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2025
The Two Studios of Alexander Goudie
2025
Alexander Goudie ‘La Belle Vie’ Act II
The second chapter in the Scottish Gallery's celebration of Alexander Goudie’s life and work. 'La Belle Vie' will explore the two studios of Alexander Goudie located in Glasgow and Brittany, the creative focal points of his entire career.
The exhibition will feature sunlit seascapes and landscapes from Brittany as well as elegant still lifes and portraits produced in Goudie's atelier at Arnewood House, Glasgow.
The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6HZ
‘La Belle Vie’ Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. 3 July – 26 July 2025
2025
Commission to record the Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II
Lachlan Goudie sketching the Lying in State. Image; R. Harris
2025
‘My dad and the world’s largest floating art gallery’
The Times January 6th 2025
2024
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
More information about screenings is available here
2024
More Sun, More Colour!
The exhibition can be viewed online at the Scottish Gallery via the link below and in the Exhibitions section of this website
2023
Beyond the Blue Horizon
11th -26th May 2023
Morning on the Mediterranean on show at the Portland Gallery
2022
Times article
2022
Lachlan Goudie in the North
This film accompanies the exhibition 'Painting Paradise' at the Scottish Gallery, 3rd-26th November 2022
Lachlan painting in the North
2022
Sunday Post Article
Sunday Post article. Photo Paul Stewart
2022
Painting Paradise
The exhibition can be viewed online at the Scottish Gallery via the link below and in the Exhibitions section of this website
2022
The Story of Scottish Art, now available in Paperback
384 Pages | £25.00
This is the story of how Scotland has defined itself through its art over the past 5000 years, from the earliest enigmatic Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s fame as a centre of artistic innovation today. Lachlan Goudie brings his perspective and passion as a practising artist and broadcaster to narrate the joys and struggles of artists across the millennia striving to fulfil their vision and the dramatic transformations of Scottish society reflected in their art.
2022
Inside Museums: Glasgow’s Treasure Palace
Artist Lachlan Goudie visits Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum to explore a collection that he has loved since he was a boy.
Kelvingrove is Glasgow’s most important and popular cultural institution, a treasure palace that is home to a vast array of art and artefacts from across the world and across time. It has been a hugely influential part of Lachlan’s life, the single most important collection in shaping his ambition to become a painter.
Exploring an institution he has treasured all his life, in this film Lachlan will rediscover objects with fresh eyes, revealing the power of Kelvingrove’s collection to enlighten our past, and change the way we look at the world today.
Watch the programme on iplayer
2021
Life Drawing Live
The whole BBC2 programme can now be watched again on i-player including the BBC4 'Pose cam' which will allow you to have an uninterrupted view of each of the poses
2021
Alexander Goudie article
Click here for the Times article
2021
Alexander Goudie Exhibition. ‘An Artist’s life; Act I’
The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ
T: 0131 558 1200
Alexander Goudie (1933-2004) RP RGI, was a Scottish figurative painter renowned for his swaggering portraits of Lord Chancellors, business tycoons, celebrities (including Billy Connolly) and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
This new exhibition at The Scottish Gallery charts his beginnings in post-war Paisley in the 1940s, student years at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s and his early career – a period in which Goudie embarked upon a life-long project to document the evolving landscape and culture of his wife’s homeland, Brittany.
2021
Joan Eardley Podcast
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/joan-eardley-podcast
2021
The Scottish Colourists
2021
The Celtic Revival
2021
Rob & Romesh Vs… Art
The first episode of Season 3 is available to view at Sky.com
2020
University Challenge Christmas Special 2020
I led Christs College Cambridge into the valley of unanswerable questions. Find out why Paxman described the team performance as absolutely dismal
2020
Inside Museums
On iPlayer soon after.
