Landmarks: An exhibition of work by Alexander Moffat, Ruth Nicol & Alan Riach
Landmarks: An exhibition of work by Alexander Moffat, Ruth Nicol & Alan Riach
ARC Public
Date: Thursday 07 November 2024 - Saturday 16 November 2024
Time: 08:30 - 19:30
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW
Category: Exhibitions
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1001232883507?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Landmarks exhibition has been shown in various different iterations at galleries in Milngavie, Montrose, Linlithgow, Langholm and Biggar and there will be a larger show in Hawick in 2025.
Alexander Moffat is one of Scotland’s most significant modern artists and teachers, and a lifelong advocate of the arts. Former Head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art, his works are held at the National Galleries of Scotland, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy. His iconic group-portrait ‘Poets’ Pub’ (1982) is held in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Its complementary epic group portrait ‘Scotland’s Voices’ (2017) depicts the singers and musicians of the oral tradition.
Ruth Nicol is an artist whose work has been exhibited throughout Scotland and is represented by the Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh, the Fidra Fine Art Gallery, Gullen and the Junor Gallery, St Andrews, and has regularly shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and Paisley Art Institute. Her major Edinburgh panorama landscape ‘Holyrood 2014’ is held in the Scottish Parliament. She has recently been elected to the RSW.
Alan Riach is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, the author of eight poetry collections, including Homecoming and The Winter Book, six books of literary and cultural criticism, the General Editor of the Carcanet edition of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid, co-author with Alexander Moffat of Arts of Resistance: Poets. Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland and author of Scottish Literature: An Introduction, described in The Times as ‘magisterial’.
Landmarks collects Moffat’s portraits of major modern Scottish poets along with Nicol’s landscapes of the poets’ favoured territories throughout Scotland, from the archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney to the west coast and the Borders. Riach’s poems complement the paintings, relating directly to the poets and their work, their landscapes and their biographies. Together, these three genres of art are shown in dialogue with each other, in a series of illuminations and enquiries into the relations between visual and literary forms, and beyond these, into the political and cultural priorities of modern Scotland.
Catalogues from earlier Landmarks exhibitions are available from Ruth Nicol at:
www.ruthnicol.com/publications
Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum, with paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol and music by Ronald Stevenson, is available from Scotland Street Press:
www.scotlandstreetpress.com/authors/alan-riach