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#ArtofGray Alasdair Gray's Celestial Ceiling today

#ArtofGray Alasdair Gray's Celestial Ceiling today, and some wonderful shots of Alasdair and his team at work in the early days of Òran Mór ✨ We're privileged to have such an important part of Alasdair's legacy here at Òran Mór - our very own Sistine Chapel! - and we have the fondest memories not only of watching Alasdair work, but of him in our bar, large whisky in hand, laughing his big hearty laugh and chatting to staff, tourists and academics alike - a true raconteur! #RememberingAlasdair #GrayDay 📷 @markwildphotography (Auditorium ceiling - final photo)

Gray your day! Today, on the first ever #GrayDay

Gray your day! Today, on the first ever #GrayDay @thealasdairgrayarchive + @canongatebooks have curated a wonderful programme of events celebrating the life and work of Scotland's favourite polymath Alasdair Gray... 🎧 Gray Matters - a new podcast launches today 📚 Gray of the Day - daily readings, by friends and admirers, from Gray's seminal novel Lanark 🎬 A Gray Day Broadcast – celebrating Alasdair Gray with Neu Reekie - an hour of readings, conversation and music - part filmed here at Òran Mór under Alasdair’s Celestial Ceiling mural!
Tonight at 7.30pm - it’s not too late to get a (free) ticket (see @thealasdairgrayarchive) 📷 @littlekatphotos #RememberingAlasdair #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #TheAlasdairGrayArchive #CanongateBooks #NeuReekie #OranMorGlasgow

Happy #GrayDay! Today we celebrate the life and

Happy #GrayDay! Today we celebrate the life and work of Alasdair Gray, on the 40th anniversary of his masterpiece, Lanark. #polymath #writer #artist #raconteur #humanist #friend

‘Where Are We From?’ ‘What Are We?’ ‘Whe

‘Where Are We From?’
‘What Are We?’
‘Where Are We Going?’ Detail of Alasdair Gray’s modern version of Gauguin’s masterpiece, Òran Mór Gallery. 📷 @markwildphotography #GrayDay #ArtofGray #AlasdairGray #PublicArt #ArtForAll #OranMorGlasgow

‘Where Are We From?’ ‘What Are We?’ ‘Whe

‘Where Are We From?’
‘What Are We?’
‘Where Are We Going?’ Detail of Alasdair Gray’s modern version of Gauguin’s masterpiece, Òran Mór Gallery. 📷 @littlekatphotos #GrayDay #ArtofGray #AlasdairGray #PublicArt #ArtForAll #OranMorGlasgow

#ArtofGray Today we are looking west to Òran Mór’s Gallery, a mezzanine level in our Auditorium and the perfect spot to view Alasdair’s work. Inspired by Gauguin’s ‘Who Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?’ Alasdair used the three wedge spaces created by our Auditorium roof beams to both pose and reply to Gauguin’s philosophical questions. Left panel - ‘Where Are We From?’ is answered ‘Life is Rooted in Death’s Republic’ Here Alasdair has painted the Tree of Life, its roots among embracing skeletons and fossilised remains of the past. The roots emerge above as the umbilical cord of a baby being lifted by a midwife (as first shown on the spine of Lanark). In the top panel a phoenix emerges from a nest in the tree, symbolising eternal life, with its head among stars spiralling out of an explosion suggesting the Big Bang. Middle panel - ‘What Are We?’ And the reply ‘Animals Who Want More Than We Need’ Mother Nature appears as a vast, calm woman sitting on the globe of the earth with Adam and Eve embracing between her feet, surrounded by civilisations most famous structures – Egyptian pyramid, Roman Colesseum, Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower and an American Space Shuttle. Below her feet creatures are caring for their young between atomic power stations, tanker, and an exploding oil rig. Alasdair added a volcano because ‘the earth too sometimes explodes’. Right panel - ‘Where Are We Going?’ Is answered, ‘Our Seed Returns to Death’s Republic’ Death is shown here as a Valkyrie on a winged black horse, thrusting a spear through the underground corpses of a man and woman. A network of roots grow from the spear surrounded by skull shaped seeds containing winged embryos. The top of the spear grows up into a tree, where a phoenix sinks into flames – an old symbol of death and resurrection, and above the phoenix, stars and silver rays converge on a Black Hole. 📷 @markwildphotography
#GrayDay #AlasdairGray #Lanark #ArtForAll #PublicArt #OranMorGlasgow

