The Alasdair Gray Archive
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
✨ That’s a wrap on The City exhibition! ✨ Thanks to everyone who visited. Exploring Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens, it featured a newly commissioned text by Elouise Blackburn clip here — full reading now on AGA’s YouTube!
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
✨ That’s a wrap on The City exhibition! ✨ Thanks to everyone who visited. Exploring Glasgow through a queer, working-class lens, it featured a newly commissioned text by Elouise Blackburn clip here — full reading now on AGA’s YouTube!
We were delighted to welcome the wonderful Whitehill Former Pupils’ Club! 💛 It means so much to connect with former and new pupils of Gray’s Secondary — here’s to making this an annual get-together! ✨ #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
We were delighted to welcome the wonderful Whitehill Former Pupils’ Club! 💛 It means so much to connect with former and new pupils of Gray’s Secondary — here’s to making this an annual get-together! ✨ #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
Thrilled to have the brilliant @josielong.bsky.social at the archive today! Exciting collaborations ahead 👀 She’s a trailblazing, multi-award-winning comedian, writer & filmmaker—thanks for visiting, Josie! 💫 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thrilled to have the brilliant @josielong.bsky.social at the archive today! Exciting collaborations ahead 👀 She’s a trailblazing, multi-award-winning comedian, writer & filmmaker—thanks for visiting, Josie! 💫 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
We won the Outstanding Creative Response award for “Glasgow: The Visionary City” at Glasgow Doors Open Day Festival ceremony last night! Huge thanks to all who voted and to our amazing team @sorchadallas.bsky.social Abby Carter & Holly Rennie-Brown💫
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We won the Outstanding Creative Response award for “Glasgow: The Visionary City” at Glasgow Doors Open Day Festival ceremony last night! Huge thanks to all who voted and to our amazing team @sorchadallas.bsky.social Abby Carter & Holly Rennie-Brown💫
Timeline 53 - 2015 – LIFE-CHANGING ACCIDENT: After losing Morag, Alasdair suffered an accident leaving him in a wheelchair. He abandoned large works but completed his Divine Comedy series, which became his focus through recovery. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Timeline 53 - 2015 – LIFE-CHANGING ACCIDENT: After losing Morag, Alasdair suffered an accident leaving him in a wheelchair. He abandoned large works but completed his Divine Comedy series, which became his focus through recovery. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
No. 52 – 2014: The Alasdair Gray Season, curated by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, brought Glasgow’s largest Gray retrospective to Kelvingrove. That year, Morag, his wife of 23 years, passed away. Of Me and Others was also published. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
No. 52 – 2014: The Alasdair Gray Season, curated by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, brought Glasgow’s largest Gray retrospective to Kelvingrove. That year, Morag, his wife of 23 years, passed away. Of Me and Others was also published. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
📢 Exciting news! Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, has been awarded a British Art Network Connect Bursary 🎉 This August she’ll visit the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to explore the creative ties between Alasdair Gray & Anthony Burgess. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
📢 Exciting news! Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, has been awarded a British Art Network Connect Bursary 🎉 This August she’ll visit the International Anthony Burgess Foundation to explore the creative ties between Alasdair Gray & Anthony Burgess. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
🎥 Watch The City in Conversation on our YouTube (link in bio)! Introduced by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Cole Collins, with Holly Rennie Brown, Bek Ziola & Elouise Blackburn. 🏙️ Last week to visit — Wed–Fri, 10–5pm. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🎥 Watch The City in Conversation on our YouTube (link in bio)! Introduced by @sorchadallas.bsky.social, chaired by Dr Cole Collins, with Holly Rennie Brown, Bek Ziola & Elouise Blackburn. 🏙️ Last week to visit — Wed–Fri, 10–5pm. #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive
✨ Don’t miss The City at AGA — curated by Holly-Rennie Brown and reviewed by Evie Glen in this month’s The Skinny. A vivid exploration of queer and working-class histories, community, and care in urban life. Open Wed–Fri, 10–5pm — one week left!
