130 Years
Reimagining Scott
On Thursday 11th April 2024 we had a talk by Greg Moodie.
He was introduced by our Chairperson, Dr. Lucy Wood.
Greg Moodie is the author of Cool Scots, a psychedelic reimagining of Scotland’s rich and varied past; Borrowing Burns, a semi-fictional or “factually dubious” account of the making of his series of Tam O’ Shanter murals; and three cartoon compendiums. He has also written a novel, Six Degrees of Stupidity, and published a weekly comic strip since 2012.
A fine art graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, an exhibition of his paintings, ‘Poetic Licence’, was staged at the Scottish Poetry Library in 2022 featuring ‘reimaginings’ of well-known Caledonian writers.
Since he tried to sell a fleet of Trident nuclear submarines on Ebay in 2013, his readers and viewers have become familiar with his ways.
Synopsis: Artist and writer Greg Moodie discusses his work and how he came to cross paths with Walter Scott whilst creating a series of reimaginings of notable Scottish figures for his books ‘Borrowing Burns’ and ‘Cool Scots’, as well as his exhibition of paintings, ‘Poetic Licence’. The process involved taking existing images, in this case Henry Raeburn’s famous painting of Scott, and lifting them out of the period in which they were created in order to jolt the viewer out of any preconceived ideas of time.
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