Lot 117
ALASDAIR WALLACE (SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARY) §
A FLITTING
Auction: 18 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
2001, acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
137cm x 152cm (54in x 60in)
Footnote
Provenance: Rebecca Hossak Gallery, London
Note:
A student of the Glasgow School of Art, Wallace continues to live and practise in the city, taking his inspiration from the surrounding environs. His work is described as interpreting "the surrealism of the everyday… at once recognisable and unsettling".
Whilst at the GSA, Wallace 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.