Joan Eardley is one of Scotland’s most popular 20th century artists. This exhibition marks the first major retrospective of her work for almost 20 years and includes Eardley’s observations of street children in the back streets of Glasgow as well as her landscapes painted in and around the fishing village of Catterline on the North-East coast of Scotland.

Born in Sussex in 1921, Eardley moved to Glasgow in 1940 to study at Glasgow School of Art.  Her paintings of children playing in run-down Glasgow tenements and her drawings and oils of the North-East coast of Scotland are among the most celebrated works in Scottish art. 

Her career was cut tragically short in 1963 when she died at the age of 42.