GERALD LAING

Articles from the Exhibition Catalogue

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  Gerald Laing: An Introduction by Ian Carr.

  Gerald Laing and I first met when we were both at crucial stages in our lives. I was a National Service second lieutenant with an honours degree in English literature and a passion for jazz. Gerald was a full lieutenant who had gone through Sandhurst with the intention of making the army his career. He was a romantic with a passion for heraldry, but two years of professional soldiering had knocked the stuffing out of his military idealism, and he was beginning to question everything. It was also dawning on him that he had other talents and interests which could perhaps find expression only in some different way of life.

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  Swift Passages and the Monumental Imagination by David Alan Mellor.

  David Alan Mellor looks at Gerald Laing’s work from 1963 to 1993.

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Works Exhibited

• Axis Mundi, Bronze (five figures and three bowl sundials), granite-clad obelisk, 1990, CR512
• Brigitte Bardot, Oil on canvas, 1963, CR005
• Anna Karina, Oil on canvas, 1963, CR006
• Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, Bronze, 1978, CR379x
• Lincoln Convertible, Oil on irregular, shaped canvas, 1964, CR030
• Panoply, Oil on cellulose paint on irregular, shaped canvas, 1964, CR032
• Collapse, Oil on irregular, shaped canvas, 1964, CR052
• Skydiver VII, Oil on shaped canvas, 1964, CR042
• Loop, Aluminium / lacquer, brass / chrome, marble base, 1968, CR226
• Print, Oil on aluminium and chrome on brass, irregular, hinged and boxed, 1965, CR089
• Hybrid Research Kit, Mixed media, 1965, CR110a
• White Pin, Lacquered aluminium, 1966, CR131
• Yellow Trace, Lacquered aluminium and chrome-covered brass, polished black marble base, 1968, CR214
• Pyramid Folly, Stonework rendered, plastered and painted, 1972, CR283
• Follow Me III, Paint on aluminium, marble base, 1971, CR273
• Anthropomorphic Pyramid I, Paint on plywood, 1973, CR289a
• Standing Buddha, Bronze, 1974, CR299
• Massive Bust, Bronze, 1974, CR298
• Galina I, Bronze, 1973, CR290
• Galina IV, Bronze, 1973, CR293
• Galina V, Bronze, 1976, CR349
• Galina VI, Bronze, 1976, CR350
• Galina VIII, Bronze, 1976, CR361
• Galina X, Bronze, 1977, CR368
• Reclining Figure II (Oak), Laminated oak, 1975, CR322
• Hijacker, Bronze, 1978, CR377
• An American Girl, Bronze, 1977, CR375
• Seated Woman I, Bronze, 1981, CR400
• Waiting, Bronze, 1987, CR467
• Reclining Figure of 1987, Bronze, 1987, CR470
• Fountain of Sabrina, Bronze, 1980, CR385
• Alice Walpole, Bronze, 1986, CR463
• Portrait of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Bronze, 1991, CR520
• The Dance, Bronze, 1987, CR465
• Portrait of Paul Johnson, Bronze, 1992, CR525
• Relief Portrait of Michael Alasdair Findlay, Bronze, 1991, CR521
• Ligia and Titus, Bronze, 1992, CR522
• Sherlock Holmes - A Memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bronze on sandstone plinth, 1989, CR493
• Portrait of Adaline Frelinghuysen I, Bronze, 1984, CR433
• Portrait of Farquhar Aged 10, Bronze, 1980, CR394
• Three-Quarter Relief of Adaline Frelinghuysen, Bronze, 1986, CR455
• Galina II, Bronze, 1973, CR291
• Galina III, Bronze, 1973, CR294
• Galina VII (The Eyes are the Windows of the Soul), Bronze, 1976, CR352
• Conception, Bronze, 1977, CR370
• Hamburg Triptych, Iron, 1981, CR404
• Portrait of Luciano Pavarotti, Bronze, 1993, CR534
• Maquette for a Memorial to Jim Clark, Bronze and painted wood, 1993, CR535
• Relief Portrait of AAGV Ogilvie-Laing, Bronze, 1989, CR491
• Reclining Figure IV (Walnut), Brazilian walnut, 1975, CR326
• Flora, Bronze, 1982, CR407
• Judgement (Maquette for Glasgow Sheriff Court Sculpture Competition), Bronze, 1984, CR434

Prints & Multiples Exhibited

• Swamp Rat V, Screenprint in colours, 1968, CR(PM)017
• Deceleration II, Screenprint in colours, 1968, CR(PM)021
• Stacy, Screenprint in colours, 1968, CR(PM)024
• Starlet, Screenprint in colours, 1968, CR(PM)023

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