THE Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh is to present an exhibition of portraits by Alexander Moffat, which is timed to coincide with the publication of his monograph, A View of the Nation, published by Luath Press.
With text by Bill Hare, the book charts Moffat’s career as a portraitist.
The exhibition includes portraits of poets involved in the 'Scottish Renaissance' as well as Alasdair Gray, Adrian Wiszniewski, Peter Howson and Ken Currie.
Moffat was born in Dunfermline in 1943.
After studying at Edinburgh College of Art (1960-64) he was the Director of New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, for ten years. Moffat’s first major solo exhibition, A View of the Portrait, was mounted at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 1973. In 1979 he took up a teaching position at Glasgow School of Art where he was Head of Painting and Printmaking from 1992 to 2005.
At GSA, Moffat taught a group of young Scottish artists including Ken Currie, Peter Howson, Steven Campbell and Adrian Wiszniewski, who would become known as the ‘New Glasgow Boys’.
Aside from his practice as an artist, Moffat is an influential cultural commentator and has published two books: Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2008) and Arts of Independence (2014).
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THIS Script (and other drafts) is to be staged by spoken word performer Jenny Lindsay as Flint and Pitch.
It will take place on February 1 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
The work in the show has been inspired by "schisms within feminisms, the ongoing revelations of #MeToo, endless discussions about manels, mansplaining, representation and being told to shhh; after 15 years working in spoken word in Scotland and getting irked with both sexism and ageism in her own industry (coupled with listening to the sirens that are the soundtrack to our newsfeeds) Jenny Lindsay found herself getting a bit angry in 2017."
Lindsay has written a series of "univocal" poems, "invented a superhero on her period, explored the rift between individualist and collectivist movements in feminism, set up a date between capitalism and feminism, and penned some found poems based on comments on [online adult] videos."
Lindsay is one of Scotland’s best known spoken word performers.
She is the author of one full collection and two pamphlet collections of poetry, was the BBC Slam Champion in 2012 and was longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2017.
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AFTER his successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer, Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Chortle Awards Best Newcomer nominee Bilal Zafar is to have a nationwide tour with his latest show, Biscuit.
Beginning on February 2, the twenty-two date tour will see him perform at venues across the country, including a six night run at London’s Soho Theatre.
He will come to Scotland in March, and perform at McPhabbs in Glasgow on March 17.
Zafar was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, before taking his show on tour across the UK.
He has had a pilot commissioned with BBC Radio 4, recently appeared in an episode of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed Catastrophe, and has featured on BBC Three, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Asian Network, and Sky News.
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