Alexander Goudie | An Artist’s Life, Act I - Invitation

1 - 24 July 2021 Alexander Goudie Lara Scouller Miyu Kurihara Material Matters Jock McFadyen

Alexander Goudie An Artist’s Life Act I C ATA L O G U E AVA I L A B L E

Flamboyant and confrontational, Scottish figurative painter Alexander Goudie (1933-2004) was part of a generation of influential painters who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s, and whose reputations are ripe for reappraisal. An Artist’s Life, Act I, charts his beginnings in post-war Paisley in the 1940s, student years at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s and his early career - a period in which Goudie embarked upon a life-long project to document the evolving landscape and culture of his wife’s homeland, Brittany. To accompany this exhibition, we have created a beautifully illustrated publication, which includes vintage images of the artist and family. Join our events programme, which includes personal insight from his son, the artist, author and broadcaster, Lachlan Goudie. www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/alexandergoudie

Images Cover: Alexander Goudie, Self Portrait at Glasgow School of Art, c.2000, oil and chalk on board, 112 x 81 cm Left: Alexander Goudie, Party Piece , c. 1975, oil and charcoal on canvas, 124 x 208 cm Above: Alexander Goudie, Self Portrait with Red Scarf, c. 1985, oil on canvas, 106 x 101 cm

Online Events Virtual View Thursday 1 July | 6pm Lunchtime Exhibition Tour | Lachlan Goudie Thursday 8 July | 2pm An Artist’s Son | Guy Peploe and Lachlan Goudie in Conversation Thursday 15 July | 6pm The Story of Scottish Art | Lachlan Goudie Thursday 22 July | 6pm Register online www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/events

A L E X ANDER GOUD I E | A N A RT I S T ’ S L I F E AC T I

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Since childhood I have been preoccupied with drawing and painting. Everything which excited my imagination had to be set down in pictorial terms. A magic world where a different language helps explore human experience and makes permanent those transient encounters with the visually stimulating.

- Alexander Goudie, Festival Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 1977

Images Above: Alexander Goudie, In The Garden of Love, c. 1970, oil and charcoal on canvas, 142 x 284 cm Right: Alexander Goudie, Autumn Morning, Cleveden Road Atelier, c.2000, oil and charcoal on canvas, 183 x 153 cm

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