Etching, 118 x 91cm, edition of 10
Alistair Gow is a Scottish printmaker based in Glasgow. His painterly limited edition etchings and monoprints - with their characteristically vibrant palette - are rooted in observational drawing, and a passion for the process of printmaking.
Much of Alistair’s imagery is inspired by routine journeys through the parks and surroundings areas of his home town. An isolated tree, advertising billboards and a bold elephant are recent motifs, representing, for the artist, ‘clear subjects that I hope prompt the viewer, making them pause’.
This unframed etching is one of a pair large works launched by Oliver Projects Gallery at the 2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Each celebrates a tree in one of the artist’s local parks in Glasgow that he ‘has built up a particular relationship with’. ‘Turns Around in Hopes to Find’ features the artist’s characteristic unprinted area of paper to represent the tree’s leaves - or a blast of light. This technique, in Alistair’s words, ‘often creates the brightest area in the print’.
Alistair graduated with a BA Hons from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010, which included a year in Alberta, Canada. He has worked as a collaborating printmaker at Glasgow Print Studio since 2014. Notable exhibitions include regular inclusion in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, ‘Hockney to Himid’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2022) and ‘Traces Remain’ at BBA Gallery, Berlin (2025). His work is held in numerous collections, and he was the winner of both the RSA Open exhibition prize and the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, both awarded in 2024.
Etching, 118 x 91cm, edition of 10
Alistair Gow is a Scottish printmaker based in Glasgow. His painterly limited edition etchings and monoprints - with their characteristically vibrant palette - are rooted in observational drawing, and a passion for the process of printmaking.
Much of Alistair’s imagery is inspired by routine journeys through the parks and surroundings areas of his home town. An isolated tree, advertising billboards and a bold elephant are recent motifs, representing, for the artist, ‘clear subjects that I hope prompt the viewer, making them pause’.
This unframed etching is one of a pair large works launched by Oliver Projects Gallery at the 2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Each celebrates a tree in one of the artist’s local parks in Glasgow that he ‘has built up a particular relationship with’. ‘Turns Around in Hopes to Find’ features the artist’s characteristic unprinted area of paper to represent the tree’s leaves - or a blast of light. This technique, in Alistair’s words, ‘often creates the brightest area in the print’.
Alistair graduated with a BA Hons from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010, which included a year in Alberta, Canada. He has worked as a collaborating printmaker at Glasgow Print Studio since 2014. Notable exhibitions include regular inclusion in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, ‘Hockney to Himid’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2022) and ‘Traces Remain’ at BBA Gallery, Berlin (2025). His work is held in numerous collections, and he was the winner of both the RSA Open exhibition prize and the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, both awarded in 2024.
