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
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we share Tareq al-Karmy’s poem Not Only Rivers, translated by Alasdair Gray for A Bird Is Not a Stone, featuring translations of both established & emerging Palestinian poets translated by 24 Scottish writers.
✨ 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. ✨
💫 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…
Celebrating Morag McAlpine’s birthday and her anniversary with Alasdair today. Her card, now in Morag’s Museum, reflects their life, love, and creative partnership. Learn more in our Alasdair & Others biography series, book a free tour to find out more!
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Celebrating Morag McAlpine’s birthday and her anniversary with Alasdair today. Her card, now in Morag’s Museum, reflects their life, love, and creative partnership. Learn more in our Alasdair & Others biography series, book a free tour to find out more!
Next is timeline post 56: 2020 — The Alasdair Gray Archive is established. After Gray’s passing, @sorchadallas.bsky.social worked quickly to protect his legacy, creating a free public archive that preserves his work and shares his stories. 📸 Fiona Watson.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Next is timeline post 56: 2020 — The Alasdair Gray Archive is established. After Gray’s passing, @sorchadallas.bsky.social worked quickly to protect his legacy, creating a free public archive that preserves his work and shares his stories. 📸 Fiona Watson.
Delighted to host Inverclyde Academy’s N5 Art & Design class exploring Alasdair Gray’s Cowcaddens Streetscape. They used our study guide, explored archive materials and visited local sites. Get in touch to arrange a visit!
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Delighted to host Inverclyde Academy’s N5 Art & Design class exploring Alasdair Gray’s Cowcaddens Streetscape. They used our study guide, explored archive materials and visited local sites. Get in touch to arrange a visit!
✨ 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.
Thank you to the Campbells for donating Alasdair’s hard hat used while painting the Oran Mor mural! It will sit beautifully with our archive photos. Have any Alasdair Gray items to donate? Please get in touch!
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thank you to the Campbells for donating Alasdair’s hard hat used while painting the Oran Mor mural! It will sit beautifully with our archive photos. Have any Alasdair Gray items to donate? Please get in touch!
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
On Tuesday, we welcomed 2nd-year Printmaking & Painting students from GSA, led by Cole Collins. ✨ We explored our collection, focusing on the ledger and research, sparking discussion on their own practice. 🏡💛 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive #gsafacs
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
On Tuesday, we welcomed 2nd-year Printmaking & Painting students from GSA, led by Cole Collins. ✨ We explored our collection, focusing on the ledger and research, sparking discussion on their own practice. 🏡💛 #alasdairgray #thealasdairgrayarchive #gsafacs
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.
Entry 55: 2019 – ALASDAIR’S DEATH.
In 2019 Alasdair received the Saltire Society’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, 28 years after winning Scottish Book of the Year for Lanark. He died on 29 Dec, a day after his 85th birthday, leaving a lasting legacy. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
In 2019 Alasdair received the Saltire Society’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, 28 years after winning Scottish Book of the Year for Lanark. He died on 29 Dec, a day after his 85th birthday, leaving a lasting legacy. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Entry 55: 2019 – ALASDAIR’S DEATH.
In 2019 Alasdair received the Saltire Society’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, 28 years after winning Scottish Book of the Year for Lanark. He died on 29 Dec, a day after his 85th birthday, leaving a lasting legacy. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
In 2019 Alasdair received the Saltire Society’s first Lifetime Achievement Award, 28 years after winning Scottish Book of the Year for Lanark. He died on 29 Dec, a day after his 85th birthday, leaving a lasting legacy. Photo by Alan Dimmick.
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
We welcomed Glasgow’s Lord Provost, Jacqueline McLaren, to the archive today. It was great to show how we’re reconnecting Alasdair Gray’s work with the Canal Ward and hear her memories—she even helped identify lost local buildings in our collection!
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We welcomed Glasgow’s Lord Provost, Jacqueline McLaren, to the archive today. It was great to show how we’re reconnecting Alasdair Gray’s work with the Canal Ward and hear her memories—she even helped identify lost local buildings in our collection!
Entry 54: 2018 – Hell is published by @canongate.co.uk. Alasdair Gray’s first Dante translation appears, later joined by Purgatory (2019) and Paradise (2020). A modern, accessible, richly illustrated trilogy bringing Dante vividly to life.
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Entry 54: 2018 – Hell is published by @canongate.co.uk. Alasdair Gray’s first Dante translation appears, later joined by Purgatory (2019) and Paradise (2020). A modern, accessible, richly illustrated trilogy bringing Dante vividly to life.
Lovely Saturday tour group yesterday — our last weekend tour of 2025! ✨
We still have spots open for our Friday tours on Nov 21, Nov 28, and Dec 12.
Book now via email, DM, or Eventbrite (link in bio)!
We still have spots open for our Friday tours on Nov 21, Nov 28, and Dec 12.
Book now via email, DM, or Eventbrite (link in bio)!
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lovely Saturday tour group yesterday — our last weekend tour of 2025! ✨
We still have spots open for our Friday tours on Nov 21, Nov 28, and Dec 12.
Book now via email, DM, or Eventbrite (link in bio)!
We still have spots open for our Friday tours on Nov 21, Nov 28, and Dec 12.
Book now via email, DM, or Eventbrite (link in bio)!
✨ 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!