Sound and Vision: Iain Clark and Alan Riach in Conversation

As part of the Glasgow Doors Open Day Festival programme, come along to this engaging and interactive event where Iain Clark joins writer and academic Alan Riach for a conversation about their respective practices.

Sound and Vision will be a poetry and photography face off.

The poet Professor Alan Riach will respond to the images of visual artist Iain Clark’s Love Letter to Glasgow currently on display in ARC. The pair will share their passion for Glasgow, the city that has inspired both their artistic practices.

A Love Letter to Glasgow can be viewed in the ARC's exhibition space from 10 - 22 September.

Monday - Friday, 08:30 - 19:30

Saturdays and Sundays,10:00 - 16:00.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of John Shaw, alumni of Glasgow University, a proud Glaswegian and patron of the arts.

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About Iain Clark

Iain Clark is a practicing photographic artist whose work is in the permanent collection of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery and in numerous private collections in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and India. Iain is recognised for his unique portraits. It is his passion for people that has led to his ascent as an in-demand portrait artist. Iain’s technique has been described by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as “sitting somewhere between photography and painting”. The camera and the photograph are only the beginning of the creative process, and the subsequent manipulation of the image creates a finished portrait which is intended to capture the essential person.

About Alan Riach

Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1957, Alan Riach holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, where he studied English as an undergraduate, and Glasgow, where he completed his doctorate in the Department of Scottish Literature. He worked in New Zealand from 1986 to December 2000, where he was Associate Professor of English and a Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, specialising in twentieth-century literature, teaching Scottish, Irish, American and post-colonial literatures, modern poetry and creative writing. His critical writing has appeared in numerous books and journals in Britain, New Zealand and internationally.

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