Carol McNicoll: Difference between revisions

McNicoll was born in [[Birmingham]] in 1943], and brought up in [[Solihull]], [[Warwickshire]] (now [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]]). She attended a foundation course at Solihull College of Technology<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bmagic.org.uk/people/Carol+McNicoll |title=Biography &ndash; Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Information Centre |first= |last= |work=bmagic.org.uk |year=2014 |quote=attended a foundation course at Solihull College of Technology (1966&ndash;67) |accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> and then studied fine art at [[Leeds Polytechnic]] from 1967 to 1970. In 1968 she made a film with three other students titled ''Musical'' which collaged and parodied existing musicals; the comedian [[Roy Hudd]] was invited to open the premiere.<ref name="Roxy Music and Art-Rock Glamour">{{cite book | title=Roxy Music and Art-Rock Glamour: Faber Forty-Fives: 1969&ndash;1972 | publisher=Faber and Faber | author=Bracewell Michael | year=2011}}</ref> McNicoll was awarded a Princess of Wales Scholarship to attend [[Royal College of Art]] from 1970 to 1973,<ref name="Studio Pottery">{{cite book | title=Studio Pottery | publisher=Phaidon | author=Watson Oliver | year=1993 | pages=220 | isbn=071482948X}}</ref> where she felt women were "marginalised" and "attention went to the men who were interested in industrial ceramics".<ref name="Women and Ceramics">{{cite book | title=Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels Vincentelli | publisher=Manchester University Press | author=Vincentelli Moira | year=2000 | isbn=978-0719038402 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/womenceramics00moir }}</ref>

McNicoll worked as a wardrobe assistant at theatres in Birmingham and London in the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/craft/art25361 |title=Top Of The Pots &ndash; Carol McNicoll Takes Over Hove Museum |first=Kristen |last=Bailey |work=culture24.org.uk |year=2014 |quote=McNicoll worked as a wardrobe assistant. |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> In 1970 she designed costumes for [[Brian Eno]] of [[Roxy Music]] who was then her boyfriend.<ref name="Performing Glam Rock">{{cite book | title=Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music | publisher=University of Michigan Press | author=Auslander Philip | year=2006 | pages=196}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.paulgormanis.com/?tag=carol-mcnicholl |title=Carol McNicoll |first= |last= |work=paulgormanis.com |year=2014 |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> Her black cockerel feathered boa collar achieved an iconic status in the fledgling [[glamrock]] period.<ref name="Roxy Music and Art-Rock Glamour" /> McNicoll supervised the design of the cover for Eno's ''[[Here Come the Warm Jets]]'' album with one of her teapot designs being featured on the sleeve cover.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.printmag.com/article/the-album-covers-of-brian-eno/ |title=The Album Covers of Brian Eno |first= |last= |work=printmag.com |year=2014 |accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> She also worked as a machinist for the fashion designer [[Zandra Rhodes]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bmagic.org.uk/people/Carol+McNicoll |title=Biography |publisher=Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Information Centre |first= |last= |work=bmagic.org.uk |year=2014 |quote=worked as a machinist for the fashion designer Zandra Rhodes |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> who in 1972 commissioned her to make a unique dinner set,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.zandrarhodes.ucreative.ac.uk/2013/02/the-button-flower-print.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130330172650/http://www.zandrarhodes.ucreative.ac.uk/2013/02/the-button-flower-print.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 30 March 2013 |title=Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection: The Button Flower print |first= |last= |work=zandrarhodes.ucreative.ac.uk |year=2014 |accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> consisting of pink coffee cups with hands for saucers.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://midcenturymagazine.com/beautiful-objects/midcentury-meets-zandra-rhodes/ |title=Zandra Rhodes: The Fashion Designer talks to MidCentury|first= |last= |work=midcenturymagazine.com |year=2014 |quote=pink coffee cups with hands for saucers |accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref>

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