Alexander Moffat,
OBE,
RSA, (born 1943) known as Sandy Moffat, is a painter, author, philosopher, and teacher.
Biography
Alexander Moffat
OBE DLitt
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RSA studied at
Edinburgh Art College, where he was taught by William Gillies, Robin Philipson and James Cumming.
He concentrated on portraiture, described as "Scottish realism", and was among the leading Scottish intellectuals of the 1960s. He was Head of Painting and Printmaking at the
Glasgow School of Art
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, where he worked for 25 years until 2005 and is credited with helping to steer the resurgence of figurative painting at the GSA. Painters like the so called New Glasgow Boys of the late 1980s including
Steven Campbell,
Peter Howson
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Early life
Peter Howson was born in London of Scottish parents and moved with his family to Prestwick, A ...
,
Adrian Wiszniewski and
Ken Currie
Ken Currie (born 1960 in North Shields, Northumberland, England) is a Scottish artist and a graduate of Glasgow School of Art (1978–1983). Ken grew up in industrial Glasgow. This has had a significant influence on his early works. In the 19 ...
,
in addition to
Jenny Saville
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and
Alison Watt, were amongst his students. Sandy Moffat, in conjunction with
Sam Ainsley and
David Harding, ''individually and collectively nurtured generations of artists who have gone on to make Glasgow's reputation as a leading centre of creative practice''
''.''
Collections
Examples of Moffat's work are held in the collections of the
National Galleries of Scotland,
the Russell-Cotes art gallery, the
University of Edinburgh
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, Fife Council, the
University of St Andrews
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, the
Museum of the Isles, the Orkney Islands Council, the North Ayrshire Council, and the
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture.
Exhibitions
*
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. The gallery holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. It also holds the Scottish National Photography Co ...
[
* The Press Club, Warsaw][
* The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh][
* The Peacocks Visual Arts Gallery, Aberdeen.][
]
Books
* ''Arts of Independence'' (with Alan Riach), Luath Press, 2014
* ''Arts of Resistance'' (with Alan Riach), Luath Press, 2009
See also
* Portrait painting in Scotland
Portrait painting in Scotland includes all forms of painted portraiture in Scotland, from its beginnings in the early sixteenth century until the present day. The origins of the tradition of portrait painting in Scotland are in the Renaissance, ...
References
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1943 births
Scottish artists
Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire