GSA. With them for Year 3 entry to the BDes (Hons)
is key to his practice in a broad art and design curriculum similar to Sound for the Moving Image programme in
all of his designs. From a a Foundation diploma, the HNC explores a the School of Simulation and Visualisation
simple pair of study earrings range of subject areas and disciplines to help (SimVis). Through a combination of practical
to a complex multi-part students find the best fit for them. All of the workshops and critical and contextual studies
jewellery box – each one undergraduate programmes in the School lectures, SimVis staff help the Associates
meticulously hand-finished of Fine Art and School of Design (except explore their discipline in new and exciting
and wonderfully unique. Interaction Design and Product Design ways – first to determine whether the BDes
hamishtdobbie.co.uk Engineering) participate in this Scheme programme is right for them and then
with academics contributing to tutorials to prepare them for further study at the
and visits with students and staff at the GSA. The first cohort of Associates began
Transitions into art school
College. While the College challenges the study at the GSA in September 2018.
students to expand and develop their creative
practice through an intense programme of
study, the Scheme at the GSA focuses on
preparing students for the transition from
college to art school. In September 2018, the
third group of Glasgow Clyde Associates
entered the GSA as full-time students.
For more information on these Schemes, contact the Progression Manager,
Elizabeth Beidler on e.beidler@gsa.ac.ukSingapore
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Left: Transitional Space Rendered Perspective,
Azalea Tan, Interior Design 2018
Bottom left: Greyspace,
Amanda Cheng, Interior Design 2018
Below: Rendezvous Magazine, Tengku Azlan,
Communication Design 2018
Live map: GSA Singapore
From September 2012, the GSA has delivered Greyspace Mobile Lotus
Preventing isolation Cambodian design workshop
years 3 and 4 of its Bachelor of Art (Hons) Greyspace is a personal project by In late 2017, Interior Design
Interior Design graduate Amanda students from GSofA Singapore
Programmes in Communication Design and Cheng, inspired by the fierce joined forces with architecture
independence of her grandmother. and design students from
Interior Design in Singapore, in partnership “I was greatly influenced by her Australia and Cambodia for the
keenness to age in place, which collaborative project MOBILE
with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) drove me to develop Greyspace,” LOTUS. Designed by WY-TO
explains Cheng. “It is a part architects, MOBILE LOTUS
and Temasek Polytechnic (TP). The programmes residential, part commercial is a floating platform that
project contained within a two- supports the local infrastructure
enable Diploma students from one of Singapore’s bedroom flat, that aims to reduce of TonléSap Lake UNESCO
isolation and enable members Biosphere Reserve, offering
Polytechnics to progress from a Diploma of society across all ages to find residents access to regular
a place amongst each other.” healthcare and health education.
to a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree. Participating students
undertook a 10-day research,
Students studying in Singapore Rendezvous design and build workshop led
benefit from not only the same magazine by WY-TO architects, where they
programme of study and award Hidden gems researched, designed, built and
as in the home institution, and Rendezvous is a cultural magazine tested a mock-up of the MOBILE
resources and equipment developed by Communication LOTUS. “We were very lucky to
according to GSA specifications, Design graduate Tengku Azlan, be able to be part of the Mobile
but also access to the additional looking at hidden spaces in Lotus Workshop to build a better
specialist resources, equipment Singapore. “The No Name living environment for the locals,”
and workshops of TP. Issue covers the story of the said Interior Design student, Lee
Each student studying longest running teh tarik stall Pei Shan. “The workshop was
in Singapore also has the in Singapore – which happens split into four groups (Floating,
opportunity to spend four weeks to be nameless in Google Framing structure, Facades and
in Scotland at the GSA working Maps,” says Azlan of the issue Interior Design) to work on but
directly with their counterparts developed for the 2018 Degree it was all interrelated so students
in the same programmes based Show. “The issue also features a had the chance to experience
in Glasgow. This extra credit- story of a roadside barber, which and gain knowledge of each
bearing component provides a is probably the last of its kind.” aspect.” The intense 10-day
chance to experience the history “Each student studying workshop ended with a public
of Glasgow and the GSA, of exhibition, attended by the public
the local cultural and industrial Walk the chalk in Singapore also has and local design professionals.
context, and location-specific Car-free Sunday project
projects drawing on all of these. In May 2018, four Communication the opportunity to
Design students devised Walk
We take a look at just the Chalk, a public project spend four weeks in
some of the exciting envisaging a less congested city
global collaborations and for Singapore’s annual Car-Free Scotland at the GSA.”
