The Alasdair Gray Archive
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Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian @GraySorcha
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Michael Pederson and Hollie McNish - The Cat Princ e book launch, GSA Degree Show Event, 4 June, GSA, Reid Lecture Theatre, Michael Pedersen Hollie McNish The Glasgow School of Art The Alasdair Gray Archive Waterstones Byres Road Friends of People's Palace & Winter Gardens glasgowwestend.co.uk/michael-peders…
Wonderful to welcome Graham Norton and Jono McLeod to the archive today, thanks for visiting!
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Wonderful to welcome the dream team from expressive arts Whitehill Secondary yesterday. Planning a project to celebrate AG’s connection to the school for 2025. Here’s an early story he wrote for their magazine, about school in the year 2000 staff are replaced by bots called ‘Erts’!
Meet Emma Campbell one of students on placement with us from Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde Creative Writing at Strathclyde @unistrathclyde She is writing a biography of Alasdair’s contemporary, Alasdair Taylor. Alongside this, she is helping the other students catalogue Gray’s personal library. Thanks Emma 🙏
Joining the CSCS PG Sympsoium at our keynote panel discussion on the theme 'What is Scotland? Reinventions and Connections', we are thrilled to welcome Sorcha Dallas. Sorcha Dallas Gray UofG Arts & Humanities
04/06: a luscious FREE Glasgow launch event. That’s me & Hollie McNish & a GSA animation showcase at The Glasgow School of Art. Animations in response to our books + The Alasdair Gray Archive. Project spearheaded by Ross Hogg. Bookstall by Waterstones Byres Road, & there’s refreshments!
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Attention researchers! 📢
We are delighted to announce our upcoming Collaborative Doctoral Award, funded by SGSAH and jointly supervised with School of Art History, University of St Andrews.
This funded PhD studentship centres on Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art.
Went to this today. Was amazing! Such a great wee place keeping Alasdair Gray alive. Please go to The Alasdair Gray Archive!
Jam packed tour today… thanks to all for visiting and for the many enthusiastic conversations! It’s a real privilege to share the collection with you ❤️
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Our talented intern Teoh made these wonderful felted interpretations of some Gray motifs as a gift for Our Custodian Sorcha Dallas Gray They have been a truly excellent intern to host. We were so touched to receive such a creative and thoughtful gift, thanks Teoh ❤️
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A treat to welcome former Manuscripts Curator National Library of Scotland Sally Harrower & artist Joyce Gunn Cairns today.
Both had long standing creative relationships with AG. Was wonderful to catch up with them both and reminisce about Alasdair ❤️
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Ross Maneely is another of our excellent placement students! They are studying English and Creative Writing University of Strathclyde & are cataloguing Alasdair's personal library to create an online an in person catalogue resource. Thanks Ross it’s been a pleasure to host you! 🙌
Meet our placement student Arthur Zheng! Arthur is studying History of Art, Theory & Display at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art He is working on an evaluation of the social and artistic impact of the ‘Gray Day’ event to analyse the way the event celebrates culture.🙌
