Roger Billcliffe
Wednesday 13th March 2019
Harvest Moon
Synopsis
The Glasgow Style was the creation, during the 1890s, of The Four – the Macdonald sisters, Herbert MacNair and Mackintosh – although the term is also applied to the more decorative work made in Glasgow after 1900 by artists such as Jessie King and E.A. Taylor. The work of The Four is more original, more visceral, more creative, extending the imagery found in their early paintings, of 1892-95, to the applied arts, encompassing metalwork, gesso, posters and mural decoration.
Lecturer’s CV
Roger Billcliffe was schooled in Sheffield, and then attended the Courtauld Institute at Somerset House in London as a student in the History of Art, for 3 years. After further training in The Walker Gallery in Liverpool, he came to Glasgow, initially as Assistant Keeper of the University Art Collection, then as Keeper of Fine Art at Glasgow Art Gallery. He became Director of The Fine Art Society in Scotland. He now runs his own Gallery, The Roger Billcliffe Gallery, in Blythswood St in Glasgow.
He is author of several books, each very distinguished in their subjects: ‘The Glasgow Boys’, ‘The Scottish Colourists’, ‘Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete FurnIture, Furniture Drawings, and Interior Design’, and most recently ‘Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four’.
He is widely sought after as a lecturer and art critic.