What you see is where you’re at: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 50th Anniversary Displays, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (22/10/2010–03/02/2011)
A room will be devoted to Gray at SNGMA to coincide with the exhibiton an book launch at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Displaying work from the collections of National Libraries of Scotland in Edinburgh, Sorcha Dallas in Glasgow and Alasdair Gray’s own private collection, this is an incisive range of work touching many areas of Gray’s extensive practice, which can be traced back throughout his life. Gray originally trained as a visual artist at Glasgow School of Art, from 1952 to 1957, and has habitually worked with both pictures and text. Receiving great critical acclaim for his novel Lanark (1981), Gray became better known as a writer than an artist despite designing and illustrating all of his own works and never stopping his visual practice. In recent years Gray’s visual work has begun to receive the international recognition it deserves: his work is to be included in British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, which is open, in Nottingham, from the 23rd October. Gray lives and works in Glasgow.