Publishing on 19th March
Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams, by Edinburgh-based Barry McGlashan (b. 1974, Aberdeen), documents the past two years of his practice, including the celebrated solo exhibition of the same name at Frestonian Gallery from the spring of 2025. Thresholds, metaphorical and literal, are an omnipresent motif in Barry McGlashan’s evocative paintings. The featured works bring viewers to the edge of lakes, to rivers and roads, and lead to the foot of mountains. Other times the viewer is inside, looking out through windows to the landscape and sky beyond. Transcending time and geography, reality and folklore, McGlashan’s dream-like and otherworldly paintings are as haunting as they are enchanting.
The publication, designed by Alice Daisy Pomfret and edited by Matt Price, also features works presented by the artist and gallery at Art SG in Singapore in early 2025, as well as documentation of The Distant Ideal, McGlashan’s first presentation at Frestonian in March 2024. With a foreword by Rollo Campbell and Matt Incledon of Frestonian Gallery, a text by McGlashan himself comprising detailed notes about his paintings, and an interview with the artist by Kathryn Lloyd, Contemporary Art Editor at The Burlington Magazine, the publication includes more than fifty of McGlashan’s delightful paintings along with details of selected works and installation photography.
Barry McGlashan – Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams is the first title in Hurtwood’s Artist & Gallery Series, presenting new, recent and selected works by a single artist working nationally and internationally today. The series is distributed in North America by ACC Art Books and internationally by Thames & Hudson.
Details
Editors: Matt Price
Designed by: Alice Daisy Pomfret
Contributors: Rollo Campbell, Matt Incledon, Barry McGlashan, Kathryn Lloyd
Size: 285 x 230 mm portrait
124 pages featuring 70 illustrations (colour)
Binding: Hardback
Printed in the UK
Published by Hurtwood
Barry McGlashan was born in 1974 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, graduating in 1996, and taught in the painting department at Gray’s between 1998 and 2005. In 2001, McGlashan was awarded The Alastair Salvesen Scholarship through the Royal Scottish Academy, by whom in 2024 he was elected academician. Examples of his work are held in numerous private and public collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; The Scottish Society, New York, USA; and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. Today, McGlashan lives and works in Edinburgh.
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