Showing Now

Alan Michael: Mood:Casual

Tate Britain, London
2nd May–20th June 2008

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Alex Pollard: Young Scots

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1st May–1st July 2008

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Wilkommen to reality!

Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
26th April–30th May 2008

With: Raphael Danke, Alex Frost

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Craig Mulholland: Grandes et Petites Machines

Spike Island, Bristol
12th April–25th May 2008

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Alex Pollard: XS: Recent Small Scale Painting

The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
28th March–24th August 2008

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Alex Frost: Scala Paradisi

Schurmann Berlin, Berlin
13th March–18th May 2008

Coming Soon

Alan Michael: Alan Michael / Steve Sutcliffe

Hotel, London
22nd May–20th June 2008

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Alan Michael: Legend

Domain de Chamarande, nr Paris
25th May–28th September 2008

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Henry Coombes

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
June–September 2008

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Rob Churm: Harry Smith Anthology Remixed

Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
21st June–26th July 2008

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Henry Coombes: Cabinet of Curiosities

Museo Civico di Rovereto, Trentino
8th July–8th September 2008

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For more see PROGRAMME

Now Showing

Alasdair Gray

Now and Then

12th Apr–17th May

This Exhibition

Alasdair Gray

Forthcoming

Michael Stumpf

Glöckchen Whiplash

31st May–5th Jul

Title (Where the Night Goes), 2003

Title (Where the Night Goes), 2003

Installation view, Alasdair Gray: Now and Then, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, 2008

Installation view, Alasdair Gray: Now and Then, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, 2008

Gray was born in Glasgow in 1934 and studied Design and Mural Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1952-57. Since then he has exhibited widely across Scotland, particularly in his home city of Glasgow, where he has also undertaken several mural commissions for many of the city’s churches. He is also a prolific writer, with 18 published books to his name, and a winner of the Whitbread and Guardian book prizes. His most recent book ‘Old Men in Love’, was published in 2007.

Alasdair Gray – ‘Now and Then’

A Glasgow International Commission

Throughout his career, Alasdair Gray’s work in art and literature have had interwoven paths, overlapping in form and content. In his books, word and image are juxtaposed and combined to form epic narratives that have been compared to the work of fellow artist-writers, such as William Blake. Gray’s unique vision in art and literature convincingly blend the mundane and exotic to fantastic effect.

‘Now and Then’ is Alasdair Gray’s first solo exhibition at Sorcha Dallas and will bring together a series of previously unseen works from 1972. In 1971 Malcolm Hossick, of BBC Scotland, planned a short film (‘Now and Then’) focusing on one woman’s memories of a doomed love affair. The film was to be shot in one room of a typical west end tenement, with Gray’s images forming the flashback sequences of the central female character. Liz Lochhead was commissioned to produce s series of new poems to be narrated over Gray’s images. Compositionally the images Gray produced are some of his most ambitious and complex to date and exhibit his unique and distinctive style.

Unfortunately the film was never completed, however this exhibition will exhibit all works from the series, as well as producing a catalogue combining Gray’s images with Lochead’s texts. Lochead’s poems will be available as a text accompaniment to the show and there will be a catalogue produced at the end of the exhibition combining Lochead’s words and Gray’s images.

Alasdair Gray was born in Glasgow in 1934. He has worked as a teacher, painter, illustrator, playwright, scene painter, essayist, poet, novelist and muralist (the latest being the monumental decoration of Glasgow’s Oran Mor). In Autumn 2008 ‘A Life In Pictures’, a visual biography of Gray’s life and work will be published by Canongate. He lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by Sorcha Dallas.

Private View, Saturday 12th April 2008, 7-9pm Until 17th May 2008