Alexander Moffat


Alexander Moffat, OBE, RSA, known as Sandy Moffat, is a painter, author, philosopher, and teacher.

Biography

Alexander Moffat OBE DLitt RSA studied at Edinburgh Art College, where he was taught by William Gillies, Robin Philipson and James Cumming. He concentrated on portraiture, described as "Scottish realism", and was among the leading Scottish intellectuals of the 1960s. He was Head of Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, where he worked for 25 years until 2005 and is credited with helping to steer the resurgence of figurative painting at the GSA. Painters like the so called New Glasgow Boys of the late 1980s including Steven Campbell, Peter Howson, Adrian Wiszniewski and Ken Currie, in addition to Jenny Saville and Alison Watt, were amongst his students. Sandy Moffat, in conjunction with Sam Ainsley and David Harding, individually and collectively nurtured generations of artists who have gone on to make Glasgow’s reputation as a leading centre of creative practice.

Collections

Examples of Moffat's work are held in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, the Russell-Cotes art gallery, the University of Edinburgh, Fife Council, the University of St Andrews, the Museum of the Isles, the Orkney Islands Council, the North Ayrshire Council, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture.

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