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
The Whisky Bond, Glasgow, UK
Joined January 2020
We won the Outstanding Creative Response award for “Glasgow: The Visionary City” at @Glasgowdodf @GlasgowHeritage ceremony last night! Huge thanks to all who voted and to our amazing team @GraySorcha, Abby Carter & Holly Rennie-Brown💫
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Timeline 53 - 2015 – LIFE-CHANGING ACCIDENT: After losing Morag, Alasdair suffered an accident leaving him in a wheelchair. He abandoned large works but completed his Divine Comedy series, which became his focus through recovery. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
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No. 52 – 2014: The Alasdair Gray Season, curated by @GraySorcha , brought Glasgow’s largest Gray retrospective to Kelvingrove. That year, Morag, his wife of 23 years, passed away. Of Me and Others was also published. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
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📢 Exciting news! Our Custodian, @GraySorcha, has been awarded a British Art Network Connect Bursary 🎉 This August she’ll visit the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to explore the creative ties between Alasdair Gray & Anthony Burgess.
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🎥 Watch The City in Conversation on our YouTube (link in bio)! Introduced by @GraySorcha, chaired by Dr Cole Collins, with Holly Rennie Brown, Bek Ziola & Elouise Blackburn. 🏙️ Last week to visit — Wed–Fri, 10–5pm. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
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✨ Don’t miss The City at AGA — curated by Holly-Rennie Brown and reviewed by Evie Glen in this month’s The Skinny. A vivid exploration of queer and working-class histories, community, and care in urban life. Open Wed–Fri, 10–5pm — one week left!
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Pls Share! 📣 Teachers! Explore Looking at Glasgow: Buildings and Stories with Alasdair Gray — a new 8-lesson P6–P7 resource on Glasgow’s art, identity & architecture. 🎨 Email sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org for free pack! #Glasgow850 #CfE
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Delighted to welcome musician, filmmaker, & @sgsah PhD researcher Carla J Easton today! We discussed her work on Since Yesterday documentary & her ongoing research & planned archive with @scottishmusic —DIY culture, feminism, care, & overlooked stories, an inspiring chat!
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Timeline post 51 – SPT Hillhead Subway Mural Unveiled & Every Short Story 1951–2012 is published, collecting all Alasdair Gray’s short fiction. That year, his 7ft x 40ft Hillhead Subway mural—crafted with Nichol Wheatley & team—transforms Glasgow’s West End station.
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Our Custodian @GraySorcha visited @BellahoustonAc with The Travelling Archive today📚✨ We’ve been working with Miss Donnelly on new biography-writing materials inspired by Alasdair Gray. New resource & CPD launching next year!
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Timeline 50- 2010 – A Life in Pictures published by @canongatebooks, a vivid pictorial autobiography of Gray’s life &art. That year also saw Collected Verse, the founding of The Alasdair Gray Foundation, & completion of the May Hooper portraits.
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📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @AOwensArchive exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by @CreativeScots. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.com, Link in bio to brief & criteria✍️
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🌟 Thrilled to announce our 2026 Creative Commission (with @StrathclydeCW ): the brilliant RACHELLE ATALLA! 🎉 The award-winning Scottish–Egyptian author + screenwriter will create new work inspired by Alasdair Gray. More info via our site! #AlasdairGray #RachelleAtalla
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was quite the read upon the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things". https://t.co/BtyJkPVfYg
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We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛 Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
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🎃 Happy Halloween! 👹 Today we’re exploring Gray’s devil motif — which mirror our fears, failures & corrupt systems. In Lanark, hell is life itself—where the author, like the devil, creates, controls & torments. “Hell is not elsewhere — it’s the world we build for ourselves.”
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Our latest monthly newsletter now live on Substack, give us a follow!
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On this day, Oct 30, 1984, 1982, Janine was published. Alasdair Gray’s darkly comic, experimental second novel follows Jock McLeish—alone, drunk, fantasizing, and confronting his failures. A shocking, brilliant portrait of desire and despair.
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