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Alison Watt

Alison Watt (Born 1965) is active/lives in United Kingdom, Scotland.  Alison Watt is known for Painting with folds of fabric, abstract figurative.

Born in Greenock in 1965 the daughter of painter James Watt RGI (1931 - ), Watt went on to study at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in the late 1980s as part of a remarkable wave of neo-figurative painters; her peers including Stephen Conroy and Ken Currie.

In 1987 Watt won the National Portrait Gallery's Annual Award, which secured her the representation of some of the country's leading galleries including Marlborough Fine Art in London. In 1997, a decade on, Watt began to introduce her now famous folds of fabric to the backdrops of her portraiture, an angle she continued to cultivate and evolve until she had moved away from the figure altogether.

This has made her earlier figurative output all the more desirable, being, as it is, scarce to the open market. Though not strictly self-portraiture, Watt frequently drew upon her own appearance in her work, deliberately lending her figures a homogenised and androgynous look; the elongated oval heads distinguished by a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1358 characters.]  Artist bio

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