Alasdair Wallace

Alasdair Wallace trained at Glasgow School of Art from 1987 to 1991. After graduating he travelled to Italy after winning the John Kinross Scholarship from the Royal Scottish Academy. He has won numerous other awards including the William Littlejohn Award, Guthrie Medal (RSA), Walter Scott Award (RSW), The Armour Award, City of Glasgow College Award (RGI), Noble Grossart Painting Prize (2001) and the W Gordon Smith And Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award (SSA, 2018). His works are held in a number of collections including: Glasgow Museums and Galleries, The Walter Scott Collection, The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, Cromarty Arts Trust, The Royal Scottish Academy, North Lanarkshire Council, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust and The City Of Glasgow College.

He exhibits regularly at Compass Gallery in Glasgow and also in Edinburgh and London. Alasdair is an accomplished draughtsman and technician. His works are sophisticated in terms of both their accessibility to the spectator, and the complexity of thought which lies behind them, and "is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday". Alasdair's "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. 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".