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“It’s gallus: mouthy, not willing to be
looked down on, pushy, fun.”
looked down on, pushy, fun.”
Damien
Smith, ISO
Smith, ISO
“There’s a wildness, an unexpectedness and
unpredictability in the city.”
unpredictability in the city.”
Thomas
Joshua Cooper
Joshua Cooper
“The ambition of the city blew me away.”
David
Grevemberg, CEO Glasgow 2014
Grevemberg, CEO Glasgow 2014
Leading artists,
designers, architects and members of the city’s cultural community share their
experience of Glasgow in a new film released today by the Glasgow School of
Art. Created by GSA alumni Cara Connolly
and Martin Clark, of Connolly Clark Films, the film features interviews with director
of My name is Jo Paul Laverty; Tobias Zech
of the Beatson Institute; architect/writer, Ed Hollis; Turner Prize winner, Martin Boyce; artist/writer Rhona
Warwick, Creative Director of NVA, Angus
Farquhar; designers Janice Kirkpatrick
(Graven Images) and Damien Smith
(ISO); Gavin Reid, Director of the
BBCSSO; Jonty Claypole, Head of
Arts, BBC; Hannah McGill, writer and
former Director of the EIFF; Paul Tyres,
Deputy Artistic Director of Scottish
Ballet; David Grevemberg, CEO
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and artist / founder of FA photography at the
GSA, Thomas Joshua Cooper.
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Further information: press@gsa.ac.uk