highlights in Singapore Sunday. The initiative invited
from over the last year: members of the public to doodle GSA In China:
on a car-free road, demonstrating
the potential vibrancy of the city Representative Office
with fewer cars. “We wanted to
be involved in a project that not GSA’s archives reveal that GSA hosted visiting Chinese painters
only talks about the environment [ ] from The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) as far back as
but actually does something 1902. Since 2009 GSA has had a Representative Office in Beijing
about it,” said final year student Live map: vOpen Day that supports partnership work in China. Our chosen Chinese
Diana Ainee. “The convenience Find the Singapore campus, partners - Tsinghua University, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Singapore
of a car comes at the expense of alumni networks and more on (LAFA) and CAFA benefit, as GSA does, from these partnerships
the environment as it contributes the ‘vOpen Day’ layer of our through student and staff exchange opportunities, development
to increasing carbon emission. GSA Live map. Try searching of curricula and research and participation in joint exhibitions.
By going car-lite, we will have the map for ‘Singapore’. info@china.gsa.ac.uk
more space to do fun things!” gsa.ac.uk/livemap21
Delve into the GSA Hub, where you will
find social media posts from students,
staff, alumni, friends and visitors
of the GSA. Follow your interests,
discover events, exhibitions, artists,
architects, musicians, designers and
more. Get an insight into what it is like
to study at GSA, opportunities to get
involved, and see what is happening
on and off campus right now, among
the many locations in which our
community live, work and study.
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Creative Networks
Live map: Catherine MacGruer
Catherine MacGruer
www.gsa.ac.uk/thehub
Image selection taken from
Catherine MacGruer Textiles
The GSA Hub
Catherine MacGruer graduated
from GSA after specialising
in Knitted Textile Design
and opened her own studio
in the Highlands of Scotland
www.gsa.ac.uk/thehub in 2015. Her portfolio of
work includes textile design,
development, commissions
and collaborative projects, as
well as her own range of interior
and fashion accessories.
Characterised by geometric
shapes, meticulously considered
compositions and uniquely Owing to her dedication and All products are knitted in the UK
inspired colour ways, Catherine’s talent, Catherine was awarded using the highest quality Merino
signature designs have a strong the New Design Britain Award in wool and hand finished in the
focus on the relationship 2015. Her work has been on studio. Catherine works closely
between carefully balanced bold display at the National Gallery with two small knit facilities
shapes, and all of her work is of Scotland and is currently in Leicester and Shetland,
informed by the craft, history stocked in selected design and she strongly believes in
The GSA Hub
of design. Combined with and interior stores including supporting the UK Textile
the highest quality materials, Heal’s, where one of her designs industry and value working
Catherine produces beautiful was recently selected as one with such skilled professionals.
contemporary textile works of their ‘Heal’s 100’ iconic catherinemacgruer.com
which are made to be treasured. designs of the last 100 years.vOpen Days,
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Live map: vOpen Day Pre-Application Introduction to
Sessions Art School Days
vOpen Days These might be for you if: These might be for you if:
Advice +
Your first port of call. Virtual Open Days
(vOpen Days) might be for you if: • You know which programme • You haven’t visited
you would like to apply to, Glasgow before,
• You are thinking about studying either at
GSA or an art school education generally, • You are a prospective • You would like to find out
undergraduate student, more general information
Introductions
• You are not sure which programme on programmes in person.
of study might suit you, • You are in the process of
making an application to GSA These larger events are for wider
• You want to know more about entry or are about to make one. interest and include diagnostic
requirements, how to apply and talks, an information hall and
studying in Glasgow, This is an opportunity to pop talks about direct entry to years
in to GSA and visit a specific 2 + 3, and careers/enterprise.
