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photo credit : Mark Mattock
The Glasgow School of Art is the first art institution in the UK to receive a donation in the memory of Judy Blame, the iconoclastic art director, stylist and jewellery designer.
The donation will fund two students across their four years of study, and two one-year portfolio bursary awards each year for four years. The two GSA students who received the Judy Blame Bursaries are Andy Situma who is studying for a BArch, and Hayley Wong Hei Yi who is studying for a BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting & Printmaking. The Portfolio bursaries have also been awarded.
These awards have been created to continue Judy Blame’s creative legacy by providing targeted support to students in financial need. The award has been created by Trust Judy Blame (known formally as The Judy Blame Charitable Trust) in order to continue his lifelong commitment to nurturing young talent and providing opportunities, advocacy, and education.
The Trust aims to address the educational inequality that can disproportionally affect under-served communities including people of colour, women, and LGBTQIA+ people.
Judy Blame (1960-2018) was a tireless creative force. His work as a stylist, art director, designer and boundary-crossing artist continues to inspire and influence today. With punk rock as his education, Judy was a pivotal and provocative character, a self-taught polymath in the worlds of fashion and art.
Amongst his many creative projects he helped to style and develop the look of some of the most significant recording artists of the 1980’s and 90’s, including Neneh Cherry, Boy George, Bjork and Massive Attack. Throughout the years he also collaborated with an incredible array of designers such Marc Jacobs, Rei Kawakubo, Kim Jones, Anthony Price, Gareth Pugh and many more.
He was ahead of his time in using his creativity and work to draw attention to issues that concerned him, crusading tirelessly for diversity, queer inclusivity, antiracism and sustainability, concerns which Trust Judy Blame fully shares commitment towards.
’The Trust is delighted to help these creative young people achieve their educational goals. We aim to not only contribute to preserving Judy’s artistic legacy, but also to follow his lifelong efforts to nurture and mentor young talent.’
Chair of Trustees.
sample works by Andy Situma
“I am humbled and honoured to have been awarded this scholarship” says Andy Situma, who is currently studying for a BArch in Architecture.
“It means a great deal to me as an international student; it has been hard to support my work and myself outside of my tuition fees; hence, the production of my physical work has relied on recyclable and inventive techniques such as the use of cardboard from the street, which is an excellent skill to have but can only take you so far. I am now overjoyed that I can increase the quality of my work and sustain a better quality of life in my day-to-day activities.”
sample works by Hayley Wong Wei Yi
Hayley Wong Hei Yi is in her first year of the BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking. Hayley has made a home in Scotland after recently immigrating from Hong Kong, and as a newcomer has felt very welcomed to Glasgow by her neighbours and the community at the GSA. Her artistic practice is an exploration of the permeable and mystical concept of home and is concerned with the history of memory in the ambiguous project of Hong Kong identity. Hayley says she was ‘so happy and strengthened’ to receive the scholarship from Trust Judy Blame and being selected has been an honour. Hayley was drawn to the Scholarship due to the values it sought to promote by helping marginalised communities, and has used the word ‘caring’ to define the support the Trust has given her.
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