BILLCLIFFE GALLERY - Key Persons
Michael Corsar trained as a painter at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, graduating in 1996.
He joined the Roger Billcliffe team in 1998 and became a Director in 2005.
In addition to working in the gallery full-time Michael is also a successful practising artist exhibiting throughout the UK and America.
Roger Billcliffe opened his Gallery in Glasgow in 1992 acquiring his premises from The Fine Art Society where he had been a Director since 1979, responsible for the Society's two Scottish Galleries in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Prior to that he was in charge of the Art Collections at the University of Glasgow, from 1969-77 and was also Keeper of Fine Art at Glasgow Art Gallery from 1977-79.
Roger Billcliffe has published widely on Scottish Art of the last hundred years. His books include the standard work on the Glasgow Boys (Frances Lincoln, 2008), The Scottish Colourists (John Murray, London, 1989) and several works on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the architecture and decorative arts of Glasgow at the turn of the century. These include Charles Rennie Mackintosh: the Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs (Cameron & Hollis, 4th edition, 2010); Mackintosh Watercolours (John Murray, London 1978); Mackintosh Textile Designs (Pomegranate, San Francisco 1992) and Mackintosh Furniture (Cameron and Hollis, Moffat 1990). His latest book, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four (Frances Lincoln, 2017) is a comprehensive account of the lives and work of these world-renowned Glasgow artists.