• You live somewhere that might make department as part of a small You might also be able to book
it difficult to travel to GSA, specialist group. Visit the on an Insider’s guide to the
department, ask more direct city tour by one of our student
• You have a question and would like questions in person with other guides (limited numbers apply).
to speak to someone at GSA, applicants and interact with
staff and students. You will Come along to one of our
• You have access to a computer, receive advice directly from Introduction to Art School Days:
laptop or smartphone and wifi. that department on applying Undergraduate:
to them, submitting a portfolio, 25 Oct + 1 Nov, 10am – 3pm
Come online with GSA to experience producing a personal statement, Postgraduate:
our virtual Open Days. Here you can and attending an interview. 24 Nov, 11am – 3pm
browse our programmes virtually and
meet some of our staff, and register Register for Pre-Application To book a place or see if we
for a range of helpful advice sessions Sessions - follow @GSAregistry are visiting a recruitment
and group Q+As with our programme on Facebook or visit fair or event near you - visit
tutors and dedicated admissions team www.gsa.ac.uk/gsaopen www.gsa.ac.uk/gsaopen
on topics from our programmes to
portfolios, visas and accommodation.
vOpen Days are available to book Our programmes
on a series of dates throughout the For more information at any time on all of our undergraduate and
year, starting in September 2018 – postgraduate programmes offered, and to download or view our
check the site for latest details. programme specifications visit our website at www.gsa.ac.uk/study
Register for one of our vOpen Days
now at www.gsa.ac.uk/vOpenDay
Thinking of studying at
GSA? We offer a range of
vOpen Days, Advice + Introductions
opportunities throughout
the year to get the right
application information Far left: CC TV, Christian Noelle
at the right time, online
Charles, Master of Fine Art 2018
Left: Mortal Myths for Machine Minds,
and in person.
Cain Martin, Interaction Design 2018
Above: Untitled, Ryan Hughes, Textile Design 2018Degree Show
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Work by Zoe Beaudry
at MFA Degree Show 2018
Live map: The Glue Factory
Eclectic, exciting and provocative
–Degree Show is the GSA’s annual
showcase of undergraduate and
postgraduate work. Starting in
Glasgow, the show continues
in venues across London and
Singapore, bringing the work
of the GSA community to a
worldwide audience.
Transitional Space Rendered Perspective, Azalea Tan, Interior Design 2018
Lost Your Head?, Claudia Veneroni, Textile Design 2018
Far right: Singapore Degree Show poster. Image credit:
Right: London Degree Show poster. Image credit:
Far right: Degree Show poster. Image credit: ‘You would be home now if you lived here.’
Right: Summer Exhibition poster. Image credit: Risotto Studio’s RISO ROOM workshop,
Dubois County Museum, Flannery O’kafka, Fine Art Photography 2018
Widening Participation S4 Taster Week students 2018
Degree ShowFree Range
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Left: Work by Sarah Louise Keber
This year’s Interior Design
Below: Painting & Printmaking
graduates took their Degree
Live map: Tontine Building
at MFA Degree Show 2018
Show projects to the Free Range
graduate Kaytlin Scott at
Live map: Glue Factory
showcase in London, where they
scooped two of the four in-show
Degree Show 2018
awards and first place in one of
the two national awards. Nikita
Harrison, winner of the first prize
for written work in the Interior
Educators (IE) National Awards,
deftly explored the thorny subject
of ‘Maximalism’ with subtlety
and precision. Damien Loch was
winner of the in-show award for
Most Innovative Response, and
Meg Horne was winner in the
Best 2D Representation category.
Above: Communication Design
at Degree Show 2018
Live map: Reid Building
Live map: Reid Building
Left: Architecture at Degree Show 2018
Graduate
Show 2018 Fashion Design Showcase
Live map: Savoy Tower
Live map: Graduate Fashion Week
Morag Seaton at Degree Show 2018
Left: Work by Flint Macdonald at Degree
Right: Work by Fashion Design graduate
Fashion Week
2018’s Fashion Design cohort
brought their designs to Graduate
Fashion Week, where they caught
TexSelect 2018 the eye of industry professionals
Textile Design graduates Eve including American Vogue critic
Campbell, MJ McKasiarz, Erin Sarah Mower, who praised the
McQuarrie, Alice Percy-Raine, collections on her Instagram.
Catherine Sinclair and Claudia Morag Seaton was runner up in
Veneroni have been selected for the Dame Vivienne Westwood
the 2018 TexSelect programme. Sustainable and Ethical Award,
Each year, only 24 designers while Flint Macdonald and Jacob
are chosen for the mentoring Pulley were selected for the
and promotion programme, prestigious Gala Presentation.
which offers the opportunity to
showcase in London and Paris.
Degree Show29
Right: Fine Art at Degree Show 2018
Jewellery graduate Rachel Hardie
Below: Work by Silversmithing &
Newbery Medal
Live map: Tontine Building
Textile Design graduate Erin
Live map: New Designers
McQuarrie is the 2018 recipient
of the Newbery Medal, the
GSA’s highest honour awarded
annually to the top undergraduate
student at graduation. For her
Degree Show, McQuarrie created
a collection of textiles inspired
by the Mackintosh Building.
