Alasdair Gray: Glasgow Piranesi

Alasdair Gray is best-known as one of Scotland's foremost novelists, the author of groundbreaking works including Lanark and 1982, Janine. However, he is also an artist: as well as illustrating his own works, he is a remarkable portrait painter, and his odd, brilliant murals can be found on the walls of private and public buildings in his native Glasgow. A collection of his artwork, A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray, is newly published by Canongate
  
  


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The Scottish painter and novelist standing in front of one of his murals in the auditorium of former church Òran Mór, now a Glasgow arts venue. The murals in the auditorium constitute one of Scotland's largest pieces of public art Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian
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Gray's 1978 poster for The Continuous Glasgow Show, an exhibition of art at the People's Palace in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens Photograph: Canongate
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Red Beth, 1968 Photograph: Canongate
Alasdair Gray: Alasdair Gray
Cowcaddens Streetscape in the Fifties, 1964 Photograph: Canongate
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London Road between Templeton's Carpet Factory and Monaco Bar (end of Arcadia St III), 1977 Photograph: Canongate
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A mural illustrating the book of Jonah, from the wall of a private flat in Glasgow, painted in 1961, and restored with added detail in 2002 Photograph: Canongate
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The City: Version Two, 1951 Photograph: Alasdair Gray/Canongate
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Snakes and Ladders (film sequence with Liz Lochhead), 1972 Photograph: Canongate
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Alasdair Gray Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian
 

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