A STUNNING new exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art is set to take visitors back to the years after the Second World War when women designers from the school produced an explosion of colour and pattern.
This year is the centenary of one of the pioneering and most influential 20th- century female textile designers, Lucienne Day, and the exhibition will also feature her work.
But the GSA show is set to introduce designs by three post-war female designers – Dorothy Smith, Sylvia Chalmers and Margaret Stewart – to a whole new generation in an exhibition that also features designs by Lucienne Day.
Taking on-paper designs by Smith, Chalmers and Stewart – all of whom studied or taught at the GSA – from its archives and collections, the school’s Centre for Advanced Textiles has turned them into actual textiles for the first time since they were created 70 years ago.
Brightly coloured and strikingly patterned, the designs reflect a flourishing of new design after wartime austerity. Large wall hangings, cushions and more will be in the exhibition alongside original designs, historic photos and other archival material. The show starts on September 16 at the Reid Building of the GSA on Renfrew Street.
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