today rather than just look at the politics of another referendum. says a prime minister we focused on the cultural underpinning of the scottish. through the work of. the creed of general. moore. and in particular has captured some of the most influential players on the sporting political. talent coming. to duty. to bangkok. and referendums more than often. first to alex. and even. though there was a big response to last week's show with who's probably britain's best just because of the work. says. gripping conversation with a psychologist i want to. debate. so after

a reply under says you're more than welcome it was a very different perspective. and that was rational and sensible in the middle of all of. trauma high praise indeed from. the field for all those they feel liberated. overall but that's a long road ahead. it's not just a mental health crisis anything that isn't covered is being ignored with treatment delayed despite hospitals being. mental health is very important and it's people who think otherwise who are part of the problem. disagree she says the view. she says over 50 percent of the population have some health issues and how many with any preexisting conditions ended up dead or in really life changing situations. scott hutton says it does affect the brain sense of taste is

a neutral function and people are being repelled from smells and tastes or used to love and finally the says there was already a mental health crisis before it was not enough money getting put into it and no one is receiving adequate treatment so some really interesting views there the next week we have some of the country's leading experts some call them and we're giving you the chance to ask them any question you like about what might be causing you the pandemic please post your questions as a video or text them or social media or the link below but no back to the tires and to scotland. there's a famous scene and the arthur wealth classic from the 3rd man to his character to flick that italy under the turmoil of the brave 30 years for youth michelangelo leonardo da vinci and then a phone off i printed years a brotherly love and since lent produced the character clock that's gone and having been banned by the porsche but has been moving through

a period of fundamental cultural and political transformation and the key point is that these are exactly the kinds of change where art and artists often flooded alex in conversation with the wonderful yet at boeing. jet are welcome to the alex salmond show gig to speak to you great to speak to you now i'm looking at you who said you seem to have a pretty fair enough to stick set up to produce that your home is your your made studio why does not work. this was the hostess create a big decision we we moved to lessen this post of teen years ago i started a plan basically to try to get me effectively open to the gallery system we decided we were going to train maybe do it differently in order to do the same the speech so i did you up at the the back of the garden. and what we do is we used as hosts twice a year we have

a formal exhibition here. where we spend that usually there were basically people who were interested in my were able to come and see the paintings and the beauty of all that as i've discovered is that the scene the war within the context of a home rather than a and a gallery space which i always feel was a bit awkward people can come normally not just what they're enormously on an ongoing basis and that's a good selection of everything i do and in all of the videos different facets of lore look good example just. on display really all the same does it i believe in corinth. in the uniform you're just back from from a spade i'm wondering if we discount the global tragedy for a 2nd as is locked down for you sort of a plastic endeavor as the benefits of being able to get peace and quiet to go on with your painting or are you like so many professors fighting the whole thing

a bit about difficult and challenging so you would imagine the lot during would have been a dream come true but the truth of it for me was i really struggled a really struggled so absent all of the other inputs all of the other stimulation i phoned the the get up in the morning go to the studio a phoned in heart and actually. probably many people it forced me in the way and i had to ask soliloquy hard questions. why am i am a fierce as an. a dream come true. what am i as an artist. it was that it was an odd experience. as a consequence why i was able to do is to really use that same as it said to dig deep and what i did was

a pushed into any area in trying to get some tame and been working with sculpture of the market 3 dimensions i don't need a couple of what i think are really quite short pieces saw so that's been distorted of locked on for me the painting i can't do it every day i can do all day every day i can just. exhausts me so have a nice extra facet by extra thing that i could go to that was the thing that the balanced equation for me was let's talk about their bun started that as a painter i mean for scott's my generation and i don't think i was particularly lucky either fell the subjects like art or music for that matter got any sense of priority at school maybe a bit i was just one unlucky but all things so it was a unix perience you've been a teacher yourself of course things change now as

a binocular revolution to put these these subjects for the forward than the chemical i'm sure think in the i think this is a difficult one when it comes to teaching or not because you go you asked the question what is it you're teaching. and i suppose i could answer that by telling your story of who i was the head of artisanal which is college in glasgow the school very academic and i argued the case successfully. art and music were an essential part an absolutely essential part of any any person any young pearson's still experience. the college went with but and the commitments from some tame some money and all you need to go to a department so we really kicked about a revolution is an hour shifts we thought $1.00 still to be taught to hold the pencil besley hold the brush up we mix the pin up that we do this

then do that then do this then do the us and it was astonishing with then there's a generation of kids lunatic a few years from it's no work at what we were doing but that our generation of kids and their future were watching us and that we know what it should is like they should all draw every single one of the mess hall nonsense of well she's good r. and he hasn't. we tripped up our completely with the rate train it. everybody can can can obtain the hunt scopes know that isn't the same at the end of the day as as being an artist you need that extra element and how do you. see that that's another question completely but my argument always horse aleisha good 100 skills unless you have some means to expression. the key to is there's

