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Episode 4

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Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. He explores how it has left a remarkable legacy over the last century through wrestling with questions of identity.

The climactic episode of the series explores how, over the last 100 years, Scottish art has wrestled as never before with questions of identity and exploded like a visual firecracker of different ideas and styles. During the last century, Scottish artists embroiled themselves with some of the most exciting and dynamic art movements ever seen - provoking, participating and creating stimulating works of art that have left an extraordinary legacy.

Lachlan Goudie discovers how artists such as William McCance attempted to bring about a Scottish renaissance in the visual arts, while a creative diaspora of artists such as Alan Davie and William Gear would court controversy and play vital roles in the revolutions of postwar art.

Long before the 'Glasgow Miracle', the Glasgow School of Art was responsible for upholding a very different kind of tradition, of which Lachlan's father was proud to be a part. He discovers how artists such as Joan Eardley helped to bring the city to life, just as John Bellany did for the fishing villages of the east coast. Rebels such as Bruce McLean help explain how conceptual art would come to play such a large role in the Scottish art of today, and Lachlan meets one of the world's most expensive living artists, Peter Doig, to delve into the complexities of what it actually means to be a Scottish artist in today's market-dominated art world. He finishes his epic journey on the Isle of Lewis with a powerful call to arms for the continued relevance of Scottish art today.

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Last on

Thu 26 May 2022 01:20

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Music Played

  • Chilly Gonzales

    Prelude to a Feud

  • Four Tet

    Circling

  • Hildur GuΓ°nadΓ³ttir

    Into Warmer Air

  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    Evidence

  • Django Django

    Shake and Tremble

  • Nils Frahm

    Says

  • Jon Hopkins

    The Wider Sun

  • Jon Hopkins

    Vessel

  • Richard Hawley

    Last Orders

  • King Creosote

    A Prairie Tale

  • Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg

    Je t'aime...moi non plus

  • Mogwai

    Heard About You Last Night

  • Portishead

    Wandering Star

  • Josef K

    Fun N Frenzy

  • Dustin O’Halloran

    An Ending, A Beginning

  • Robert Moran

    Ten Miles High Over Albania

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Lachlan Goudie
Series Producer Matthew Springford
Series Producer Pauline Law
Executive Producer David Harron
Producer Maurice O'Brien
Director Maurice O'Brien

Broadcasts

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