Gerald Laing’s speech at the unveiling of The Line-out sculpture at Twickenham.
Gerald Laing experienced an epiphany when he moved to Scotland, ditching pop art for sculpture and setting up home in a castle.
Gerald Laing calls for greater intellectual rigour in the commissioning of public sculpture.
Gerald Laing talks about his new exhibition New Paintings for Modern Times and his paintings of Amy Winehouse.
Replicas of a memorial statue to those affected by the Highland clearances by Gerald Laing could be erected in other countries.
Host Jill Spalding in conversation with guest painter, sculptor, and Pop Art legend Gerald Laing. His exhibition, Sex and Speed, was on view in 2007 at New York’s Mary Ryan Gallery (30 minutes).
Gerald Laing’s War Art is finally being exhibited in London. He spoke to Anindya Bhattacharyya about the show.
Nowadays Pop Art is the new Impressionism - the lowest common denominator of modern art and a surefire way for galleries to up their visitor count. Despite this, Pop Art Portraits is a well-chosen and spirited show that occasionally falls victim to its own enthusiasm.
The National Army Museum is at the centre of a political row after it acquired a painting that pins the blame for the 7 July bombings on the Iraq war.
An extract from the catalogue for the exhibtion Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2006.
Virginia Blackburn on a British artist whose iconic Sixties work is set for a fab revival
Pop Art is commonly recognised as one of the most important movements of the 20th century, with its leading artists — Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — enjoying the status of household names. One Pop artist, however, has not received the recognition he deserves. Gerald Laing, born in Britain but resident in the United States in the 1960s, is often thought of as an American artist and, since the heyday of Pop Art, has been shamefully overlooked.
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A “pop” artist has decided to come out of retirement to exhibit controversial paintings from Iraq.
Gerald Laing’s pictures are on show in England for the first time at Kings College in Cambridge.
Artists have only one life - yet Gerald Laing seems to have nine. During one of Laing’s previous incarnations, this reviewer met him up in New York State on the tip of Amagansett, in a summerhouse he had rented for winter. This was in the 1970s. He was already working on a series of sculptures, in a challenging mode. The wild Atlantic, the beach and the dunes made Hopper’s environment seem benign.
Gerald Laing reflects on the fluctuating fortunes of his career from star of Pop Art to the recidivism of casting bronze figures.
Gerald Laing and I first met when we were both at crucial stages in our lives. I was a National Service second lieutenant with an honours degree in English literature and a passion for jazz. Gerald was a full lieutenant who had gone through Sandhurst with the intention of making the army his career. He was a romantic with a passion for heraldry, but two years of professional soldiering had knocked the stuffing out of his military idealism, and he was beginning to question everything. It was also dawning on him that he had other talents and interests which could perhaps find expression only in some different way of life.
David Alan Mellor looks at Gerald Laing’s work from 1963 to 1993.
Gerald Laing in conversation with Australian art critic Giles Auty about his transition to figurative sculpture. 1993.
Gerald Laing writes about his sculpture of Sherlock Holmes, sited at the birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
An autobiographical account of Gerald Laing’s career from 1957 to 2006. From the foreword to his 2006 Prints and Multiples Catalogue Raisonné
A summary of Gerald Laing’s career, work and available prints by Olivia Connelly of ocontemporary gallery.