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The Alasdair Gray Archive is a free, public resource. We reflect the collaborative way in which Alasdair worked by sharing the stories of others and making the archive a reflection of who he was as a person and practitioner.
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In November 2019, the Saltire Literary Awards presented its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award to Alasdair Gray, a true icon of Scottish art – and a true iconoclast. Gray was an artist in every form: a writer of poetry, plays, criticism, historical and political philosophy; a painter; an illustrator and designer; a teacher; a translator.
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You can explore seven archive items which highlight differentaspects of Alasdair Gray's creative process. Sources 1, 2 and 7 areexamples of how he approached illustrating text, and sources 3, 4,5 and 6 highlight his process of writing and editing.
Alasdair Gray (1934-2019) was a Scottish novelist, playwright,poet, painter and illustrator based in Glasgow. His most famousnovel, 'Lanark', was developed over a period of almost 30 years,and was published by Canongate Press in 1981. During his career, he wrote for stage, radio, and television. Aswell as painting large-scale murals and stage sets,...
Alasdair Gray's archive is held in the Library's manuscriptcollections, and includes original artwork for 'Lanark', 'UnlikelyStories, Mostly', '1982, Janine' and 'Lean Tales'. Writing and editing Anyone interested in Gray's methods of writing and editing canaccess hand-written manuscripts, typescripts, research material,and correspondence relating ...
The following images were reproduced with kind permission of thepublisher: 'The Problem', from 'Unlikely Stories, Mostly' by Alasdair Gray,first published in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltts, 14 HighStreet, Edinburgh EH1 1TE. Hillhead, Glasgow, from 'Old Men in Love' by Alasdair Gray,first published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury. Images ...
The star shone white and blue, making the space around him like a cave in an iceberg. He brought it close to his eye. In its depth was the pattern of a snow-flake, the grandest thing he has ever seen. He looked through the flake’s crystal lattice into an ocean of glittering blue-black waves under a sky full of huge galaxies.
The Alasdair Gray Archive is a free, public resource which was established in March 2020 after Alasdair Gray’s death in late 2019. A view inside the Archive at the Whisky Bond. Photo: Alan Dimmick.
Alasdair Gray (1934 – 2019) was a Glasgow-born writer and artist. Over decades creating poems, plays, short stories, novels, political essays, murals, paintings, drawings and prints, he built a legacy as a polymath and one of Scotland’s most uncompromisingly original artistic voices.
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Oct 6, 2022 · Explore Alasdair Gray’s striking murals & their history and dive into the life of the Glasgow-born artist with the Alasdair Gray Archive.