Summer Exhibition New Designers
graduate Erin McQuarrie
at Degree Show 2018
Live map: Reid Building
Live map: New Designers
Below: Communication Design
Right: Work by Textile Design
Students from the GSA’s Silversmithing & Jewellery Other S+J graduate winners
Widening Participation graduate Rachel Hardie has were Ailsa Morrant, who received
and Portfolio Preparation won the Goldsmiths’ Company the Mark Fenn Association
programmes showcased their Silversmithing Award at New of Contemporary Jewellery
work in a Summer Exhibition Designers 2018. The prize Award and the Hallmark Studio
in Glasgow, as part of Degree includes a bursary and work Award, and Caitlin Hegney, Katie
Show 2018. The exhibition experience in a professional Watson and Aileen Gray, who all
included multimedia work by silversmithing workshop at the won Goldsmiths Centre Talent
students from secondary schools Goldsmiths’ Centre. Judges Spotted Awards. Textile Design
across the West of Scotland, praised, “the explanatory graduate Eve Campbell also
and full portfolios created by nature of this series, specifically saw success at New Designers,
students who were successful the construction of Hardie’s winning the John Lewis Award
in gaining a place at art school. forms which include a pleasing for Design and Innovation.
‘sketch-like’ quality and unique
approach to creating the vessels.”
Above: Widening
Summer Exhibition 2018
Live map: Fleming House
Participation work at the
Above: GSofA Singapore Degree Show 2018
Live map: SOTA Gallery
Left: Painting & Printmaking graduate
Degree Show
Kirsty McArthur at Degree Show 2018
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programmes A–Z
Theresa Moerman Ib
Below: Case room,
GSA Reid Building
photography by
Live map:
www.gsa.ac.uk/study
3D Modelling Games and Virtual Reality Painting and Printmaking Product Design Engineering Sound for the
Award: BSc (Hons) English for Award: BSc (Hons) Award: BA (Hons) Fine Art Award: BEng (Hons)/MEng Moving Image
Immersive Systems Design Creative Disciplines Immersive Systems Design UCAS code: W120 Product Design Engineering Award: BDes (Hons)
UCAS code: W617 Award: N/A UCAS code: G450 www.gsa.ac.uk/ Apply to the University of Glasgow Sound for the Moving Image
www.gsa.ac.uk/3Dmodelling Apply directly to the School www.gsa.ac.uk/gamesvr paintingandprintmaking UCAS code: H3W2 (BEng) H3WG UCAS code: PW33
This programme equips students www.gsa.ac.uk/english This programme offers students Painting and Printmaking aims to (MEng) Institution Code: G28 www.gsa.ac.uk/soundmoving
with a skill set in practical A three-month discipline- the opportunity to gain an equip students with the necessary www.gsa.ac.uk/pde This programme offers the
software and immersive specific language provision understanding of application skills and expertise to realise Product Design Engineering opportunity to engage with
systems (Augmented and course for international development for games and their full creative potential, in the is an award-winning degree the craft and creative practice
Virtual Reality) development, students who have virtual reality, alongside skills for context of both contemporary programme, offered jointly of sound production applied
combining knowledge of been offered a place creating engaging and immersive and historical fine art practice. with the University of to film, animation, television,
how software and hardware on an undergraduate or interactive experiences. Glasgow. Students focus on new media, electronic games
digital systems function with postgraduate course at the development of innovative and visual art. Students enter
modelling and animation skills. GSA on the condition that Interaction Design Portfolio Preparation products to support changing directly into Year 3, articulating
they improve their English Award: BA (Hons) Award: N/A and increasingly sophisticated from HND programmes or with
Architecture (BArch) up to a level required by a Interaction Design Apply directly to the School human needs and lifestyles. relevant professional experience.
