Irish-born artist Tony Swain trained at Glasgow School of Art and still lives and works in Glasgow. He is known for paintings depicting complex private worlds painted over newspaper pages, the newsprint providing both the physical ground and the conceptual starting point of each painting. Fragments of the newspaper survive, transformed and transfigured by their inclusion in Swain’s painted world.
This exhibition will consist entirely of new work, made specifically for The Fruitmarket Gallery.
