The Glasgow Girls, a group of women artists and designers studied and worked in Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century. They contributed significantly to the development of the ‘Glasgow Style’, a distinctive branch of the Arts Nouveau movement of the same period. Several of the girls contributed work to Suffragette banners and jewellery.

Fra Newbery, Director of Glasgow School of Art during this period, created an environment in which women could study, teach and develop their talents in both design and painting. The work produced by the principal artists is examined in detail. Exquisite embroidery, jewellery, ceramics and book illustrations were crafted by Jessie Newbery, Frances MacDonald, Ann Macbeth and Jessie Marion King, whilst Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, who devised  beautiful gesso panels and lovely interior decor, is finally being given the recognition she deserves as she emerges from under the shadow of her famous husband, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.