Award: Bachelor of Architecture given GSA programme. UCAS code: W280 www.gsa.ac.uk/openstudio
UCAS code: K100 www.gsa.ac.uk/interaction The GSA’s Portfolio courses Sculpture and Textile Design
www.gsa.ac.uk/barch Interaction Design embraces the enable students to develop Environmental Art Award: BA (Hons) Textile Design
The Bachelor of Architecture Fashion Design creative possibilities opened up a portfolio of work for Award: BA (Hons) Fine Art UCAS code: W231
programme leads to an Ordinary Award: BA (Hons) Fashion Design by new technologies. Students submission to HE/FE courses UCAS code: W130 www.gsa.ac.uk/textile
or Honours degree and to UCAS code: W230 learn the fundamentals of code in Art and Design. A range of www.gsa.ac.uk/ Textile Design is concerned with
exemption from Part 1 of the www.gsa.ac.uk/fashion alongside visual thinking and Portfolio courses are available sculptureenvironmental the design of cloth for interiors
Examination in Architecture of This programme aims to create creative problem-solving, enabling including part-time evening Sculpture extends beyond and fashion, and is composed of
the ARB/RIBA. It covers design, assured fashion design graduates the creation of interactive and day courses, Saturday the conventional boundaries four subject specialisms – print,
construction, environmental with clear individual and creative virtual and physical artefacts. courses, and week long of object-making to knit, weave and embroidery.
science, history, sociology, identities, specialising in either Summer School courses. encompass a wide range of Students use traditional process
economics, law and management. menswear or womenswear. Interior Design* contemporary processes and and digital technology to acquire,
Students honour and learn from Award: BA (Hons) Interior Design media. Environmental Art integrate and challenge textile
Architecture (DipArch) fashion traditions, learning to UCAS code: W250 Product Design prepares students to develop practices through studio-based
Award: Diploma in Architecture balance originality of concept www.gsa.ac.uk/interiordesign Award: BDes (Hons)/MEDes work in relation to sites and activity and live projects.
Apply directly to the School with design viability. Interior Design at the GSA is Product Design UCAS code: HW72 contexts beyond the gallery.
www.gsa.ac.uk/diparch about enriching buildings to www.gsa.ac.uk/productdesign
This programme is designed for Fine Art Photography create exciting and practical The Product Design programme Silversmithing
students who intend to enter Award: BA (Hons) Fine Art environments in which people focuses upon the role of the and Jewellery
the architectural profession, UCAS code: W640 can live and work. Students use designer as the creator of Award: BA (Hons)
and confers exemption from www.gsa.ac.uk/ traditional methods alongside objects, services and experiences. Silversmithing and Jewellery
Part II of the Examination in fineartphotography digital methods of representation, The programme includes the Collaborative performance UCAS code: W721 Please note that all our degree
Architecture ARB/RIBA. Students studying Fine Art such as CAD, 3D-printing and study of European languages, Last Futures www.gsa.ac.uk/ programmes are subject to
Photography blend conceptual, immersive virtual-imaging. research methods from the social silversmithingandjewellery alteration and applicants should
Communication Design* aesthetic and technological sciences and study in partner Performers, artists and Silversmithing and Jewellery consult the relevant programme
Award: BA (Hons) awareness to create photography International Foundation institutions around the globe. designers from across Glasgow covers aspects of body pages on the GSA website
Communication Design in a fine art context. The use of in Art and Design came together in March 2108 adornment and fine metalworking before making an application.
UCAS code: W213 a range of media is encouraged, Award: CertHE in Art and Design for Last Futures, an ambitious from the development of original
www.gsa.ac.uk/comdes including photo-mechanical, UCAS code: WW12 performance event and design concepts through to the For information about
Undergraduate programmes
Communication Design covers stills, video and text. www.gsa.ac.uk/intfoundation exhibition at Tramway devised finely crafted finished work. new programmes under
three streams; illustration, design This year-long programme is Programmes marked * by students from the GSA, development, please visit
photography and graphic aimed at students whose first are available to study The Royal Conservatoire of www.gsa.ac.uk/newprogrammes
design. Students explore the language is not English, and at GSofA Singapore. Scotland, and the University
traditional skills of drawing, allows students from outside of Glasgow, accompanied by
printing, photography and Europe to familiarise themselves the BBC Scottish Symphony
other graphic processes with with the culture and language Orchestra. Last Futures
video, sound and animation. of the art school studio before took the socio-political
applying to creative visual movements of 1968 as its
degree programmes. starting point, and marked the
