I Belong to Glasgow: Oscar Marzaroli and Joan Eardley

An illustrated talk and reading by Norman Bissell

Norman Bissell will talk and read extracts from his new book Living on an Island Expressing the Earth about growing up in Partick in the Fifties and will tell how Oscar Marzaroli came from Italy and Joan Eardley came from England to live and work as artists in Glasgow and made a huge contribution to the culture of Scotland. They studied at Glasgow School of Art and became friends when Joan painted children and street life in her Townhead studio and Oscar took thousands of photographs which recorded the many changes in the city, especially in Gorbals in the Sixties and Seventies.

Followed by a Q+A, discussion and refreshments.

*Doors open from 6.15pm for 6.30pm start. Please note: all donations can be redeemed against the cost of the new book.

Special Offer: buy a signed and dedicated copy of Living on an Island Expressing the Earth for £9.99 and get a free copy of Stravaig journal, normal cost £3.

Image: Oscar Marzaroli, Joan Eardley and Angus Neil, at Joan’s cottage in Catterline in 1963. Photo by Anne Marzaroli © Oscar Marzaroli Collection, courtesy Street Level Photoworks

Norman Bissell is the author of the poetry collection Slate, Sea and Sky a journey from Glasgow to the Isle of Luing which contains 32 photographs by Oscar Marzaroli, and Barnhill a Novel about George Orwell's last years on Jura where he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, both published by Luath Press.

A former principal teacher of history and EIS Area Officer, he is the Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics which is based on the Isle of Luing in Argyll.

Host or Publisher Scottish Centre for Geopoetics