- Sculpture Environmental Art graduate receives the GSA’s highest award
- Honorary Doctorates conferred on Andrew Whalley, recently appointed Chairman of Grimshaw Architects, and Sarah Drummond, Co-Founder and Managing Director of award-winning design agency, Snook
- Over 40 prizes awarded to graduating students including the Newbery Medal and four Chairman’s Medals
Kate Lingard, a Sculpture and Environmental Art graduate, has been awarded the 2019 Newbery Medal. The award, named after the celebrated director of The Glasgow School of Art Francis “Fra” Newbery is presented each year to the top student graduating from an undergraduate programme.
“Also on the first floor is Kate Lingard,whose space is filled with casts created from structures of the inner ear as well as recreated videos of what looks like empty hallways. The accompanying text perfectly illustrates the work without over-explaining it; it is a highly successful work in itself. The text is often the most ridiculed part of a degree show, but this shows a strong proficiency in its union of clear intellect and unashamed emotion.”
From The Skinny, review of 2019 Degree Show
“Kate Lingard is a worthy winner of the 2019 Newbery medal.”Says Professor Alistair Payne, Head of the School of Fine Art. “Through her collaborative working with other disciplinary fields she has created a truly cross-disciplinary practice. She has also demonstrated excellence in her theoretical and philosophical research and writing undertaken to achieve this work.”
Kate collaborated with many different external institutions including medical and microbiological laboratories across Scotland and had a close working relationship with the medical visualisation department in the School of Simulation and Visualisation at Glasgow School of Art, and produced an inspirational exhibition for her final degree show.
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| Dr Andrew Whalley |
The award was presented at the morning Graduation ceremony which also saw recently appointed Chairman of Grimshaw Architects, Andrew Whalley, receive an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.
“I look back at my time at the Glasgow School of Art with much fondness, a place where I made lifelong friendships, and also reverence, when I think of the teaching and opportunities we were given,”says Andrew Whalley. “Probably the most important aspect was being surrounded by so many talented individuals across the whole spectrum of the Arts.”
I have had the opportunity to work in many places around the world and have learned from first-hand experience that The Glasgow School of Art’s reputation is second to none, and its reach is truly global. My experience at the Mac undoubtedly shaped me as a designer and my career as an Architect. “
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| Dr Sarah Drummond |
At the afternoon ceremony Sarah Drummond, founder of the award-winning Design Agency We are Snook was also presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.
“I’m honoured and totally surprised to be receiving the honorary doctorate from The Glasgow School of Art,” says Sarah Drummond. “I feel indebted for the education I had at Glasgow, a unique space that taught me the skills to think through making and explore alternative visions for the world we might live in. I’ve dedicated my working life to educating and building the capacity of Governments, councils, charities and the civic sector to use design to make the world more human, placing design in the hands of the public to reimagine how our institutions can work for us, leaving no one behind. The GSA will always hold a special space in my heart. Like many of the students who pass through its doors I’m part of its extended global community and the experiences I had and the lessons I learned are at the core of my practice today.”
Over 40 awards were presented to graduating students including the Newbery, four Chairman’s medals and a newly introduced John Calcutt prize for Critical Writing.The winners of the Chairman’s Medals were: Rebecca Gill (Painting and Printmaking), Lucy Kerr (Interior Design), who also won the Stakis Prize for Interior Design, Gaston Welisch (Product Design) and Suraj Makwana (Diploma in Architecture).
Among the prize winners from the Mackintosh School of Architecture were Stage 4 students Ella Walklate and Joshua Page for their speculative proposals for housing in Tradeston and an Urban Building on the Broomielaw. The 2019 Bourdon Prize went to Eugenio Cappuccio.
In the School of Design the Incorporation of Hammermen prizes went to Harriet Jenkins and Shan He; Christine Wong was awarded the Incorporation of Bonnetmakers prize; Shannon Graham and Rosa Munro won Incorporation of Weavers awards, and the Incorporation of Tailors awards went to Sam Wood and Florence Hughes-Finney. This year’s The Kerry Aylin Prize for Distinction in Print was won by Claire McNally.
In the Innovation School Tori Hamilton was awarded the Collaborative Practice award for her project to develop tourism in Oban which was co-designed with the community Erlend Prendergast who won the Innovation Design prize for his work on Precision Medicine in Cancer Care and counter bug to help counteract fears for the “spy in the house”
In the School of Fine Art the inaugural John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing was won by Painting and Printmaking graduate Harriet Abbott.
