Landmarks – Border Voices: Artists in Conversation

Overview

Portraits-Landscapes-Poems

The renowned Scottish artists, Alexander Moffat, whose portraits of the great modern Scottish poets culminated in the iconic Poets’ Pub (Scottish National Galleries) and Border’s Voices (currently at the Scott Gallery), and Ruth Nicol, whose work is widely represented and whose epic landscape Holyrood 2014 hangs in the Scottish Parliament, will be in discussion with poet Alan Riach, professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University.  

They will introduce and explore the current exhibition of their paintings and poems depicting and celebrating some of Scotland’s finest modern poets, artists and composers, including the Borderers Hugh MacDiarmid, William Johnstone and F.G. Scott. They will explore the Hawick, Langholm and Selkirk from which their work arose, and the 20th-century cultural Renaissance in the arts which it initiated.  

Moffat, Nicol and Riach promise an hour of lively and exciting provocations, vibrant poetry readings, curious questions, firm answers, and an open conversation characterised by conviction, gusto and smeddum!