This tour will look at two key paintings by the Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams as part of his centenary year celebrations. Born on 8 May 1926 he lived in Guyana until 1952 when he left to enrol at St Martins School of Art, London, UK. Williams’ work is now considered important in the development of 20th century abstraction painting. His concerns about past histories being repeated in the contemporary, ensure his paintings are vibrant in colour, paint and texture on the surface of the canvas with the meaning of these layers merging geological, historical and human ideas. He felt that painting could communicate just as must as the written word and argued strongly that abstraction was ‘no less socially committed as figurative painting’. FREE but limited to 15 spaces. Book your place by emailing museumbookings@glasgowlife.org.uk with the name and date of the tour your would like to attend. Image: Rockface, 1964, Aubrey Williams. Gifted by the Estate of Aubrey Williams, 2019. © Estate of Aubrey Williams

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