Sue MacKechnie

Experiencing the facilities and social aspect of the Print Studio as a new arrival to Glasgow

Clip Title	Experiencing the facilities and social aspect of the Print Studio as a new arrival to Glasgow
Interviewee Name	Sue MacKechnie
Interviewee Role	Workshop member since 1980, when she moved to Glasgow with husband John to work at the Print Studio.
Interviewer Name	Kerry Patterson
Interview Date	9 October 2018
Clip Length	1 minutes 43 seconds

Transcription

SM: Well I thought it was amazing to have all - all that equipment available to use. And the membership was very cheap, it was affordable, erm things were very relaxed, a bit too relaxed. I mean, Health and Safety hadn’t been invented back then [laughs]. It was ridiculous really, people were smoking around solvents and things, you know, it was just like, and the food, I think there might have been a microwave but it was always dirty. Nothing was - it was just like, not very well cared for, yep. But it worked. People got a lot of work done, there.

KP: So was it the first time after art school that you’d, kind of, been in a print workshop or had you worked somewhere else before?

SM: It’s, it’s when I started to, erm - yeah it was the first time really. I’d done a little bit of print - printing, etching, at art school in Brighton but I was a painter basically, painting and drawing was my thing. The other thing that I liked about the Print Studio was the social aspect of it. Because moving to Glasgow, I didn’t have any friends or family here, so it was a way of meeting people, and learning things, rubbing shoulders with people. I thought it was excellent [laughs].