Gerald Laing
Gerald Ogilvie Laing (11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011) was a British pop artist and sculptor.[1] He lived in the Scottish Highlands.[2]
Life
Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne[3] and attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before St Martin's School of Art.[4]
Laing’s career took him from the avant-garde world of 1960s pop art, through minimalist sculpture, followed by representational sculpture and then back full circle to his pop art roots.
In 1993 the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh staged a retrospective exhibition of Laing's work.[5]
Work
Notable works include:
- Brigitte Bardot (1962) painting and subsequent screen prints including dragsters and the Baby Baby Wild Things series (late 1960s)
- Callanish (1974) abstract steel sculpture for the campus of Strathclyde University to mimic the Callanish Stones
- The Galina series including An American Girl (1977)
- Sherlock Holmes (1991), Picardi Place, Edinburgh
- Axis Mundi (1995), Tanfield House, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Twickenham Rugby Players (1995), London, England
- Bank Station Dragons (1995), Bank tube station, London
- Falcon Square (2001), Inverness, Scotland
- New Paintings for Modern Times (2004–2009): a series of work drawn from the Gulf war and modern media
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1936 |
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23 November 2011 |
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