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‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ Joan Eardley said of Townhead, then a slum in the centre of Glasgow. The painter, who was born 100 years ago this month, set up her studio there in 1949, fresh from her studies at Glasgow School of Art. Though she spent long spells in Catterline, an impoverished fishing village on the east coast, south of Aberdeen, Eardley would maintain a studio in Townhead until her premature death from breast cancer in 1963, at the age of just 42. She had found here ‘a little community […] where everybody knew everybody else’. She made it both her métier and her home.
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The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to reopen on Friday with a new Ken Currie work depicting forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black.
Arriving at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) on a long-term loan directly from the artist, the large portrait is titled Unknown Man and shows Professor Black in surgical robes standing behind the covered remains of a body.
The pair met during a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme on the relationship between art and anatomy.
Currie then visited the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, where Professor Black then was director, and was so moved by her work he asked her to sit for a portrait.
Empty gallery gives space to restore huge painting
A monumental painting by Edinburgh-born artist Robert Scott Lauder is the focus of a major conservation project in an empty gallery space in the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). The grand building, built by William Henry Playfair, has stood in the centre of Edinburgh for almost 200 years, housing many exhibitions over the years. But, at the moment, there is only one painting in it and one person at work. Lesley Stevenson, senior paintings conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland, has been working here on and off over both Covid lockdowns. She has been concentrating on just one painting - Christ Teacheth Humility.