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.

Leonora Carrington’s Portrait of Max Ernst was probably painted in 1939 and entered the National Galleries of Scotland collection in 2018 thanks to the generous assistance of the Henry and Sula Walton Fund and Art Fund. 

In this episode of New Arrivals, a series of podcasts introducing the artists behind some of the recent additions to the Scottish collection, Curator Patrick Elliott finds out more about Carrington’s life by speaking with her son Harold Weisz.

Joan Eardley is one of Scotland’s most popular and influential twentieth century artists. Her powerful and expressive paintings transformed her everyday surroundings, from Glasgow’s street children to the rugged Kincardineshire coastline.

The hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth was in May 2021. To mark this occasion, the National Galleries of Scotland produced this three-part audio programme in celebration of the artist’s life and work.

Painter and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie is joined by figures from the art world and beyond to try to understand better the character of this ground-breaking artist whose incredible body of work has endured long beyond her lifetime and continues to inspire new generations of artists.

In this third and final episode, Lachlan talks about Joan Eardley's choice of materials and technique with conservator Lesley Stevenson of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Also in this episode, Lachlan tries to contextualise Eardley’s work in relation to what was happening elsewhere in the world at the time with contemporary artist Jock McFadyen.

Joan Eardley is one of Scotland’s most popular and influential twentieth century artists. Her powerful and expressive paintings transformed her everyday surroundings, from Glasgow’s street children to the rugged Kincardineshire coastline.

In this episode, Lachlan is joined by Joan Eardley's niece, the Bearsden-based ceramicist Anne Morrison-Hudson and archivist Kirstie Meehan and curator Leila Riszko from the National Galleries of Scotland to ask what we know of Joan Eardley's character.

The conversation touches on the apparent contrast in Eardley’s character, as a shy, reserved person who expresses herself with such intense passion on canvas. Noting the emotional stresses of her personal life and their impact on her painting, the panel consider Eardley’s experiences as a gay woman in a time when many people of her generation were not open about their sexuality. Lachlan also asks about Eardley’s work ethic and her motivations as an artist.

Joan Eardley is one of Scotland’s most popular and influential twentieth century artists. Her powerful and expressive paintings transformed her everyday surroundings, from Glasgow’s street children to the rugged Kincardineshire coastline.

Painter and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie is joined by figures from the art world and beyond to try to understand better the character of this ground-breaking artist whose incredible body of work has endured long beyond her lifetime and continues to inspire new generations of artists.

In this episode, Lachlan explores how Joan Eardley approached the sea as a subject and the importance of the village of Catterline in the artist's life with journalist Jan Patience, artist Dawnne McGeachy and former Catterline resident Ron Stephen.