A landscape featuring a green hill and a yellow-green sky. There is a submarine like vessel balancing at the top of the hill. Created as part of the GPS 50th Anniversary 'Here & Now Legacy Print Project'
Alasdair Wallace was born in Glasgow in 1967. He studied Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art 1987-1991. He continues to live and work in Glasgow and exhibits in Scotland, London and internationally. He made his first editioned etching at Glasgow Print Studio in 1999 working with master printmaker Stuart Duffin. There followed 3 more GPS editioned screen prints in collaboration with master printmakers Norman Mathieson and Scott Campbell. Eventually Wallace became a member of GPS and began producing etchings on his own having undertaken classes with yet another master printmaker Ian McNicol. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions at GPS over the years and in the summer of 2019 Glasgow Print Studio hosted Wallace's largest solo exhibition to date and the first in his hometown of Glasgow in two decades.
The Ark etching is partly inspired by a Hieronymus Bosch panel of 1514 depicting Noah’s Ark having come to rest on the summit of mount Ararat. In my image I have substituted a vessel designed to survive catastrophe with one that is liable to be the instrument of one.
As in much of my work I seek to create imagery which has an emblematic quality but which also evades straightforward interpretation. Intuitively I look for the ambiguous possibilities of an image which can live in the imagination of the viewer.
