Sorcha Dallas
@sorchadallas.bsky.social
Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
A festive crossover I never knew I needed: Charles Dickens meets K-Pop Demon Hunters. A Cottiers Christmas Carol was an absolute blast, with Fairy Fabulous stealing the show. On until 30th December.
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A festive crossover I never knew I needed: Charles Dickens meets K-Pop Demon Hunters. A Cottiers Christmas Carol was an absolute blast, with Fairy Fabulous stealing the show. On until 30th December.
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Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social spoke at Creative Scotland’s Go See Share webinar today on her research into new financial models for artists’ archives, exploring UK examples to support sustainable, artist-led futures in Scotland.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social spoke at Creative Scotland’s Go See Share webinar today on her research into new financial models for artists’ archives, exploring UK examples to support sustainable, artist-led futures in Scotland.
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New! Alasdair Gray Archive x Aoife Cawley ✨
Limited-edition scarf + stickers now available! Inspired by Gray’s iconic Scottish motifs. Order via our shop—ships before Christmas. Don’t miss out! Head to our online shop to buy now, 100% of funds raised will support our 2026 programme!
Limited-edition scarf + stickers now available! Inspired by Gray’s iconic Scottish motifs. Order via our shop—ships before Christmas. Don’t miss out! Head to our online shop to buy now, 100% of funds raised will support our 2026 programme!
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New! Alasdair Gray Archive x Aoife Cawley ✨
Limited-edition scarf + stickers now available! Inspired by Gray’s iconic Scottish motifs. Order via our shop—ships before Christmas. Don’t miss out! Head to our online shop to buy now, 100% of funds raised will support our 2026 programme!
Limited-edition scarf + stickers now available! Inspired by Gray’s iconic Scottish motifs. Order via our shop—ships before Christmas. Don’t miss out! Head to our online shop to buy now, 100% of funds raised will support our 2026 programme!
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What a year! ✨ Thanks for being part of an incredible 2025 at AGA. 🤍 From 4,800+ tour visitors to new commissions, events & trustees, it’s been huge. Your support makes it all possible — see our 2025 Annual Review, now on our website! ✨
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
What a year! ✨ Thanks for being part of an incredible 2025 at AGA. 🤍 From 4,800+ tour visitors to new commissions, events & trustees, it’s been huge. Your support makes it all possible — see our 2025 Annual Review, now on our website! ✨
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💫 AGA X Aoife Cawley 💫
Launching 02.12.25!
Limited-edition cosy, stylish pieces inspired by Gray. 100% of sales support our 2026 programme. Perfect for you or the Gray fan in your life this Christmas. 5 more sleeps…
Launching 02.12.25!
Limited-edition cosy, stylish pieces inspired by Gray. 100% of sales support our 2026 programme. Perfect for you or the Gray fan in your life this Christmas. 5 more sleeps…
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
💫 AGA X Aoife Cawley 💫
Launching 02.12.25!
Limited-edition cosy, stylish pieces inspired by Gray. 100% of sales support our 2026 programme. Perfect for you or the Gray fan in your life this Christmas. 5 more sleeps…
Launching 02.12.25!
Limited-edition cosy, stylish pieces inspired by Gray. 100% of sales support our 2026 programme. Perfect for you or the Gray fan in your life this Christmas. 5 more sleeps…
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✨ Born today in 1757, William Blake shaped Alasdair Gray’s vision. From Lanark to his art, Gray echoed Blake’s fusion of word and image — even reimagining Infant Joy as his Brain Baby, a symbol of life’s cycle. ✨
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
✨ Born today in 1757, William Blake shaped Alasdair Gray’s vision. From Lanark to his art, Gray echoed Blake’s fusion of word and image — even reimagining Infant Joy as his Brain Baby, a symbol of life’s cycle. ✨
So happy I got to see Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders — and to have the most incredible personal tour from curator/writer Damian Barr today at Charleston Trust, Lewes. ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So happy I got to see Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders — and to have the most incredible personal tour from curator/writer Damian Barr today at Charleston Trust, Lewes. ❤️
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✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
✨ Emerging animators! ✨
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
AGA & @canongate.co.uk are commissioning 4 short animations for early 2026. Fee £500. Apply by 6 Dec 2025: CV, brief approach + 2–3 samples to [email protected]. Results by 15 Dec.