a lot that we novices caught in this produced great after some great musicians but it wouldn't have been the obvious career choice for a working class liar didn't settle scotland in the seventies and eighties when or what did you put in what was the reaction from your dad the the bobbins host called when you came home and said look the same geneva stuff no what i'm off to go has a good college of art but commit yourself what if you can sass the opposite that stuff would have been the worst engineer in the won't i couldn't get mad at the for the force to mollify understood there are different greens and there was in a roomful of people who would open an ordering in and out of a lot of the stuff i just couldn't get it so i should i apply with my parents 1st. syria with planning architects them planning up their gloucester school and go except it's. and went back and said some i died i think it must be to others when

the next house of his life that i don't mess with really speaking to them and he actually said or not that's an acceptance to go and do turn country turning he said this is a big school fight like you quit our school. it was like a bomb going off i'm hopeful we'll then so race to get a portfolio together and was accepted by the taim. was almost through our school is thoroughly disillusioned i stood by the whole thing so i wanted to be a costar i decided that being smushing and enjoyed a book. the room for me was music and deborah kimmel our school had a record deal and i try pretty hard up for a way of and the memory of band old goodness here we go a band called volley and the week of wonder what's the greatest band never to commercialise go. and i mean isn't band actually.

just saying that your style janet was for example would be kind of the quick and she quietly and quick or spoke. very guitar based and open to towards the end of the tale almost towards a can of americana. as a sig a good one for st in m. recounts. and just the new greeks basically we would have been good the 1st open. which was a she says she in your new book which i've seen in which you kindly sent me a copy off. bombs that the ultimate table top of i mean. the people we're people doing interviews disincentives all over the world to do what that on the on the camera shot. to tell us of a. risk there are so that the book well being this is something i've been trying to

cook together for for many years as a bizarre exercise to rate yourself similar to biographical on a lot information came from me and basically was reshaped by our wonderful rates will go cold chain rates. but it's a position to exercise you've got you always think of yourself and 'd in the pearson moment did you know. best nest guy what did he do name with it too and then what happens. is at the point were i in terms of my moroccan in terms of literally or there should be a trigger work and actually this is something that probably should harkens many years ago and it isn't ask him until a moment just over a year ago an introduction. a complete call bill and then in glasgow.

mummies and people and basically almost on the sport the sedes will do it for you and if i what they said was real different. they view it as a career hype christie jj project for them. so as you say we'll produce tests are absolutely beautiful beautiful. highest quality paper quality everything i said so it's a statement this is a statement of the in my 15th year this is where i am as an artist. and then traditionally actually even since that was published mentioned to the sculpture. that as an extra. that's the way i feel a bit sad a 2nd lane or the sound that's that's what it was at that point. its next note when jared embalmed said he was thinking about himself as if he was deep i should say that means as if he was dead for the fields i don't know what all based nor deep all day it is very much alive and when you join us after the break we're going to

go through some of the the themes of mott the work of one of scotland's most famous office. knew that the bill really kiss near the city really to show you. take these just be suitably. left without a supposed home video distressed by something that. you know none of us could be in a bull episodes didn't go to see a kishka cure the disease it think this lear during the air force wave would be named must of missed with not that's

a do it spirit i pity do it was more sinister experiment done in the. stadia cruelty. shows the stress of school issue months for you to post here to a pub iced tea or to move. willows wrestle and vulnerable to the story q. what is. welcome back any special program marking the fix anniversary of the scottish independence referendum alex you think conversation with top scottish artist carrick being. generated after you're special teacher given the you got into being a not easily because these things are easy but but into big a very notable and successful artist know something of a family paintings were huddling just the some themes that are in the salt of the national flag of scotland who was your inspiration and what were the ones that you

know major name as an artist the so tired is is is a theme which is which is and what works well and truly in my work but i remember the very 1st one that i made and up the last of the things he told the roman. which you'll know well alex i should explain to the viewers the violin was a painting ended up in my office when i was 1st minister of scotland because i have the sea at the air race course but there's a really interesting story behind the paid to go and you go tell it tell it to when i asked you why this old timer. when i meet a painting i would probably just escape myself as being a political it wasn't intended to be a click statement basically. a lot of the saltaire because i'm scottish and as an artist you little it same for things that you know you're looking for that thing that catches your eye again and again and if you had a winner in the world but ever so photographed the song just. so for me it was

almost a case of can you believe and believe anybody is people aren't doing something with us so i decided i would make a spec painting with the whole tale so felt almost 80 percent of the canvas the crew in contemporary culture has quite a glossy. connotation quick dark connotation but in pictish culture because of this so that the core makes that crow crow which a lot since c.r.t.'s literally means hawk or to morrow so what you've got has that are leaders with an appeal to people see in the cold meat initially think there's something quite sinister but when you unpack it and when you tie in with the graffiti on the wall it takes on a completely new meaning that talk was intended there for fidelity and as a city you've got different generations within it and these are all elements in my paintings make painting quick child of explored as of going on but in the road and

it was the very forced pay my used to feed it and it was probably the very 1st thing a used anonymous boards with a symbolic element was without intention so that i was basically a paid thing about hope which is why i saw. another 50000000 at airlie of what what religious themes have been you know the famous canvas of st john noble way for example a factor were your own passable religion and that they. splash in the field. i think i'm always drawn to stories. i was brought up. catholic in a very religious void and to my mind as a young adult i would have defamed myself of the logistics and my religious beliefs have changed. fief said johnny and at this point in the johnnie i can all go

home to. the things that i believed when i was a younger man and that's the best there i can see the story of john over this as his death who want so i decided to take but it was p.t. to be hung on a plane to school. to the point where the young man a boy makes quite quick get flu quick difficult decision and that's life choice to pick this up point at which he made a decision to become a religious person in which they were going to shape the rest of his life the melody of religious paintings you present religious figures historical figures at a modern setting so that was a deliberate choice of words and the figures for who'd be recognizable from biblical stories or form of john ogilvy as. a catholic martyr in scotland they they're presented in modern day as

a font of ordinary people. i was fastened fascinated by the aspect of the obvious a deliberate choice of yours and contrasting for example were fond of me it's gotta be the house and the present says alexis figures very much for photo back in the real or some of that they will be you present them in modern settings what part of course of the game behind you change the context you change the stories received. there are a number of paintings. on the theme of the deposition christine taking tone from the tourists. and other hudson quite seriously negative reactions to these things because almost and some respects trigger is who is this who can you depict traced really. really think about the story i'm in groups and of your own these these people and it becomes almost romantic trace being taken to improve the choice being taken to that shouldn't be

a separate seam story in the streets of classical and you've got theories mates basically the money to go holder the body and the hook limits of the streets a colossal that changes the nuggets of profoundly stupid so we any international prominence and what you're left with is the role the brutality. you're known as an outstanding portrait artist and one of your strafing exhibitions was in the calm of games and in glasgow in 2014 were you in 14 portraits of of various paths now it is your 14 for 14 as it were. with i was lucky enough to be in the exhibition but i was also tested by the settings you gave some people who could tell us about. the land and the celtic manager because some of the background there and some of the split of

leather them to that and to that picture and of course have the other celtic support yourself so when bigley hardship persons were pitted with celtic manager. he was a complex character and in fact. prop or simply of all the paintings or maybe not still remains one of the most controversial you have this man standing straight to camera but surrounded by this this maelstrom of defeated which highlights once you understand all of it is there isn't probably milam still is the only one who can really unpack it because this wasn't just most often the hour when she understand all those leaders you get some sense of the man and the wonder of your more recent very famous portraits of another sporting hero in scotland the dirty we're which has caused something of a sensation when the thought his own personal battles been featured on this on this program is very very much iconic forgotten skull tell us about that painter gosh

that's just the most wonderful eyes to me until he was even thinking about it. opportunities present themselves as astutely convoluted story but basically i offered to make a painting of dorothy. to help to raise funds for his foundation i think though it was a bit nervous uproot the idea initially of all that confidence the radiates. it would be surprised to know that that's there's about a front there i think he was quite nervous about it. waited to meet on. and the idea was that we were we would take the painting as a big big fundraising event in hong kong and my idea was that if we meet this painting and we get rate will quote fund it will quote fund and hold call and basically we're trying recent money so i went to meet doherty and he had really nor yet no idea of what we do in what is the portrait until so i had to

kill him what i got was this amazing series of images of this this incredible man st tacoma and you can see in the quarter you see the picture painted i think in his eyes and you can see a fear that more than anything because of the cause you can see his. historicism basically. the shortest part with a gorgeous soft borders landscape. i think it's one of the strongest paintings ever made up and i'm going alone myself to be a weaver. i think we did that for the rate reason we raised a fortune and we reached $150000.00 pounds i think and sort of been saying and of course the bodies battle the famine the capture of the hearts of the nation and the rugby world and and to national and good luck to all the latest team of noticed in your work it is

a bally versus surprising the part of some amazing sort of behind the scenes portrait corps was behind the latest feed more for of your work. i've been working with done source for years on officially. ballet dancers and a tech killer of our most amazing teachers. if you want if you will by the way yes they're open to you know how you look you have a nose going stand a state a few belly dancers they are just remarkable i got to go backstage for the rehearsal of a poly contraries just thinking mark willacy i may get something and it just absolutely blew me away and what i discovered to my amazement is i'm not really interested in the dunstan. more i'm interested in is that moment before

the layoffs that slickly virus to look can from blacks t. h. and in most cases beyond a dancer who is just a bit to go on and perform and actually did something on radio scotland. 'd where we spoke about pins he's been fascinating and different perspectives he spoke about that he got that completely he spoke to our former beast he talked to group the brutality of the performance piece the white hot heat of the performance based process this rule a project in its full open grace for a dancer it's brutal tell above in your t.v. birthing success though in your career your paintings of in the galleries the national galleries and scotland that let me take you back to st aloysius when you're a teacher no assists say for the sake of argument one of the boys or girls came along as a police of thinking of a become an afterthought what would you say to that that youngster now what's your

joke how do you get to come in your whole practice practice practice practice tell burden's what is called the greatest artist thank you so much for joining me on the alexander show my pleasure. rather than a conventional cliff today we thought we would end this special show one scotland but if they want to be a part get it started according artist friends not to play the fight with what some people consider to be the most beautiful love song ever written robert burns this the fun to. leave.

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