The 2019 GSA Sustainability awards were won by Cassandra Macindoe, (Fashion) and Emma Hislop (Sculpture and Environmental Art), and the 2019 Bram Stoker Award went to Ashley Morgan (Communication Design) for a project looking at the former Third Lanark Football club.
For full list of awards see Notes for Editors.
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Notes for Editors
HONORARY DOCTORATES
Andrew Whalley, Chairman Grimshaw Architects
Sarah Drummond, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Snook
NEWBERY MEDAL (top graduating student)
Kate Lingard, Sculpture and Environmental Art
CHAIRMAN’S MEDALS
Rebecca Gill (Painting and Printmaking),
Lucy Kerr (Interior Design)
Gaston Welisch (Product Design)
Suraj Makwana (Diploma in Architecture)
OPEN AWARDS
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W.O. Hutcheson Prize
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Sophie Rowan, Com Des
Kirsten Shanks, P&P
Marco Zaccaria, Arch
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Landscape Drawing Prize
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Johanne Deffarges, Com Des
Atticus Tayar, P&P
Veronika Desova, Arch
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GSA Prize for Sustainability
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Winners: Cassandra Macindoe, Fashion and Emma Hislop, SEA
Runner-up: Esme Macintyre, Com Des
Highly Commended: Veronika Desova, Arch and Marcelo
Curto, PD
Commended: Christina Wong, Textiles and Hannah
Dawood, Arch |
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Dissertation Prize
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Karin
Tokunaga, Textiles
Harriet
Abbott, P&P |
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Essay Prize
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Eleanor
Whitworth, S&J
Siri
Black, P&P |
MACKINTOSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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Joe Park Award
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Part 1 – James Opfer, Craig Stephens
Part 2 – Antonia Kati
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Bourdon Prize
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Eugenio Cappuccio
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MSA Stage 4 BArch(Hons) Portfolio Prize
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Ella Walklate
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MSA Stage 4 Diploma Portfolio Prize
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Joshua Page
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MSA Research Project Prize
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Hannah Heaton, Hons
Samuel Stair, Dip
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The Lynn Scobie Memorial Prize for Architecture
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Alice
Miller
Zoe
Grainge
Alessandro
Marini |
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Silversmithing and Jewellery
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Richard H Arroll Memorial Prize
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William Sharp
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Incorporation of Hammermen
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Harriet Jenkins
Shan He
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The Peter Wylie Davidson Memorial Prize
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Eleanor Whitworth
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Fashion and Textiles
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Incorporation of Bonnetmakers
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Christina Wong
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Incorporation of Weavers
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Shannon Graham
Rosa Munro
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Incorporation of Tailors
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Sam Wood
Florence Hughes-Finney
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Bill Naysmith Innovation Award
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Sarah-Jane Henderson
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Incorporation of Skinners & Glovers Prize
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Barbara Carroll
Surnai Howard Hildige
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Interior Design
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James Brough Memorial Prize
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Jan Wright
Katherine Walker
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Stakis Prize
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Lucy Kerr
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Communication Design
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The Avril V Gibb Memorial Prize
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Arvinda Gray
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The Kerry Aylin Prize for Distinction in Print
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Claire McNally
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INNOVATION SCHOOL
Product Design
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Neil Morris Prize
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Nella Piatek
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Innovation Design Prize
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Erlend Prendergast
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Innovation Design Research Prize
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Monika Kantor
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Innovation Design Collaborative Practice Prize
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Victoria Hamilton
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SCHOOL OF FINE ART
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Steven Campbell Hunt Medal
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Tess Wood
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The
James Nicol McBroom Memorial Prize for Fine Art |
Atticus Tayar
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John
Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing |
Harriet Abbott, P&P
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Critical
Theory Prize |
Colm Guo-Lin Peare, P&P
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Painting
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Emmy Sachs Prize
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Sean Ellcombe
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Armour Prize
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Matthew Manao
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Armour Travel Prize
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Daniel Webster
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Printmaking
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Philip Reeves Prize
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Florence Eckersley
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Glasgow Print Studio
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Adam Smith
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Euan Stewart Memorial Prize
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Adam Smith
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Jon McFarland Prize for Printmaking
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Connor Ross
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Sculpture
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Benno Schotz Prize
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Lorna Campbell
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Fine Art Photography
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The Alice Duncan Prize
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Lucija Jelenko
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Environmental Art
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The David Harding Public Art Project Prize
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Issy Arnold
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