Getting Started

In these clips, Print Studio founder members and artist members discuss the early days of the organisation: how it began, its aims and the experience of using the workshop.

Image: Print Studio founding members (L-R) John Faulds, Eileen Ormiston and Bill Blacker with fellow student Leonard Gray in the Glasgow School of Art Printmaking Department c.1971 or 1972. (Photograph courtesy of, and © of Bob Murray)

Listen:

Sheena McGregor - Setting up at St Vincent Crescent and getting the premises ready

Jacki Parry - Setting aims, choosing a name and taking advice

Elspeth Lamb - Beth and Sheena as Co-Directors of the St Vincent Crescent workshop

Sheena McGregor - Challenges of working as a co-operative and Beth Fisher’s role

Jimmy Cosgrove - The importance of Sheena McGregor in directing the organization

John Mackechnie - Getting involved with the Print Studio
Image: John Taylor with John Mackechnie and Clive Sutton, around 1977. (Photo © Glasgow Print Studio, ref. GLAPS.2012.55)
Image: Lithography area of Ingram Street, 1981. (Photo © Glasgow Print Studio, ref. GLAPS.2012.161)