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First Alasdair & Others event at GU ARC with Willy Maley, in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social exploring Alasdair Gray’s creative networks and unveiling Willy’s new archival box. Thanks to all who joined—video coming soon. Photos by @alasdairwatson.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
First Alasdair & Others event at GU ARC with Willy Maley, in conversation with @rodgeglass.bsky.social exploring Alasdair Gray’s creative networks and unveiling Willy’s new archival box. Thanks to all who joined—video coming soon. Photos by @alasdairwatson.bsky.social
This memoir is a poetic, unruly, and deeply honest portrait of what it was like to be the only openly queer rock band member of the 1990s and how this life was lived at full tilt, recommend!
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This memoir is a poetic, unruly, and deeply honest portrait of what it was like to be the only openly queer rock band member of the 1990s and how this life was lived at full tilt, recommend!
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Our custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social shares how we grow and diversify audiences online for Arts Marketing Association Digital Marketing Day tmrw—using creative collaboration to make the archive accessible, echoing Alasdair Gray’s belief in collective creativity.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social shares how we grow and diversify audiences online for Arts Marketing Association Digital Marketing Day tmrw—using creative collaboration to make the archive accessible, echoing Alasdair Gray’s belief in collective creativity.
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The obituary on Elspeth King by our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social will be in tomorrow’s @theguardian.com paper if anyone would like to read a physical version
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The obituary on Elspeth King by our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social will be in tomorrow’s @theguardian.com paper if anyone would like to read a physical version
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A beautifully written tribute by @sorchadallas.bsky.social for the incredible Elspeth King-- a true champion of Scottish Radical histories, including women's histories and the untold stories of Scottish Suffrage.
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A beautifully written tribute by @sorchadallas.bsky.social for the incredible Elspeth King-- a true champion of Scottish Radical histories, including women's histories and the untold stories of Scottish Suffrage.
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A full and fulsome obituary for 'our' Elspeth, from Sorcha Dallas Gray at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A full and fulsome obituary for 'our' Elspeth, from Sorcha Dallas Gray at the @agrayarchive.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
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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
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📢 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
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🎥 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
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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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] for free pack! #Glasgow850 #CfE
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Deadline Thursday! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Deadline Thursday! thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
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🌟 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
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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.
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Timeline 47:In 2007, Gray met @sorchadallas.bsky.social, who revived interest in his visual art. She curated key shows, led major commissions, and founded The Alasdair Gray Archive—ensuring his legacy remains vibrant and widely celebrated.
October 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Timeline 47:In 2007, Gray met @sorchadallas.bsky.social, who revived interest in his visual art. She curated key shows, led major commissions, and founded The Alasdair Gray Archive—ensuring his legacy remains vibrant and widely celebrated.
Took the kids to explore the hauntingly beautiful ruins of St Peter’s Seminary near Cardross yesterday. Once a Roman Catholic seminary designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it’s now a modernist relic — described by Docomomo International as a “building of world significance.”
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Took the kids to explore the hauntingly beautiful ruins of St Peter’s Seminary near Cardross yesterday. Once a Roman Catholic seminary designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it’s now a modernist relic — described by Docomomo International as a “building of world significance.”
Sorley has been so excited for Celebrity Traitors that he decided to portrait them all, personal highlights are Alan Carr and Lucy Beaumont 😉😂
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Sorley has been so excited for Celebrity Traitors that he decided to portrait them all, personal highlights are Alan Carr and Lucy Beaumont 😉😂