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
✨ Don’t miss The City at AGA — curated by Holly-Rennie Brown and reviewed by Evie Glen in this month’s The Skinny. A vivid exploration of queer and working-class histories, community, and care in urban life. Open Wed–Fri, 10–5pm — one week left!
Pls Share! 📣 Teachers! Explore Looking at Glasgow: Buildings and Stories with Alasdair Gray — a new 8-lesson P6–P7 resource on Glasgow’s art, identity & architecture. 🎨 Email sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org for free pack! #Glasgow850 #CfE
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Pls Share! 📣 Teachers! Explore Looking at Glasgow: Buildings and Stories with Alasdair Gray — a new 8-lesson P6–P7 resource on Glasgow’s art, identity & architecture. 🎨 Email sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org for free pack! #Glasgow850 #CfE
Delighted to welcome musician, filmmaker, & @sgsah.bsky.social PhD researcher Carla J Easton today! We discussed her work on Since Yesterday documentary & her ongoing research & planned archive with Scottish Music Centre —DIY culture, feminism, care, & overlooked stories, an inspiring chat!
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Delighted to welcome musician, filmmaker, & @sgsah.bsky.social PhD researcher Carla J Easton today! We discussed her work on Since Yesterday documentary & her ongoing research & planned archive with Scottish Music Centre —DIY culture, feminism, care, & overlooked stories, an inspiring chat!
Timeline post 51 – SPT Hillhead Subway Mural Unveiled & Every Short Story 1951–2012 is published, collecting all Alasdair Gray’s short fiction. That year, his 7ft x 40ft Hillhead Subway mural—crafted with Nichol Wheatley & team—transforms Glasgow’s West End station.
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Timeline post 51 – SPT Hillhead Subway Mural Unveiled & Every Short Story 1951–2012 is published, collecting all Alasdair Gray’s short fiction. That year, his 7ft x 40ft Hillhead Subway mural—crafted with Nichol Wheatley & team—transforms Glasgow’s West End station.
Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social visited Bellahouston Academy with The Travelling Archive today📚✨ Working with Miss Donnelly on new biography-writing materials inspired by Alasdair Gray. New resource & CPD launching next year!
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social visited Bellahouston Academy with The Travelling Archive today📚✨ Working with Miss Donnelly on new biography-writing materials inspired by Alasdair Gray. New resource & CPD launching next year!
Timeline 50- 2010 – A Life in Pictures published by @canongate.co.uk, a vivid pictorial autobiography of Gray’s life &art. That year also saw Collected Verse, the founding of The Alasdair Gray Foundation, & completion of the May Hooper portraits.
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Timeline 50- 2010 – A Life in Pictures published by @canongate.co.uk, a vivid pictorial autobiography of Gray’s life &art. That year also saw Collected Verse, the founding of The Alasdair Gray Foundation, & completion of the May Hooper portraits.
📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @aowensarchive.bsky.social exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by Creative Scotland. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.com, Link on website to application brief & criteria✍️
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @aowensarchive.bsky.social exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by Creative Scotland. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.com, Link on website to application brief & criteria✍️
🌟 Thrilled to announce our 2026 Creative Commission (with Creative Writing at The Uni of Strathclyde): the brilliant RACHELLE ATALLA! 🎉 The award-winning Scottish–Egyptian author + screenwriter will create new work inspired by Alasdair Gray. More info via our site! #AlasdairGray #RachelleAtalla
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🌟 Thrilled to announce our 2026 Creative Commission (with Creative Writing at The Uni of Strathclyde): the brilliant RACHELLE ATALLA! 🎉 The award-winning Scottish–Egyptian author + screenwriter will create new work inspired by Alasdair Gray. More info via our site! #AlasdairGray #RachelleAtalla
We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
🎃 Happy Halloween! 👹
Today we’re exploring Alasdair Gray’s devil motif — a symbol that is a mirror of our fears, failures & corrupt systems. In Lanark, hell is life itself—where the author, like the devil, creates, controls & torments. “Hell is not elsewhere — it’s the world we build for ourselves.”
