Alasdair Wallace b. 1967

Overview
Alasdair Wallace's art is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday. His 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.  
 
Wallace lives and works in Glasgow, and 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. 
 
'It's a strange life,' Wallace explains, 'and I wander through it drawing together influences and experiences to make these absurd icons.'  
 
Wallace studied at the Glasgow School of Art (where he won the J.D. Kelly Award for the most promising student in his year). He exhibits regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1999 the RSA presented him the Guthrie Award. In 2001 he won the Noble Grossart Painting Prize. His work was included in the major survey show of Scottish painting at the Fleming Collection gallery in London in 2009.  Wallace exhibited in the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour's annual show in 2015, where he was awarded two prizes, the House for an Art Lover Prize and the Walter Scott Prize.
Works
  • "Your fingers hover over a phospherescense in your palm at dusk" and skull on call etching in blue. "Haiku 3" by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Haiku 3, 2013
  • Man camouflaged in tree acrylic paintingby Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Camouflage, 2008
  • "The Singing Whippet" - white greyhound on blue table in forest acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    The Singing Whippet, 2008
  • Bronze Greyhound dog sculpture acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Dog, 2007
  • "Flock" - Flock of birds on yellow background screenprint acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Flock, 2004
  • Rooster Tree Screenprint. "Roost" by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Roost (unframed), 2001
  • Grey-scale dog in eerie landscape. "Red Dog" by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Red Dog, 1999
  • "Red Dog" Greyhound screenprint by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Red dog (unframed), 1999
  • Night-time Alligator in Canal ("Canal-ligator") acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Canal-ligator, 2018
  • Aeroplane sitting on trees over house acrylic painting. "Low Flying Plane" acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Low Flying Plane, 2011
  • Alasdair Wallace, Red Dog River, 2013
    Red Dog River, 2013
  • Flying Birds Venn diagram acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Spring Arrivals , 2017
  • House under Rooster trees on Yellow. "Roost" acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Roost, 2015
  • Chair, Saw, Birds, Trees on blue. "Saw" acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Saw, 2014
  • "Ancestor Figure" - Grey deer and skull etching by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Ancestor Figure , 2015
  • Large bird and Apartment block acrylic painting ("Earthly Delights") acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Earthly Delights, 2015
  • Birds in Red Forest with Boom Barrier gate. "Private Trees" acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Private Trees, 2011
  • "I Love You 2" Bare tree and tea cup etching acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    I Love You 2, 2016
  • Gantry Crows on blue table acrylic painting acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Gantry Crows, 2011
  • Alasdair Wallace, Haunted Kettle, 2012
    Haunted Kettle, 2012
  • Burning Forest "Campfire" acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Campfire, 2010
  • Orange horse and bird acrylic painting acrylic painting by Alasdair Wallace. Represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery.
    Horse and Bird, 2005
  • Alasdair Wallace, Ship, 2015
    Ship, 2015
  • Alasdair Wallace, Landscape near a City, 2010
    Landscape near a City, 2010
Exhibitions
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