Glasgow Museums Podcast

Sep 07 2024 25 ep. 29 mins 69
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Welcome to the Glasgow Museums Podcast. Each episode will offer a behind the scenes look at Glasgow Museums. Expect discussions about exhibitions as well as musings and insights from community partners and artists. Our museums https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums You can also find us on Spotify and Apple. 2024 Update - Glasgow Museums has a new podcast - find out all about our new show and how to listen at: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/curious-city Intro Music: Arid Foothills Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Banner image: Detail from The Floating Heads, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum © Sophy Cave Designs

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Eilidh Shaw shares some of Angus MacPhee's story

Sep 07 2024
These clips from the playlist, Art extraordinary, are part of a project Glasgow Museums worked on with families from the island of South Uist relating to the artwork of Flora Johnstone and Angus MacPhee.

Catriona MacIntyre talks more about Angus MacPhee and his art in Gaelic

Sep 07 2024 2 mins  
These clips from the playlist, Art extraordinary, are part of a project Glasgow Museums worked on with families from the island of South Uist relating to the artwork of Flora Johnstone and Angus MacPhee.

Background on Flora Johnstone's love and use of shells

Sep 07 2024
Hear from Flora Johnstone's daughter, Margaret Gray. The audio clip is in both English and Gaelic. These clips are part of a project Glasgow Museums worked on with families from the island of South Uist relating to the artwork of Flora Johnstone and Angus MacPhee.

Flora Johnstone's Shell Bus

Sep 02 2024
Origin of Flora Johnstone's shell bus described by her daughter, Margaret Gray. These clips are part of a project Glasgow Museums worked on with families from the island of South Uist relating to the artwork of Flora Johnstone and Angus MacPhee.

Season 4 Episode 4: Mary Quant - Fashion Revolutionary

Jul 12 2023 36 mins  
Join Glasgow Museums Curator of Dress, Rebecca Quinton in conversation with the Curator of the Mary Quant exhibition, Jenny Lister from the V&A together with the former Co-Director of Mary Quant Limited, Heather Tilbury Phillips as we discover more about one of the UK's most successful and innovative fashion designers. 05:00 – 03:00 Introductions and the background behind the ex

Season 4 Episode 3: Lascar Research Project

May 19 2023 46 mins  
Join Social History Curator, Isobel McDonald in conversation Bangladeshi Association president, Dr Tareq Abdullah and Trustee of the Bangladeshi Association Dr. Saif Khan as they tell us about their wonderful collaborative project researching the story of the Lascars, seafarers who were employed by British Merchant ships during the colonial period. Timecodes: 00:00 - 05:00 Introd

Season 4 Episode 2: Young Peoples Art Competition

Apr 28 2023 24 mins  
Join us in this episode as we celebrate the Young Peoples Art Competition, which has been running at Glasgow Museums for a staggering 119 years! In this episode hear Glasgow Museums Curator of Decorative Arts & Design from 1800, Alison Brown in conversation with Carolyn Foran, Glasgow Museums Education Officer and Anne Wallace, retired Education Officer on what makes the competiti

Season 4 Episode 1: Creative Writing With Art

Oct 26 2022 17 mins  
The new season of the Glasgow Museums podcast opens with a look back at the summer and the John Byrne Exhibition at Kelvingrove Museum. Join our learning and access team as they get inspired and creative with creative writing in both English and Gaelic! 00:00 - 04:00 - The background story of Scottish playwright and artist, John Byrne, a short introduction from William Doherty,

Season 3 Episode 7: GoMA at 25 with Tessa Lynch and Rhona Warwick

Jun 23 2022 50 mins  
This episode is edited from a live conversation in GoMA’s exhibition – Domestic Bliss. Katie Bruce, Producer|Curator at GoMA is with Rhona Warwick Paterson an artist and writer based in Glasgow, who has just finished her tenure as GoMA’s Associate Artist, and Tessa Lynch, an artist based in Glasgow and Rhona’s collaborator on the book – MADE ON THE TABLE. They also coll

Season 3 Episode 6: GoMA at 25 with Sorcha Dallas Gray and Rhona Warwick

Jun 16 2022 58 mins  
This podcast episode with Sorcha Dallas Gray custodian of the Alasdair Gray Archive and Rhona Warwick Paterson, an artist|writer based in Glasgow, and GoMA's associate artist (2019 -2022) was recorded in the Alasdair Gray Archive. A focus for the conversation was the ‘Domestic Bliss’ exhibition currently on in GoMA and featuring works from Alasdair’s City Recorder series,