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Eh? Aye! The Artwork of Lorna Miller
Glasgow School of Art
I FIRST met Lorna Miller over a decade ago on a bike ride along the Forth and Clyde Canal. It was the first run of what a bunch of us had hoped to become a new Clarion club. Blethering as we rode, I heard she’d recently returned to Glasgow from Hastings, and did cartoons. I was suitably impressed, but oh my ignorance!
Eh? Aye! The Artwork of Lorna Miller at the Glasgow School of Art is another return — she graduated from there back in 1994 — but the exhibition of her work begins far, far earlier.
We begin at the beginning, with a photograph of a three-year-old Lorna deep in concentration, pencil in hand and clearly lost in the creation taking shape on the paper in front of her. Alongside in the glass case, Funny Book — her first comic — sale price 15p with free Scarlet Red poster (not the banner of socialism on this occasion, one of a group of colour-based characters).
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