Figgy Guyver

Mar 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Figgy Guyver

Countless friends had urged me to see writer and artist Alasdair Gray’s mural in the Òran Mór, Glasgow, before I eventually did. Inexcusably, I lived on the same road, but whenever I visited the venue I was foiled by a crowd-control barrier and a sign reading ‘engaged for an event’. When I finally plucked up the (Dutch) courage to hop the railing and race up the spiral staircase leading to it, the painting surpassed the superlatives friends had used to describe it.