Mi Fhein is Mackintosh/Art on Fire

Sgoil Ealain Ghlaschu aig Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ’S e sgeulachd dùbhlan pearsanta cruthachail agus gàirdeachais a th’ anns an togalach, a’ crìochnachadh ann an cùis-mhulaid nàiseanta nach gabh a chreidsinn.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, the building is a tale of creative personal challenge and celebration, ending in an extraordinary national tragedy.

Tha Sgoil Ealain Ghlaschu ainmeil an uair a thig e gu ailtireachd a’ bhaile agus tha e a’ ciallachadh an t-uabhas do na h-oileanaich a chaidh ann thairis air linn. Togalach a bh’ air a dhealbhachadh bho chionn ceud bliadhna leis an ailtire cliùiteach, Charles Rennie Mackintosh agus sgeulachd dùbhlan cruthachail pearsanta agus gàirdeachais, a’ crìochnachadh ann an cùis-mhulaid nàiseanta, nach gabh a chreidsinn.

Tha an neach-ealain agus an craoladair Calum Aonghas MacAoidh a’ rannsachadh an ceangal domhainn a th’ aige fhèin, a theaghlach agus oileanaich eile ri togalach ealain Mhic an Tòisich agus am bròn a dh’ fhairich iad an uair a mhill teine an togalach ann an 2014. An dèidh an t-àite ath-thogail gu cùramach, cha ghabhadh a chreidsinn gun deach e na theine airson an dàrna turas, ann an 2018, a cha mhòr chur às de thogalach “Am Mack”.

Bha an neach-ealain Iseabail Mhoireach ann an Glaschu anns a’ Chèitean 2014 an uair a thàinig an naidheachd gu robh an Sgoil Ealain na theine, a’ coiseachd suas gu sràid Rinn Friù, chan fhaigheadh i seachad air seallaidhean de thogalach “Am Mack” air a lasadh. Taobh a-staigh beagan uairean a thìde, chaidh maoin a thòiseachadh a fhuair tabhartasan airgid gus an Sgoil Ealain ath-thogail.

Fhad ’s a bha iad a’ cur crìoch air an obair, air an 15mh den Òg-mhìos 2018, thàinig buille chruaidh eile, an uair a chaidh an Sgoil Ealain na theine a-rithist, mac talla dha na thachair bho chionn ceithir bliadhna. Teine nas milltiche ann an iomadach dòigh agus chan eil càil air atharrachadh bhon uairsin. Fhathast air a’ chòmhdach le fiodh, tha an t-àm ri tighinn fhathast mì-chinnteach do thogalach “Am Mack”.

The Glasgow School of Art is an icon of the city’s architecture and loved by many art students who have entered its doors over a century. Designed over 100 years ago by world renowned Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the building is a tale of creative personal challenge and celebration, but ending in an extraordinary national tragedy.

Artist and broadcaster, Calum Angus Mackay, explores the deep connection he, his family and other students, past and present feel for Mackintosh’s Art School and their devastation when fire ripped through the building in 2014, only to be matched by their horror when, after painstaking rebuilding, a second fire in 2018 all but destroyed ‘The Mack’.

Artist Ishbel Murray was in Glasgow in May 2014 when news started to filter through that the Art School was on fire. Walking up to Renfrew Street, she was shocked and pained at the scenes of ‘The Mack’ ablaze. Within hours a fund had started to attract donations to rebuild the Art School.

In the cruellest of blows, just as work was nearing completion, on the June 15, 2018, news broke of an echo of the horror of four years prior - that the Art School was once again ablaze. In many ways it was a more devastating fire and to date no phoenix has risen from the ashes. Shrouded in scaffolding, the future of ‘The Mack’ is still uncertain today.

In Gaelic with English subtitles