WERE he still alive, my grandfather would have been unimpressed by last week's announcement that the Turner Prize for 2015 is to be presented at the old Coplawhill tram depot in Glasgow.
WERE he still alive, my grandfather would have been unimpressed by last week's announcement that the Turner Prize for 2015 is to be presented at the old Coplawhill tram depot in Glasgow.
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Andrew McKie
He began his career as a tram conductor and ended it as director of publicity for the corporation, a role in which he turned out hundreds of posters, timetable covers and other visual material. In those impossibly distant days, those tasks involved such antiquated skills as lettering and being able to draw, the absence of which is no impediment to – indeed, is positively a requirement for – Turner prize success.
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The shame of Glasgow's embracing of the sham
WERE he still alive, my grandfather would have been unimpressed by last week's announcement that the Turner Prize for 2015 is to be presented at the old Coplawhill tram depot in Glasgow.
He began his career as a tram conductor and ended it as director of publicity for the corporation, a role in which he turned out hundreds of posters, timetable covers and other visual material. In those impossibly distant days, those tasks involved such antiquated skills as lettering and being able to draw, the absence of which is no impediment to – indeed, is positively a requirement for – Turner prize success.
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