Background
Alasdair Taylor was born in Ross-shire and trained as an artist at the Glasgow School of Art, subsequently living in Denmark and Glasgow.
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Alasdair Taylor
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Career
In March 2005 he suffered a stroke and had to leave his home. He died in 2007.
Taylor also featured in Portrait of a painter, "the story of an artist.. who persists in his painting though he remains unrecognized and unrewarded", in Gray"s 1985 short story anthology Lean Tales, co-written with James Kelman and Agnes Owens. He was also among those whose profile as visual artists Gray attempted to raise in his collaborative 5 Scottish Artists exhibition in 1986.
The Two Alasdairs was an exhibition which ran at the Glasgow School of Art"s Mackintosh Gallery from 22 November 2008 to 10 January 2009.
The exhibition included a television interview with Taylor by British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland"s West. Gordon Smith (in the arts television series "Scope" in 1974). 5 Scottish Artists" Retrospective Show - McLellan Art Galleries, Glasgow, and Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1986
Alasdair Taylor, a Retrospective - Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, 2007
The Two Alasdairs: Alasdair Gray & Alasdair Taylor - Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, November 2008 to January 2009.
