Alison Watt, 'Still', 2003-4. Oil on canvas (4-part work), 12ft x 12ft. Installed at the Memorial Chapel, Old St Paul's Church, Edinburgh.
© Image courtesy the artist and the Ingleby Gallery.

Alison Watt 2006-8

Supported by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation.

Born in Greenock in 1965, Alison Watt is a painter who studied at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2000 she became the youngest artist to be offered a solo exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Alison exhibited most recently during the 2004 Edinburgh Festival, installing a monumental 12ft painting in the memorial chapel of Old St Paul's for which she received the A.C.E award for art in a religious space in 2005.

Her recent work demonstrates a deep fascination with the possibilities of the suggestive power of fabric. A childhood trip to London to visit the National Gallery resulted in a lifelong admiration for Ingres's great portrait of 'Madame Moitessier', a picture that has been a constant source of inspiration for her.

Other paintings in the collection that have attracted her interest during her first year at the Gallery include works by Zurbarán, Jacques-Louis David and Jacopo de'Barbari.

Her new work is on display in the Sunley Room exhibition 'Alison Watt: Phantom' which runs from 12 March - 22 June 2008.

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