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@NatGalleriesSco
2020
Once upon a time
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2020
The Story of Scottish Art
The Story of Scottish Art is a page-turning narrative full of scandals and rebellions, seismic historical events and personal tragedies that inspired or destroyed artists. It is the epic story of how 5000 years of creativity defined a nation – from the earliest Neolithic symbols etched onto the landscape of Kilmartin Glen to Glasgow’s fame as a contemporary centre of artistic innovation. Available to purchase at your local bookshop and online via Waterstones and Amazon
181 Illustrations | £29.95 hardback
2020
New website
Many thanks for a wonderful design to www.72dotsperinch.co.uk
2020
BBC Life Drawing Live
2019
Celebrity Painting Challenge
BBC1 8pm
from Thursday 4th April 2019
2019
Shipyard
There will be an artist's talk on Thursday 30th May.
11th May – 7th June 2019
The Glasgow Art Club
185 Bath Street
Glasgow G2 4HU
T (+44) 0141 248 5210
www.glasgowartclub.co.uk
2018
Solo Exhibition at The Scottish Gallery
31st October-27th November 2018.
The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6HZ
T (+ 44) 0131 558 1200
www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
2019
Painting Trip to Jordan
8th-16th April 2019
For details contact Spencer Scott travel:
www.spencerscotttravel.com
2019
Mackintosh: Glasgow’s neglected genius
2019
Painting the Holy Land
‘In a two-part special for Holy Week, artist Lachlan Goudie goes on a trip of a lifetime to the Holy Land, sketching and painting the people and landscapes he sees there.’
Painting the Holy Land.
BBC1 Friday 30th March 9am
BBC1 Sunday 1st April 9am
BBC4 Sunday 1st April 8pm
BBC4 Monday 2nd April 8pm
2017
The Big Painting Challenge returns
Find all the details at:
2018
Major exhibition at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
’Shipyard’ runs from March 17th 2018 – 11th June 2018
The exhibition will include paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints made over the last 7 years.
2018
Painting trip to the Atlas Mountains
For information please contact
2018
Awesome Beauty on the BBC
Tuesday 29th August BBC4 9pm and afterwards on iPlayer.
2018
The Times
2018
Sargent the Watercolours
Sargent the Watercolours
21st June-8th October 2017
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
London SE21 7AD
2017
Maclaurin Gallery and Rozelle House exhibition in Ayr
4th February to 19th March 2017
Rozelle House Galleries, Rozelle Park,
Monument Road,
Ayr KA7 4NQ
2017
Tam O’Shanter at Rozelle House Galleries
Rozelle House
Monument Road
Ayr
Ayrshire KA7 4NQ
Throughout his life he was inspired by a broad range of subjects, from the rural landscape of Brittany to the art of sumptuous still lives; from Oscar Wilde’s play ‘Salome’ to Robert Burns’ poem ‘Tam o’Shanter’. He even decorated the interiors of great ships, notably the 25,000 tonne flagship of the Brittany Ferries fleet, ‘Le Bretagne’. This exhibition will include work from across the whole of his career, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and ceramics.’
2017
The Big Painting Challenge
The Big Painting Challenge returns on Sunday 1st April 6pm
2016
Alexander Goudie RP RGI – A Retrospective
Alexander Goudie RP RGI;
A Retrospective
11th – 16th April 2016The Mall Galleries, London SW1
Information available from the Mall Galleries
Tel: 020 7930 6844
‘Alexander Goudie (1933-2004) was one of Scotland’s leading figurative painters. After training at the Glasgow School of Art he distinguished himself as a portrait painter whose sitters included HM Queen Elizabeth II. His virtuoso painting style was directly influenced by the legacy of the Scottish Colourists and The Glasgow Boys.
Throughout his life he was inspired by a broad range of subjects, from the rural landscape of Brittany to the art of sumptuous still lives; from Oscar Wilde’s play ‘Salome’ to Robert Burns’ poem ‘Tam o’Shanter’. He even decorated the interiors of great ships, notably the 25,000 tonne flagship of the Brittany Ferries fleet, ‘Le Bretagne’. This exhibition will include work from across the whole of his career, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and ceramics.’