Gary’s talk about Sighthill will be an overview of the history of the cemetery, illustrating its great beauty and sculptural treasures, as well as highlighting the stories of some of the well-known and little-known people buried there.
Gary Nisbet was born in Glasgow in 1960 and has been a freelance researcher and photographer specialising in documenting Glasgow’s historic architecture and sculpture for over forty years. He contributed to the books Sculpture in Glasgow and Public Sculpture of Glasgow, as well as number of publications and restoration projects in the city. He is the author of the Glasgow – City of Sculpture website (www.glasgowsculpture.com), and is currently working on surveys of sculpture in the Glasgow Necropolis and the little-documented Sighthill Cemetery.