Joan Eardley, In Context seeks to illuminate two imporant aspects of Joan Earldey. Firstly to explore how she came to paint what she did and secondly to tell the poignant story of how the example of her dedication to the life of an artist inspired a number of painted to form a loose colony at Catterline.
This exhibition catalgue includes work by Joan Eardley (1921-1963), James Cowie (1886-1956), James Morrison (b.1932), Angus Neil (1924-1992), Lilian Neilson (1938-1998).
About Joan Eardley
There is an enduring fascination for Joan Eardley far beyond her unconventional life and early death at the age of forty-two. Born in 1921 in Sussex, Joan Eardley’s family moved to Scotland in 1939 and a year later she joined the Glasgow School of Art. She found subjects in the shipyards of Clydebank and the slums of Townhead, at first the run-down tenements and buildings and later the children and streetlife around Rottenrow where the character of the people and the place became the vital subject of her work.
