Dr Ailsa Boyd

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Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst

A dark room with blue and red stained glass stars in the vaulted ceiling, coloured Minton tiles on the floor and three arches on the back wall. In front are three wooden reclining benches and a water fountain.
On the left an old map with Queens Park in the centre, on the right a house at night overlaid with newspaper headlines Strange Affray at Crosshill and Crimes and Charges.
Maud Sulter - You are my kindred spirit at Tramway. Exhibition poster is a photograph of a woman with black hair looking at the camera wearing a black top and a long necklace of beads.
Two steps up to a doorway of a Victorian building. No. 499 is in large yellow numbers, above an ornamented white stone arch held up by two huge pink granite pillars.