third ambitious collaboration
between the four institutions.How to apply:
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undergraduate
www.gsa.ac.uk/howtoapply
We accept a wide range of UK A Levels Direct Entry to UCAS Application timetable Application process key dates
and international qualifications Second or Third Year All applicants (except DipArch Application forms should be submitted to UCAS online from 5 September Application Form submitted to UCAS online
for admission. Please note that Design, Fine Art, or Simulation (Design, Fine Art, Architecture, portfolio 2018 – 15 January 2019. The deadline for non-EU applications is 5 Sept 2018 - 15 Jan 2019 (deadline 30 June for non-EU applications)
entry requirements listed on and Visualisation: 3 A Levels at or Simulation and preparation, study abroad and 30 June, but early application is encouraged. www.ucas.com
these pages reflect GSA’s ABB and GCSE English at Grade A. Visualisation) exchange) applying for the GSA’s Applicants to all programmes (with the exception of Product Design Supporting Visual Materials submitted to GSA
Standard Entry Requirements, You must be able to satisfy the undergraduate programmes Engineering) are to submit Supporting Visual Materials – a digital by 22 Jan 2019 (except Product Design Engineering)
are not limited to those shown, Architecture: 3 A Levels School that you have undertaken should apply online at portfolio – by 22 January 2019. Completed applications are assessed
and are subject to alteration. at ABB to include Maths or a period of study equivalent www.ucas.ac.uk – GSA on receipt from the start of January, so early submission is encouraged. For more details of how to apply, guidelines for Supporting Visual
Applicants should check the Physics, and GCSE English to the first, or first and second Institutional Code is G43. To submit, and for help on how to upload and re-size your Materials, frequently asked questions, or to rescale the size of
GSA website for current entry Language at Grade A. year, of the degree programme. Applicants for Product digital portfolio images, visit application.gsa.ac.uk this text visit our website at www.gsa.ac.uk/howtoapply
requirements before making This may include an art Design Engineering should
an application: BDes/MEDes Product Design: foundation or HND qualification. apply using the University
www.gsa.ac.uk/howtoapply 3 A Levels at ABB. Should of Glasgow code, G28.
normally include a modern Direct Entry to 1 Submit application form 6 Informed of final decision
Standard Entry language other than English Third Year (Sound for Supporting Visual Materials
Requirements Language, and GCSE the Moving Image) (digital portfolio) Submit Application Form Applications can be made from Applicants are informed of final The School will aim to process
English at Grade A. Entry to this programme is to year All applicants (except those to UCAS (ucas.com) 5 September until 15 January decision through UCAS results by 31 March. Decisions
Scottish Highers 3 only, either from FE college via applying for Product Design (30 June for non-EU applications) for oversubscribed programmes
Design, Fine Art, or Simulation BEng/MEng Product Design articulation OR with appropriate Engineering) will need to or applications submitted past
and Visualisation: 4 Highers Engineering: See the University HND or equivalent qualification upload Supporting Visual the deadline may be processed
at ABBB (one sitting) or of Glasgow website for details: and portfolio. An appropriate Materials (digital portfolio) at through UCAS until early May*
AABB (two sittings). gla.ac.uk/ college qualification would application.gsa.ac.uk
undergraduate/degrees/ be a minimum pass in a HND in order to complete the initial
Architecture: 4 Highers at productdesignengineering programme with a significant stage of their application. This 2 Submit supporting visual materials 7 Accept or decline
ABBB (one sitting) or AABB sound and/or music production site also contains information on
(two sittings) to include Other Qualifications element. Direct applicants will how to upload images correctly. Submit Supporting Visual Materials Supporting Visual Materials must Applicants accept (Firm or Insurance) Applicants must accept or decline
English Language and Maths Details on required grades have to provide evidence of skills and Statement to GSA (not required be submitted by 22 January or decline offers through UCAS places by 4 May (if offered
or Physics, and preferably Art. for those holding/taking the in sound production via a portfolio. Most undergraduate programmes for Product Design Engineering) before the 31 March) or 8 June
International Baccalaureate, Entry via equivalent professional conduct a portfolio interview (if offered after 31 March)*
BDes/MEDes Product Design: the Scottish Baccalaureate, experience will also require a with applicants before
4 Highers at ABBB (one sitting) or the Irish Leaving Certificate portfolio as well as at least one offering them a place.
or AABB (two sittings). are available on our website. reference from a practicing 3 Apply for accommodation 8 Submit accommodation application
Normally at least one of the audio-visual professional.
