Art Projects - Plastic Pastorals

Gregor Laird's Plastic Pastorals, his third formal exhibition revels in combining traditional countryside vistas with retina-scorching colours led by a designer's aesthetic. His diverse career history as a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, make-up artist and DJ are all synthesised into a style that gives a wink and a knowing nod to the humorous graffiti of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the cool detachment of Ed Ruscha.

'Bonnie Scotland' is often fetishized into a romantic ideal, such as the canvases by the 18th Century Romantics or postcards by the likes of Colin Prior. It is this unrealistic vision that Laird takes as his inspiration for 'Plastic Pastorals'. This set of images are as flat, glossy and kitsch as anything sold in Scottish tourist shops, except these illustrations mix an imagined airbrushed arcadia with a very real sense of urban decay.

Exhibition runs: Tue 7 Oct - Sun 9 Nov 2008
Opening party: Mon 6th Oct, 6pm
Q! Gallery
87 - 89 Saltmarket, Glasgow
Tue - Sat; 11am - 5pm, Free Entry

Plastic Pastorals 1
Plastic Pastorals 2
Plastic Pastorals 3
Plastic Pastorals 4