Marie Harnett is a London-based artist who is best known for her astonishingly intricate photo-realist pencil drawings of film stills, which she selects from trailers, watched, often online.

In this episode of New Arrivals, a series of podcasts introducing the artists behind some of the recent additions to the Scottish collection, Harnett joins Curator Stephanie Straine to discuss the artist's astonishing series of works based on stills selected from the Brazilian film Heleno.

Peter Doig is one of the most exciting painters working today. He uses remembered and found images, often in photographic form, to help him express moods and experiences that only come alive through the act of painting itself through the use of forms and colour combinations as much abstract as representational.

The National Galleries of Scotland is thrilled to welcome Doig's work At the Edge of Town to the collection.

In this episode of New Arrivals, a series of podcasts introducing the artists behind some of the recent additions to the Scottish collection, Doig and Curator Keith Hartley discuss the work. Visit the Galleries website to view the works discussed in the episode.

Bachelorette is typical of France-Lise McGurn’s intuitive way of making paintings. Populated with figures drawn from her imagination, she worked out the composition on the two panels as she went, using a process of layering, erasing and reworking. 

The work entered the National Galleries of Scotland collection in 2021, funded with a donation from Denise Coates CBE.

In this episode of New Arrivals, a series of podcasts introducing the artists behind some of the recent additions to the Scottish collection, McGurn and Curator Lucy Askew discuss the atmospheric, large-scale work which was completed in the artists's Glasgow studio during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.