Episodes
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Summer Sails: The Poem Prints of Ian Hamilton Finlay
The Hunterian Art Gallery has within its archives a collection of screenprints by the Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Dating predominantly from the mid-1960s, the prints reveal a poet in transition as he explores new poetic possibilities in the intermingling of word and image. This...
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Japanese culture in Scotland, 1880 – 1914
By outlining the fusion of Scottish and Japanese cultures at the end of the 19th century, this video offers new understandings of, and triggers enthusiasm for, these artworks and designs. Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher Michael Shaw demonstrates that Celtic cultures and Japanese cultures...
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Improvement and Scotland
Improvement and Scotland is an online exhibition focussing on the Hunterian's holdings of 18th and early-19th century Scottish art. Linking this material with literary texts of the same period, Hunterian Associate and Glasgow PhD researcher Gerard McKeever narrates the challenges set to Scottish...
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Hunterian Associate Sound and Visual Installation: "Hagar and the Angel"
Find out more: http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/learning/hunterianassociates/index.html?refer=itunes Hagar and the Angel is a creative response to The Hunterian's exhibition of the same title…
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Castrato Singers: Their vocal Legacy
Castrato singers: their vocal legacy is project which combines the exploration the song books contained within the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/index.html?refer=itunes) written by the lost castrato singers of the 18th and 19th...
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William Hunter's Book Collection
This video shows one of the talks given at the first Hunterian Associate Open Evening, October 2012. Hunterian Associate and PhD researcher, Francesca MacKay explains how her interest in Hunter’s vast and varied book and manuscript collection (held by University of Glasgow’s Special Collections,...