The small portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth which hangs in the newly renovated Scottish National Portrait Gallery has become overly familiar as a trademark for a kitsch brand of Scottishness which is demeaning to the poet’s legacy. It’s with respect to Burns and Nasmyth that I make my modest reworking to mark the 25th of January.
My portrait can be seen along with other pictorial responses to Burns at The McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas, from Saturday, January 28th, 2011.
From galleries in the Central Belt to Castle Douglas and all the way to Suffolk, my work is adorning gallery walls in winter exhibitions. Grab a woolly hat and mittens and skate along to one near you. (Click the links or contact me for more samples and information.)
McGill Duncan Gallery, Castle Douglas
Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
Blytheswood Gallery, 15 Blythswood Square, Glasgow (no website)
In the absence of new content that I’m ready to post, I’ll just insert this slideshow which I’ve had on YouTube for a while.
I was able to give ‘Here’s Looking at Euclid’ its first public airing at the Spring Fling last month, and I was pleased to see that it drew interest from a wide range of viewers. One young chap quietly devoted an hour to sketching all fifteen panels into his sketchbook – a real compliment! His mum kindly scanned me the result…
For anyone who’s clicked on this blog for info about forthcoming shows, sorry to have failed to give forewarning about my showing at the Spring Fling in Dumfries. It came and went at the end of May, and I was so focussed on producing and framing new work that I neglected to promote it. I find it’s not until I have the work properly displayed that I feel like letting anyone know about it, by which time it’s too late!
Anyway, here’s a retrospective taste…
Can the world have too many brooding self portraits?
I’ve always got works and works in progress at home…
“The White Vase”
And, for anyone interested, there’s about 24 pieces of mine currently spread out between two galleries in Glasgow:
Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
19 Parnie Street
0141 552 7779
Open Tue – Sat, 12pm to 5pm
& by arrangement
And at MacGregor Fine Art
Connal Building, 5th Floor, 34 West George Street
0141 332 5551
Open Tue-Sat,10am – 5.30pm
(Iain MacGregor has my work in stock, and will hang it in March.)
Just a smattering of recent work from the end of last year… No sign of the impending geometry fever!
“The Rest is Noise”
Off to a busy start this month producing 16 new works… (even if 15 of them together really only count as one.)
“Here’s Looking at Euclid”
