MORRISON From Glasgow to the Rough Bounds of Ardnamurchan From Glasgow to the Rough Bounds of Ardnamurchan Jolomo 13th October 2018 - 10th November 2018 The Glasgow Gallery invites you to the Private View: 6.30 - 8.30 pm, 12th October. Alan Horn of Glasgow School of Art will introduce the exhibition and the artist will be present. 182 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4HG www.jolomo.com Phone: 0141 333 1991 www.glasgowgallery.co.uk Email: [email protected] Opening Times: Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5.30pm / Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm. Paintings available on receipt of this catalogue. A percentage of the Artist’s proceeds will be donated to The Mackintosh Appeal. 3 Foreword: September 2018 I was born in 1948 and brought up in 21 Simpson Street, just off I have had a love affair with the area ever since … adding my Wilton Street & Maryhill Road Glasgow. I remember the top floor wife, three sons and now three grandsons along the way. tenement very well .. a Room & Kitchen it was called … my parents had the bedroom .. my brother had the bed recess in the kitchen … I I’ve painted Glasgow many times from the late 50’s and slept in a bed - chair in front of the wonderful kitchen range which I into the 60’s … and then started painting Ardnamurchan gazed into every night watching the flames as I went off to sleep. since the late 60’s when studying at The GSA. My main memory though was of being bathed … not in the big zinc bath I’ve always loved the ‘Light’ of Ardnamurchan particularly in which hung on a pulley in the front door Lobby and was usually put in Springtime, and we now experience that sharp light often as we front of the kitchen range …. No … I was bathed in the big Belfast Sink have a house and second Studio on the edge of Loch Sunart. right in front of a tall window for all to see down in the street ! It was a cold December day and the window thankfully kept on steaming up .. I think that my love of the West Coast Landscape and Light is due to my parents, in the 1920’s to the 1960’s, being great outdoor enthusiasts. It was here that I made my first artistic marks, drawing on the steam with my finger and looking down on a snowy Simpson Street through my ‘finger Tenement life must have been grim at times with lack of colour and made’ marks. This image is still very strong and will never leave me. polluted air .. so they headed for Argyll .. Tighnabruaich .. Oban … and beyond to Sanna Bay .. either on their tandem bike or in various Within a few years my parents moved to the West End to live in Ford motors and a Jowett Javelin Bradford shooting brake. Hyndland …. so North Woodside / North Kelvinside and Hyndland are very much my ‘Roots’ …. and even though we have lived in Argyll for So really this is what the exhibition about .. memories ! 44 years … I still feel Glasgow in me .. I still feel Glasgow is my home ! And I am still a Glasgow Boy at heart … so the starting So this exhibition is a wee bit about ‘my Glasgow roots’ but also point of the exhibition is “The Dear Green Place.” about the main part of the exhibition which is Ardnamurchan. Dr. John Lowrie Morrison OBE I was first taken to Ardnamurchan in 1949 as a baby … There is a great photo of me being sat on the bonnet of my Dad’s FORD ‘WS 3591’ … right The Studio Tayvallich Argyll 4 Photograph by Simon Morrison. All paintings photographed by The Jolomo Studio. ©Jolomo Ltd. 2018 down on Sanna Bay Beach … which you are not allowed to do now ! 5 The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art The Mackintosh Building, towering above Sauchiehall Street in Garnethill, has been at the heart of The Glasgow School of Art for over a hundred years, nurturing successive generations of artists, designers and architects. To those who studied it and visited over the years it was the masterwork of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a remarkable building full of magnificent spaces, extraordinary light and rich, almost spiritual symbolism. To those who had the privilege of studying or working in it, it was quite simply home! In 2014, a fire caused significant damage to much of the west of the building, including the complete destruction of the iconic library. A painstaking £80m restoration programme began to return the Mackintosh Building to its original condition. In addition to the insurance settlement, a £32m fundraising campaign was launched, which to date has raised over £25m, thanks to the support of the UK and Scottish Governments, charitable trusts, companies and individuals. John Lowrie Morrison, himself a graduate of the School and one of those who studied in the Mackintosh Building, has been a stalwart and generous supporter of the campaign since the appeal was launched in 2014. We are truly grateful, not only for the financial support and publicity, but also for friendship and kindness of John and his family. On the 15th June 2018, as we entered the final year of the restoration, The Mackintosh Building was once again a victim of fire. On this occasion the fire spread throughout the building and the resultant From Glasgow to the damage is much more severe and comprehensive. We are heartbroken at this loss. We also recognise the distress of our neighbours in Garnethill and Sauchiehall St who have been displaced and adversely affected as a consequence. Rough Bounds of Ardnamurchan The Glasgow School of Art however is a resilient community, in a resilient neighbourhood of a resilient city, and we will continue to deliver a world class creative education to our students. We also recognise and embrace our custodianship of the Mackintosh Building, and we are committed to rebuilding it, authentically and sympathetically, to finish the job we began in 2014. We would like to thank everyone for their continued kind thoughts and support. Alan Horn FRSA, MA, LLB, Dip LP 6 7 Director of Development 8 Stormy Autumnlight, Park Terrace | 24x24 Autumn rain passing Park Terrace, Glasgow | 24x24 9 10 A Glasgow tenement off Wilton Street | 24x24 Tenement demolition, Parliamentary Road, Glasgow, 1970 | 12x12 11 12 A west end light, Kelvingrove, Glasgow | 24x24 Autumnlight at Trinity Towers, Park Circus | 30x30 13 14 Joan Eardley’s Townhead Studio, demolished 1970 | 10x18 Heavy snowfall, Park Terrace, Glasgow | 10x18 15 16 Stormy sunset, Portuairk | 24x24 17 18 A quiet night mooring, Sanna | 30x30 A summer moon, Sanna Bay | 24x24 19 20 Name of Painting | 30x30 Name of Painting | 30x30A summer evening gloaming, Portuairk | 24x24 21 22 Portuairk, Ardnamurchan | 30x30 Moonrise, Ben Resipole and Loch Sunart | 10x16 23 24 An evening gloaming, Ben Resipole, Ardnamurchan | 10x18 Evening gloaming, Kentra, Ardnamurchan | 16x30 25 26 Wild eveninglight over Sanna, Ardnamurchan | 10x16 27 28 A misty moonlight, Portuairk | 16x16 Stormy sunset, back of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan | 16x20 29 30 A summer moonrise, Portuairk | 30x30 A spring moonrise, Kilchoan | 24x24 31 32 Mo’s footprints in the sand, Portuairk | 10x16 Footprints in the sand, Sanna Bay | 16x30 33 34 Misty morninglight, Portuairk, Ardnamurchan | 20x20 Beached boat, Portuairk, Ardnamurchan | 16x30 35 36 A summer moon, Sanna, Ardnamurchan | 16x16 Beach path to the Singing Sands, Ardnamurchan | 10x18 37 38 Wild day, Ardnamurchan Lighthouse | 20x20 Evening reflections, Portuairk | 24x24 39 40 Isle of Barra from Portuairk, Ardnamurchan | 10x16 41 42 Night falls on Portuairk, Ardnamurchan | 18x32 43 44 Rusted corry roof at Ockle, Ardnamurchan | 10x18 Summerlight, Kilchoan, looking to Ben Talla | 10x18 45 46 Portuairk from Sanna | 10x16 Summerlight, Portuairk, looking to Rum| 36x36 47 48 Sunset over Rum from Portuairk | 36x68 49 50 Wild day, the Singing Sands of Kentra, Ardnamurchan | 16x30 .