Alumni
“Don’t call Glasgow’s contemporary art scene a miracle… Glasgow's success is hard won, durable and above all consistent.”
Image: Chromatic Solstice #16, Sebastian Mary Tay,
MRes Creative Practices 2016
The School of Fine Art has produced eight Turner Prize winners overall, and a further ten nominees. Five winners have been graduates of the GSA's celebrated Master of Fine Art programme. In 2015, the Turner Prize was held in Glasgow for the first time, recognising the city's ongoing significance in the contemporary art world. In 2021 Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell (Sculpture & Environmental Art 2010) and Thomas Wells (Sculpture & Environmental Art 2009), received the prize as part of Array Collective. Other alumni include:
Jenny Saville
Toby Paterson
Charlotte Prodger
Corin Sworn
Douglas Gordon
Victoria Morton
Nathan Coley
Alison Watt
Joan Eardley
Alberta Whittle
Hardeep Phandal
Graham Fagen
Richard Wright
Film: Alison Watt
Film: Graham Fagen
Film: Alberta Whittle
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