framed dimensions: 41 x 47 cm
Port Dundas is an area of Glasgow north of the Clyde, on the Forth Clyde Canal, not far from Eardley’s studio in Townhead. The Eighteenth Century canal was a vital part of the city’s industrialisation, with the chimney stacks for distilling and power generation forming a distinctive part of the city skyline at the Port Dundas terminus. When Joan made her painting the area was in general decline and she has captured the tumult of industrial architecture, dereliction and a dirty sky with her distinctive brush strokes and palette.
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.
