GERALD LAING

Bilith I

Catalogue raisonné no. 280

Artist's CR 269

1970

Kinkell

Steel, stone base

25.75 x 11 x6 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• 1971: Gerald Laing, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1971
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• Laing Mylius Scobie, Cleish Castle, near Kinross, 1975
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing and Alasdair Hamilton, 1971: Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1971
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• Laing Mylius Scobie, exhibition catalogue, Cleish Castle, 1975
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• Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, exhibition catalogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1993
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• Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011
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Selected Citations and Comments

I began fabricating the sculpture in order to produce works with a proper and tangible volume. This tranch of work I developed from the earlier ‘Pins’; it was made in answer to the new environment in which I now lived, and refers to the enigmatic prehistoric standing stones which are scattered in the landscape. The first of the group were called ‘Biliths’, composed as they were of two standing components (ref. monoliths). It would have been more accurate to call them ‘Bifers’, since they are made of iron.

Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011, ch.34