Gillian’s QEST funding enabled her to undertake private tuition with bookbinder Tom McEwan to gain the skills of advanced leatherwork, edge decoration and design. She also travelled to Centro Del Bel Libro and Professione Libro. She now works in her studio in Glasgow – Juju Books – where she makes bespoke books and boxes for individuals and institutions, teaches the craft and creates design bindings. She is a QEST Ambassador, past Chair of The Society of Bookbinders, Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders and Princes Trust Ambassador.
Gillian has gone on to become a prize-winning bookbinder, being awarded and collected internationally. Past clients include Idris Elba, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Macallan whisky and Quentin Blake. She teaches regularly to art schools, institutions and in her studio to private groups.
