The Scottish Gallery Press has launched a new small-format hardback book on Mark Hearld (b.1974) to accompany his exhibition at The Scottish Gallery, opening 28 November 2025.
Collage con Brio! celebrates a year of extraordinary creativity including an Edinburgh residency and his tapestry collaboration with Dovecot Studios, which saw a fruitful period in which Damsel, Brio’s pup, joined the family.
This publication offers a glimpse into one of the UK’s most creative lives, an artist whose work and life are inseparable. Within these pages, the reader will find an artist whose life is lived in full colour, where dogs, birds, and the rhythm of the everyday are woven into the very fabric of his art.
Founded in 2024, The Scottish Gallery Press is an independent publishing imprint dedicated to creating beautiful, small-format hardback books that bring The Scottish Gallery’s unique artistic history to life. Working closely with contemporary artists alongside the Gallery’s extensive historical archive, the Press offers a creative platform for artists, writers, and ideas, while also celebrating the rich legacy of Scottish art.
Designed to be collectible, affordable, and accessible, these carefully crafted books are intended as thoughtful introductions to artists and their work. Combining scholarship, storytelling and strong visual identity, The Scottish Gallery Press reflects The Scottish Gallery’s longstanding commitment to championing art, artists, and publishing of lasting value.
About Mark Hearld
Mark Hearld has an unbridled passion for making, and his extraordinary creativity leads to collaborative projects with artists and traditional craft makers across multiple disciplines. Collage is central to Mark Hearld’s artistic output, not only as a medium but as a process that is firmly rooted in twentieth-century art. Collage was a technique used by Matisse, Picasso and John Piper to introduce abstraction into their images. Mark similarly uses this means of abstraction, combined with his traditional academic training and careful observation, to inform his creativity.
