Landmarks in Scottish Literature, Painting and Screen Media
This event explores landmarks in paintings, poetry and screen media.
ARC Public
Date: Wednesday 13 November 2024
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Alan Riach, Kenneth Munro, John Archer
Visitors will explore a ‘Landmarks’ exhibition of paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol with poems by Alan Riach in The ARC, followed by a discussion between the three artists.
In the second half of the event, the discussion introduces two film-makers, Kenneth Munro, also a sculptor, and John Archer, owner of Hopscotch Films, and considers how such landmarks are used in screen media, with onscreen examples illustrated and discussed.