Today we’re exploring Alasdair Gray’s devil motif — a symbol that is a mirror of our fears, failures & corrupt systems. In Lanark, hell is life itself—where the author, like the devil, creates, controls & torments. “Hell is not elsewhere — it’s the world we build for ourselves.”
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🎃 Happy Halloween! 👹
Today we’re exploring Alasdair Gray’s devil motif — a symbol that is a mirror of our fears, failures & corrupt systems. In Lanark, hell is life itself—where the author, like the devil, creates, controls & torments. “Hell is not elsewhere — it’s the world we build for ourselves.”
Today we’re exploring Alasdair Gray’s devil motif — a symbol that is a mirror of our fears, failures & corrupt systems. In Lanark, hell is life itself—where the author, like the devil, creates, controls & torments. “Hell is not elsewhere — it’s the world we build for ourselves.”
On this day, Oct 30, 1984, 1982, Janine was published. Alasdair Gray’s darkly comic, experimental second novel follows Jock McLeish—alone, drunk, fantasizing, and confronting his failures. A shocking, brilliant portrait of desire and despair.
October 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
On this day, Oct 30, 1984, 1982, Janine was published. Alasdair Gray’s darkly comic, experimental second novel follows Jock McLeish—alone, drunk, fantasizing, and confronting his failures. A shocking, brilliant portrait of desire and despair.
Timeline #49: 2009 – A Gray Playbook Published: the first anthology of Gray’s plays, featuring The Fall of Kelvin Walker, Mavis Belfrage, McGrotty & Ludmilla, Working Legs, four one-act comedies, & excerpts from the unmade Lanark film. New edition by @luathpress.bsky.social coming Feb 2026.
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Timeline #49: 2009 – A Gray Playbook Published: the first anthology of Gray’s plays, featuring The Fall of Kelvin Walker, Mavis Belfrage, McGrotty & Ludmilla, Working Legs, four one-act comedies, & excerpts from the unmade Lanark film. New edition by @luathpress.bsky.social coming Feb 2026.
Next in our Timeline Series No.48: 2008 – DE ROSA 🎶
Alasdair illustrated the cover for De Rosa’s 2009 album Prevention, a stunning portrait featuring his iconic green chair. Now part of the Estate owned collection which AGA cares for.
Alasdair illustrated the cover for De Rosa’s 2009 album Prevention, a stunning portrait featuring his iconic green chair. Now part of the Estate owned collection which AGA cares for.
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Next in our Timeline Series No.48: 2008 – DE ROSA 🎶
Alasdair illustrated the cover for De Rosa’s 2009 album Prevention, a stunning portrait featuring his iconic green chair. Now part of the Estate owned collection which AGA cares for.
Alasdair illustrated the cover for De Rosa’s 2009 album Prevention, a stunning portrait featuring his iconic green chair. Now part of the Estate owned collection which AGA cares for.
Fantastic to welcome Boy 313’s Paul McGuigan and Paul Murray to the archive today! McGuigan is a renowned Scottish director and executive producer, and Murray brings over 20 years of UK and international TV experience.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Fantastic to welcome Boy 313’s Paul McGuigan and Paul Murray to the archive today! McGuigan is a renowned Scottish director and executive producer, and Murray brings over 20 years of UK and international TV experience.
‘The City’ exhibition webinar DATE CHANGE! 6th November at 6.30pm, sign up via Eventbrite, link in bio.
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
‘The City’ exhibition webinar DATE CHANGE! 6th November at 6.30pm, sign up via Eventbrite, link in bio.
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Join us for Alasdair & Others, launching with writer Willy Maley in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social at the ARC, University of Glasgow — 18 Nov 2025, 4–6pm. Booking via Eventbrite. #alasdairgray #uofg
October 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Join us for Alasdair & Others, launching with writer Willy Maley in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social at the ARC, University of Glasgow — 18 Nov 2025, 4–6pm. Booking via Eventbrite. #alasdairgray #uofg