Highers should be a modern Applicants from outside the UK Work on application for GSA If you wish to stay in on-campus Submit application for GSA The deadline for completed
language other than English. and Ireland should consult our English Language Halls of Residence accommodation, you can Halls of Residence applications is 31 May 2019
international student pages for Requirements apply between November at 5pm
BEng/MEng Product details of accepted qualifications We ask all our applicants to show 2018 and 31 May 2019
Design Engineering: from specific countries: evidence of their ability in English Guidelines for
See the University of Glasgow www.gsa.ac.uk/international language before they are offered Applicants and
website for details: gla.ac.uk/ a place of study. For UK applicants Sample Portfolios 4 Application with GSA 9 Submit scholarship application
undergraduate/degrees/ this is either Scottish Higher or Information on how the
productdesignengineering GCSE. International applicants application is assessed GSA assesses application and visual Completed applications are assessed Submit application for The deadline for completed
are normally asked to provide an and samples of successful material (if applicable) against entry on receipt. Early submission GSA Scholarships applications is 31 May 2019 at 5pm –
IELTS certificate with a suitable digital portfolios can requirements and supporting visual is therefore encouraged please note that scholarship deadlines
score – current requirements be found at criteria (see website for details) from non-GSA sources will differ
are listed on our website. www.gsa.ac.uk/
sampleportfolios
5 Invite to interview 10 Submit visa application
Selected applicants will be invited Interviews will be held from Students from outside the You can submit your visa
Help and Queries for a portfolio interview - a 20 late January - mid March EU – apply for visa application from three months
For assistance in any aspect minute discussion with two staff before your programme start date
How to apply
of making an application, members about your interest in – so late June – early July 2019.
contact our Registry team: the programme and portfolio You should start preparing documents
registry@gsa.ac.uk (which you bring with you) for submission much earlier than this
+44 (0)141 353 4512
facebook.com/gsaregistry
* Please note these dates are subject to change and applicants should check with UCAS for up-to-date information before submitting an application.Postgraduate
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programmes A–Z
Below: Loom Room,
Theresa Moerman Ib
photography by
www.gsa.ac.uk/graduatedegrees
Diploma in Architecture* MDes Design Innovation MDes Interior Design Master of Letters in MSc Product Design
www.gsa.ac.uk/diparch & Citizenship English for www.gsa.ac.uk/interiorspg Fine Art Practice Engineering
This programme is designed for www.gsa.ac.uk/designandcit Creative Disciplines MDes Interior Design students www.gsa.ac.uk/fineartpractice www.gsa.ac.uk/pde
students who intend to enter This programme offers www.gsa.ac.uk/english develop a reflective portfolio of A taught programme with six Delivered by the GSA and
the architectural profession, students the opportunity to A three-month discipline- work to a professional standard, pathways: Photography and the the University of Glasgow, this
and confers exemption from address the prevailing and specialist language and are encouraged to examine Moving Image; Painting; Drawing; programme teaches skills in the
Part II of the Examination in emerging social and economic provision course for emerging aspects of the discipline, Print Media; Performance; and areas of user-centred design,
Architecture ARB/RIBA. factors shaping production of international students who such as sustainability, material Sculpture. Students applying product design, mechanical
interactions, interfaces, services have been offered a place innovation and accessible design. to the programme identify engineering, and electronic
MArch Architecture and experiences, and their on an undergraduate or in advance which pathway and electrical engineering.
(by Conversion) impact upon lived experience. postgraduate course at MSc International they would like to study.
www.gsa.ac.uk/archconv GSA on the condition that Heritage Visualisation* MSc Serious Games
Students who achieve a high MDes Design Innovation they improve their English www.gsa.ac.uk/intheritage Master of Research (MRes)* & Virtual Reality
standard in the final design thesis & Environmental Design up to a level required by a This programme presents a www.gsa.ac.uk/mres www.gsa.ac.uk/seriousgames
of the DipArch can proceed www.gsa.ac.uk/designandenv given GSA programme. unique opportunity to combine This bespoke programme Serious Games & Virtual Reality
to the MArch (by Conversion), This programme focuses on the architecture and heritage constitutes an alternative choice allows students to design,
where there is an opportunity role of the designer in the context with state-of-the-art digital to an MPhil or a taught MRes. It develop and analyse games, and
to develop an aspect of their of place. Students explore how MSc Environmental technologies, including 3D can be theoretical or practice- encourages interdisciplinary
DipArch thesis in greater depth. Design Innovation can be applied Architecture laser scanning and virtual based, and can be offered within research in serious applications
through the development of new www.gsa.ac.uk/envarch reality visualisation. any of the GSA’s five specialist of games technology across
MArch Architectural interactions and experiences. This programme provides students schools (Fine Art, Architecture, sectors such as healthcare,
Studies with specialist knowledge and MSc International Design, Visualisation and education, and cultural heritage.
