Details
| First Name | Alasdair |
| Last Name | Wallace |
| Username | alasdairwallace |
| Website | |
| Region | Greater Glasgow |
| Disciplines | Painting, Photography, Printmaking |
| Themes | Figurative, Landscape, Site-specific, Environment |
Statement
| Statement | Alasdair Wallace‘s art is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday. His richly worked and allusively plotted paintings present a world that is at once recognisable and unsettling. It is a world full of odd juxtapositions and unexplained presences. Wallace lives and works in Glasgow, and the city’s ‘edgelands’ provide a recurring motif for his work. He finds a rich space for his artistic imagination in the unfixed margin between the modern city and the countryside that surrounds it. From it he has distilled a unique vision, one touched with humour, mystery and a subtle sense of pathos. Alasdair Wallace was born in Glasgow 1967 and studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1987 to 1991. On graduation he travelled to Italy with the John Kinross Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy. He has received numerous other awards since then including the William Littlejohn Award and the Guthrie Medal from the RSA, The Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award and the Walter Scott Award from the RSW, The Armour Award and The City Of Glasgow College Award from the RGI. He won The Noble Grossart Painting Prize in 2001and in 2018 he received the W Gordon Smith And Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award at the annual exhibition of the Society Of Scottish Artists in Edinburgh. |
Biography
| Biography | Alasdair Wallace Born Glasgow 1967 1987 – 1991 Glasgow School of Art, BA Hons Fine Art SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Settlements – Linlithgow Burgh Halls 2019 Oscillate Vacillate Orbit & Revolve – Glasgow Print Studio 2018 Incidences – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2016 Ache The Good Ache – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2015 Two Hundred And Thirty Volts – Glasgow Print Studio 2014 Rare Vagrants And Accidentals – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, NYC 2014 Talking Tree – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2010 New and recent work – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2008 Soluble City – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Society Of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh 2019 Orbiteering – Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay 2018 Littlejohn Award Exhibit – Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2017 ‘Lowlands’ – Glasgow Print Studio 2017 INK. Curated by AHM, Glasgow Print Studio 2015 The Art Of Scotland’s Political Reawakening – North Kelvin College 2011 The Ghosts Of Gone Birds – Rochelle School, London 2010 ‘The River Runs Through It’ – Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow 2009 ‘Inspired’ – Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Gallery, London AWARDS John Gray Award – RSW Edinburgh 2018 W Gordon Smith Award – SSA Edinburgh 2018 William Littlejohn Award – Royal Scottish Academy 2017 City Of Glasgow College Award – RGI Glasgow 2016 The Walter Scott Award – RSW Edinburgh 2015 Armour Award – Royal Glasgow Institute 2005 Noble Grossart Painting Prize 2001 Guthrie Medal, Royal Scottish Academy 1999 COLLECTIONS City Of Glasgow College, Walter Scott And Partners, Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, Cromarty Arts Trust, The Royal Scottish Academy, North Lanarkshire Council, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust |