A history of stained glass art at Brisbane Girls Grammar Sch

The window over the north entrance to Main building shows Principals and Chairs of the Board of

Trustees who have given their names to the Houses. (Missing is Annie Mackay as Mackay House was

only formed in the late 1990s).

These windows were also designed and crafted by Tony Vaughan and Jude Wixon.

Following a visit to Presbyterian Ladies College in Perth in early 1996, the then Principal Judith

Hancock was taken by the stained-glass window newly installed in the renovated chapel of the

school. She understood the importance of leaving a legacy of art within the school and contributing

to the aesthetics of the school for students to see and appreciate art on their campus. Previously Dr

Hancock had initiated a ceramics collection which endures today in the display cabinet outside the

office of Principal Ms Jacinda Euler.

Inspired to develop a stained-glass window that would depict the vitality and creativity of young

women and their striving, Dr Hancock consulted with one of the teachers of art in the school, Ms

Jennifer Andrews, also an alumna, to design the window, then to be crafted by well-known stained

glass window artist, Mr Warwick Blair.