The Latest Breaking News from Alison Watt

Handpicked review – delightful dancing dahlias and petals so pillowy you can feel them

Perfectly timed exhibition of bright blooms bursts your senses into life and reveals intensely human stories of love, loss and jealousy-ridden break-ups

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24

Alison Watt: From Light review – hollow heads and spectral sheets loaded with meaning

Watt’s bleak nothingness casts spectral shadows – it is positively strange to look this hard at things nowadays

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025

Cheeky monkeys, gored matadors and trompe l’oeil masks – the week in art

Alison Watt pays homage to John Soane, Ella Kruglyanskaya honours Manet, and chaos comes for civilisation

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

Anger as Scots council considers buying £24,000 painting as cuts to vital services loom

Labour's Martin Rooney said the idea of spending this sum on an artwork was "completely bonkers in the middle of a cost of living crisis”.

Daily Record · Feb 16, 2022

West Dunbartonshire Council searches for 21st Century artists to display

The council stepped back from approving the purchase of works by artists such as Alison Watt, Jacki Parry and Kate Cameron but agreed instead to look for work by 21st century artists.

Glasgow Live · Jan 17, 2022