www.gsa.ac.uk/march MDes Design Innovation insight into the relationships Management & Simulation, Innovation) and
Students develop an individual & Service Design between low energy architectural Design Innovation within a range of contexts. MDes Sound for the
thesis within one of seven www.gsa.ac.uk/designinnovation design, energy and indoor www.gsa.ac.uk/intmanage Moving Image
pathways: Urban Design, Creative This programme equips students environmental performance, This programme is offered by MSc Medical Visualisation www.gsa.ac.uk/sound
Urban Practices, Urban Building, with the theory and practice and building occupants, the University of Glasgow and & Human Anatomy* This programme offers the
Digital Creativity, Energy and of designing meaningful incorporating academic and taught in partnership with the www.gsa.ac.uk/medvis opportunity to engage with the
Environmental Studies, History and memorable customer practical elements as well as the GSA. The programme addresses Offered in collaboration with craft and creative practice of
and Theory of the City, and Zero experiences through live projects. chance to work on live projects. and explores the intersection the Laboratory of Human sound production applied to film,
Energy Mass Customised Housing. Students learn to put peoples’ between design and business. Anatomy, University of Glasgow, animation, television, new media,
experiences at the heart of MDes Fashion + Textiles this programme provides electronic games and visual art, as
MDes Communication design research while developing www.gsa.ac.uk/ Master of Fine Art (MFA) an opportunity to combine well as equipping students with
Design innovative and meaningful fashionandtextiles www.gsa.ac.uk/mfa cadaveric dissection with 3D the tools required to develop a
www.gsa.ac.uk/commdesign service design proposals that An advanced skills programme A two-year, multidisciplinary digital reconstruction, and research project within this field.
A two-year practice-led will be industry leading. allowing graduates to develop programme, offering students interaction using state-of-the-
programme, during which their individual ‘design signature’. an extraordinary opportunity to art virtual reality facilities.
students have the opportunity Doctoral Study The programme is studio-based analyse, develop and secure their
to develop work in graphics, (MPhil or PhD)* with workshops for weave, studio practice in depth. MFA PG Cert Learning and
illustration or photography in www.gsa.ac.uk/phd print, dye knit, digital jacquard alumni include five Turner Prize Teaching/Supervisory
the context of a rigorous but The GSA has a distinctive weave, embroidery and CAD, winners: Simon Starling, Richard Practices in the
supportive intellectual climate. specialist, practice based and allows access to the Centre Wright, Martin Boyce, Douglas RADAR Research New Programmes Creative Disciplines* All programmes listed above
research culture that is widely for Advanced Textiles (CAT). Gordon and Duncan Campbell. Repository We are currently developing www.gsa.ac.uk/pgcert and on the previous page are
MLitt Curatorial Practice recognised internationally. We Browse the digital archive of new postgraduate degree The PG Cert in Learning and based at the GSA’s campuses
(Contemporary Art) offer part-time and full-time MDes Graphics/ Master of Letters our research output across programmes and pathways - Teaching enables staff in UK HEIs and buildings in Glasgow.
Postgraduate programmes
www.gsa.ac.uk/curatorial programmes of research, starting Illustration/Photography in Art Writing Architecture, Criticism, Design, check our website for updates. and related professional fields to
This programme engages with in September each year. View www.gsa.ac.uk/gip www.gsa.ac.uk/artwriting Digital, and Fine Art. www.gsa.ac.uk/ develop their teaching practice Programmes marked * can
varied modes of contemporary profiles of primary research This programme aiming to furnish Drawing from disciplines including radar.gsa.ac.uk newpgprogrammes in the creative disciplines. The be studied part-time.
curatorial practice, be supervisors on our website at students with the research skills visual art, art criticism, art history PG Cert in Supervision enables
they collections, archives, www.gsa.ac.uk/supervisors and methods for stimulating and literature, this programme the supervision of research Please note that all our degree
contemporary art or performative innovative communication involves creative, philosophical, projects at postgraduate level. programmes are subject to
practices. Students develop a design practices in one of the critical and theoretical approaches Both PG Certs are available alteration and applicants should
professional, outward-looking three specialisms. Applicants to writing about art, writing in part-time mode only. consult the relevant programme
focus, and collaborate with should identify their chosen with art and writing as art. pages on the GSA website
cultural institutions across the city. pathway in the application. before making an application.You can also read
