Alasdair Wallace b. 1967
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.
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Canal-ligator, 2018
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Spring Arrivals , 2017
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I Love You 2, 2016
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Earthly Delights, 2015
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Ancestor Figure , 2015
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Ship, 2015
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Roost, 2015
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Saw, 2014
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Red Dog River, 2013
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Haiku 3, 2013
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Haunted Kettle, 2012
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Private Trees, 2011
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Gantry Crows, 2011
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Low Flying Plane, 2011
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Campfire, 2010
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Landscape near a City, 2010
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Camouflage, 2008
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The Singing Whippet, 2008
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Dog, 2007
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Horse and Bird, 2005
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Flock, 2004
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Roost (unframed), 2001
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Red Dog, 1999
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Red dog (unframed), 1999
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Springtime
Group Show 9 April - 31 May 2020Inside Springtime, an exhibition by contemporary artists such as Rose Blake, Nyarapayi Giles, Mersuka Dopazo and Pauline and Emma Wangin at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London.Read more -
Some Sunny Day
Group Show 26 July - 30 August 2019 LondonInside Some Sunny Day, an exhibition celebrating the joys of summer at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London, featuring artists such as Emma Haworth, Ashley Amery and Toby Burrows.Read more -
Ache the Good Ache
Alasdair Wallace 1 December 2016 - 14 January 2017 LondonScottish painter Alasdair Wallace's richly-layered work is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday, portraying worlds filled with odd juxtapositions. Painting urban fringes, his parklands and skylines initially seem familiar....Read more -
Rare Vagrants and Accidentals
Alasdair Wallace, NYC 16 April - 7 May 2014Born in Glasgow in 1967, Alasdair Wallace grew up on the border between city and countryside. The world of his childhood was one of tower blocks silhouetted against distant hills,...Read more -
Talking Tree
Alasdair Wallace 16 January - 22 February 2014 LondonBorn in Drumchapel on the western edge of Glasgow in 1967, Alasdair Wallace grew up on that unfixed and unsettling margin between the modern city and the countryside that surrounds...Read more -
Christmas Gift Ideas
Group Show 17 - 24 December 2013 LondonA specially selected range of artworks, ideal for those for whom only a one-of-a-kind present will do. Including specially comissioned pieces by Rebecca Jewell, Holly Frean and Karen Nicol, all...Read more -
Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Group Show 3 December 2013 - 11 January 2014 LondonThe Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery opened in Fitzrovia, Central London, twenty-five years ago. Since 1988 it has grown to become one of the most innovative and respected galleries in the...Read more
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Alasdair Wallace: Small Wonders
ES Magazine, 17 February 1995 -
Alasdair Wallace at Rebecca Hossack
The Week, 1 August 1995 -
This Twilight Land on the Cusp of Sleep
Homes & Interiors Scotland, 30 November 1999 -
Widower Breathes Life into Wife's Work
Scotland On Sunday, 8 November 2009 -
Scottish Art at the Flemings Hotel
Fleming Collection, 20 November 2009 -
Creative Spirit
Homes & Interiors Scotland , 1 June 2010 -
Alasdair Wallace: Talking Tree
Wall Street International, 31 October 2013 -
Alasdair Wallace: Talking Tree
The Herald, 11 January 2014 -
White Stag on Pink
Homes & Interiors Scotland, 30 August 2015 -
Painter Alasdair Wallace Shows in London
55 Factory, 28 November 2016 -
Alasdair Wallace
Homes & Interiors Scotland, 28 November 2016 -
Alasdair Wallace: Ache The Good Ache
Wall Street International, 13 December 2016