#GrayDay 📚 ‘Probably the greatest novel of th

#GrayDay 📚
‘Probably the greatest novel of the century’ Observer
The beautiful new hardback edition of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark published by @canongatebooks with new colour version of the frontispiece published by @glasgowprintstudio and Alasdair Gray to commemorate its 40th anniversary. 📷 @littlekatphotos #alasdairgray #lanark #forty #canongatebooks #glasgowprintstudio

#ArtofGray Did you know… you are greeted by Alas

#ArtofGray Did you know… you are greeted by Alasdair Gray’s artwork as soon as you enter Òran Mór? 🦁 Alasdair designed our entrance porch, and since Òran Mór is Gaelic for ‘The Great Music’ - meaning both the music of nature and of the pibroch - he painted the walls with rampant Scottish bagpipe-playing lions. The lions are made less threatening by the bagpipes they play in what Alasdair described his ‘jocular’ mural. 🌎 We also bid you welcome and goodbye in 32 languages with Alasdair’s own ‘Òran Mór Monumental’ font carved into the grey marble floor tiles. Alasdair described his script as a compromise between pure Roman (whose serifs he believed unnecessary on a large scale) and Gill sans-serif (which he thought looked too mechanical). The row of languages on the left are: Gaelic, Glaswegian, Scandinavian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Quechua, Cheroke, Inuit, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic, Kurdish, Chinese, Tibetan The rows of language on the right are: English, Welsh, Russian, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Afrikaans, Yoruba, Swahili, Xhosa, Japanese, Korean #GrayDay #AlasdairGray #Lanark #Forty #ArtForAll #PublicArt #OranMorGlasgow

🎬 A few more behind the scenes shots of @neuree

🎬 A few more behind the scenes shots of @neureekie @canongatebooks and @thealasdairgrayarchive filming A Gray Day Broadcast at Òran Mór for #GrayDay This celebration of the life and work of Alasdair Gray features special appearances from Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Ewen Bremner, Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines) + many more and will be broadcast this Thursday 25th Feb, the 40th anniversary of Lanark, and the very first Gray Day! Snap your (free) tickets up at grayday.info/broadcast 📷 @littlekatphotos #GrayDay #AlasdairGray #Lanark #Forty #GrayDayBroadcast #CanongateBooks #NeuReekie #TheAlasdairGrayArchive

🎬 Behind the scenes with @neureekie @canongateb

🎬 Behind the scenes with @neureekie @canongatebooks and @thealasdairgrayarchive filming A Gray Day Broadcast at Òran Mór for #GrayDay This celebration of the life and work of Alasdair Gray features special appearances from Ali Smith, Rodge Glass, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Ewen Bremner, Gavin Mitchell, Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines) + many more and will be broadcast this Thursday 25th Feb, the 40th anniversary of Lanark, and the very first Gray Day! Snap your (free) tickets up at grayday.info/broadcast 📷 @littlekatphotos #GrayDay #AlasdairGray #Lanark #Forty #GrayDayBroadcast #CanongateBooks #NeuReekie #TheAlasdairGrayArchive

#ArtofGray Òran Mór's Auditorium ceiling - a hea

#ArtofGray Òran Mór's Auditorium ceiling - a heaven of planets, moons and stars. 🪐 Today we're looking west, along the Auditorium central roof beam covered with many tiny stars suggesting the Milky Way. Five planets are equally spaced along it, from east to west these are the biggest – Saturn and Jupiter – dwindling to Mars, Venus and (smallest above the Gallery at the western Byres Road end) Mercury. 🌙 Between dark blue, black and silver clouds in each panel of the lower ceiling 6 moons appear, waning from full to crescent on one side, waxing from crescent to full on the other. 📷 @markwildphotography #GrayDay #AlasdairGray #Lanark #ArtForAll #PublicArt #OranmorGlasgow

✨Cancer / the Great Bear / Scorpio / Sagittarius

✨Cancer / the Great Bear / Scorpio / Sagittarius / Virgo / the Dragon ✨ #ArtofGray details from Alasdair Gray’s Celestial Ceiling mural at Òran Mór #AlasdairGray #GrayDay #Lanark #ArtForAll #PublicArt #OranMorGlasgow

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'Let Us Flourish by Telling the Truth' Alasdair Gray's adaptation of Glasgow's motto on Òran Mór's Eastern gable beneath Bella Caledonia. #GrayDay 📷@littlekatphotos pic.twitter.com/BzW861v5RZ

5:58 pm · 25th February 2021

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This evening's A Gray Day Broadcast hosted by @NeuReekie with @alasdairgrayarchive + @canongatebooks features so many special appearances... @rodgeglass @DameDeniseMina @IrvineWelsh @GavsterNo1 @WriterYann + many many more! 📷@littlekatphotos pic.twitter.com/tBEKejjppl

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