FOUR ARTISTS - NEIL MACDONALD PAI RGI RSW, ALICE MCMURROUGH PAI RGI RSW, SANDY MURPHY RGI PAI, JACQUELINE ORR RSW RGI PAI

16 October - 13 November 2022

Alice McMurrough PAI RGI RSW

Alice McMurrough studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1978. She has won many awards including the James Torrance Award at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts in 2011, the Joe Hargan Award at the Paisley Art Institute and the Anne Stevenson Memorial Award from East Dunbartonshire Council in 2012 and in 2013 the Dalrymple Award at the inaugural Maclaurin Annual Fine Art Exhibition.

She says: 'I remember realizing that the number five was red and tasted of apples. I was in primary one and after school I would play in the bluebell wood and in our garden shed. Ever since then I see connections in experience.
My artwork is a tool to understanding self and the surrounding world free form chronological time and place. I work with distorted and symbolic form. I create from memories of particular events and general influences: family legends, cultural myths and religious fables.
The resulting images often display theatrical characters on stage- like sets, inviting open narratives and subjective interpretations. My work revels in the absence of an authoritative reading. I invite the viewer to engage with the paintings and derive their own interpretation.'

She was elected member of the Royal Glasgow Institute, Paisley Art Institute and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 2013. She is a Diplomate of the Paisley Art Institute, Artist Member of the Glasgow Art Club and Associate Artist Member of Hospitalfield Alumni Association.

Since the 1990s she organises, with her husband Neil Macdonald, Painting Holidays in Scotland, Spain, Italy and France.