Glasgow Girls: Resist Much, Obey Little

40 years of painting and friendship!  

This is an exhibition of three painters Rosemary Beaton, Lesley Burr, and Alison Harper who all graduated from Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s. Known as the ‘Glasgow Girls’ - a term referring to the dynamic movement of female artists emerging from Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s corresponding to the group called ‘The Glasgow Boys’, these groups of painters were part of a resurgence in expressive figurative painting to be found internationally but predominantly in Scotland, Italy, and New York in the eighties and early nineties.

The exhibition curates artwork from over three decades of their art practice, 1985 – 2023 encompassing and interpreting the theme of nourishment and the essential nature of making art and encouraging creativity. The three artists have exhibited many times over the years as a group and in various combinations with other artists in London, Glasgow, Leicester and Shetland Museums and Orkney.