Alasdair Gray exhibit opens in Glasgow

A new exhibition of works by Alasdair Gray may attract culture vultures staying in hostels in Newcastle.

Alasdair Gray: City Recorder opened at the Gallery of Modern Art on August 27th.It is a free exhibition and will run through to June 10th next year.

The writer and artist attended the Glasgow School of Art in the mid 1950s and has since become a poet, playwright, novelist, painter and printmaker.

This exhibition features a large selection of art created by Gray, with the majority focusing on his City Recorder series, which is a body of work created as an "artist recorder" for the city in 1977.

Last month, Gray's landmark novel, Lanark, celebrated its 30th anniversary.

Speaking to the Guardian, he revealed why it took him almost 30 years to write this piece of literature.

He told the news provider: "I wanted to describe a man's whole life, and in the earlier phase I felt, 'How can I describe a man's whole life when I can't even get a woman to marry me, and I haven't got a child?'

"However, as I worked on the book, slowly a wife and child were added to me – and then lost - and so I was able to finish it."

 

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