The 1979 exhibition on St. John Ogilvie was the first in a
series of documentary exhibitions and related publications produced by the
Third Eye Centre on famous men and women in Glasgow’s history. The exhibition concentrated on the life and
times of the Scottish Saint and included reproduction documents, maps, models
and portraits of key figures that featured in his life and subsequent
canonisation in 1976.
The exhibition involved contributions from local
institutions including Aloysius College, The Mitchell Library and the Scottish
Catholic Archives and produced an ambitious publication which included the
first bibliography on Ogilvie.
The archive material reveals that this exhibition was
prepared and treated in the same way as any visual arts exhibition or event at
the Third Eye Centre, and the breadth of participants communicated to in the files
of correspondence highlight the curatorial vision of the Centre to engage with
and educate social communities beyond visual art.
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| Image from Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner Vol. XCV No. 3092 |
The CCA now has an official Education and Outreach programme
which takes an alternative approach to
working with people in Glasgow with initiatives such as ‘This Land is Your Land’. Other Third Eye Centre files recently cataloged document the preparation of a similar
gardening and allotment project called
‘Dear Green Place’ as well as
‘Garnethill Exhibition’ and ‘Modernisation by Inches’ which
observed and discussed Glasgow’s urban planning and communities. All early evidence of green shoots for the Third Eye Centre and CCA’s spirit for
community investment and engagement.
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