Pop Art For Star Amy - BBC Interview (video)
 16 October 2008, BBC News
Gerald Laing talks about his new exhibition New Paintings for Modern Times and his paintings of Amy Winehouse.
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Clearances statue replicas plan
13 April 2008, BBC News, Scotland
Replicas of a memorial statue to those affected by the Highland clearances by Gerald Laing could be erected in other countries.
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Art interview: Gerald Laing
26 February 2008, The London Paper
Alex Johnson talks to legendary pop artist Gerald Laing about sex, drugs and Amy Winehouse
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Pop artist attacks ‘disgraceful’ price inflation by Arifa Akbar
22 February 2008, The Independent
One of Britain’s most eminent artists has criticised the “distasteful” trend for ever-rising art prices – just days before a leading auction house launches a sale that could fetch more than £72m, smashing all records for the contemporary art market.
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A Life in the Day: Gerald Laing
  17 February 2008, Sunday Times
A leading British pop artist of the 1960s, Laing, 72, lives with his dog, Asgard, in Kinkell Castle in Ross-shire, Scotland, and has a home in London. He has been married three times and has six children
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Posh, Kate and Amy get the Pop Art treatment by Ciar Byrne
 03 December 2007, The Independent
In the early 1960s, Gerald Laing became famous for his Pop Art pictures of Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina. Four decades on, he has once again taken celebrity as his subject in a series of paintings of Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham.
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Amy Winehouse immortalised by pop art icon
23 October 2007, NME
Amy Winehouse has been immortalised as a piece of pop art.
The singer is the subject of a picture by legendary artist Gerald Laing.
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HOW POP CHANGED THE PORTRAIT
 19 October 2007, Evening Standard
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Winehouse made into pop-art
 11 October 2007, Metro
Some would say her tattoos and her nutty behaviour should be classed as an art work on their own merits but today Amy Winehouse officially became an art work.
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Gerald Laing: Art that commemorates the brutality and horror of war
 02 October 2007, Socialist Worker
Gerald Laing’s War Art is finally being exhibited in London. He spoke to Anindya Bhattacharyya about the show.
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Laing revives pop art as weapon against war in Iraq by Ciar Byrne
27 September 2007, Belfast Telegraph
In the early Sixties, Gerald Laing was a star of the pop art movement, famed for his paintings of starlets and astronauts.
Now, after a break of more than 30 years, he has returned to the pop art medium to express his horror at the Iraq war in an exhibition in London.
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IRAQ PAINTINGS TO SPARK CONTROVERSY
23 September 2007, Daily Express
A British artist is set to spark controversy with an exhibition of paintings inspired by the Iraq war.
Pop artist Gerald Laing’s War Paintings touch on the torture that took place inside Abu Ghraib prison during the conflict.
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First Minister to unveil Helmsdale statue
16 July 2007, The Northern Times
SCOTLAND’S First Minister, Alex Salmond MSP, is to officially unveil The Emigrants statue in Helmsdale later this month.
“The celebrated Highland-based sculptor, Gerald Laing, designed the statue and his family grouping presents a combination of the conflicting emotions of the times, the hope of looking forward and the sadness of what is left behind.”
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ARMY MUSEUM SHOWS ART LINKING 7/7 TO IRAQ WAR by Patrick Sawer
 02 07 2007, Evening Standard
The National Army Museum is at the centre of a political row after it acquired a painting that pins the blame for the 7 July bombings on the Iraq war.
City and Guilds of London Art School
19 June 2007
Gerald Laing's address at the City and Guilds of London Art School Annual Award Ceremony, 19 June 2007.
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Under a grand
 21 11 2006, The Telegraph
Want to buy a work of art for less that £1,000? Serena Davies shows you how
Laing was a British-born Pop artist who, like Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Indiana, with whom he worked after moving to America, helped to define the 1960s with popular images that fetishised the icons of the era, be they film stars or, a particular favourite of Laing’s, automobiles. The famous image of Brigitte Bardot with her face encircled by a target ring is one of his.
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A dotty neglect of a Pop artist
18 November 2006, The Times
Virginia Blackburn on a British artist whose iconic Sixties work is set for a fab revival
Pop Art is commonly recognised as one of the most important movements of the 20th century, with its leading artists — Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — enjoying the status of household names. One Pop artist, however, has not received the recognition he deserves. Gerald Laing, born in Britain but resident in the United States in the 1960s, is often thought of as an American artist and, since the heyday of Pop Art, has been shamefully overlooked.
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Iraq torture inspires pop artist
19 February 2005, BBC News, Cambridgeshire
A “pop” artist has decided to come out of retirement to exhibit controversial paintings from Iraq.
Gerald Laing’s pictures are on show in England for the first time at Kings College in Cambridge.
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Gerald Laing: Bourne Art Gallery, Edinburgh
30 Novemner 2004, Studio International
Artists have only one life - yet Gerald Laing seems to have nine. During one of Laing’s previous incarnations, this reviewer met him up in New York State on the tip of Amagansett, in a summerhouse he had rented for winter. This was in the 1970s. He was already working on a series of sculptures, in a challenging mode. The wild Atlantic, the beach and the dunes made Hopper’s environment seem benign.
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From Here to Apostasy
April 1999, Art Review, 48-49
Gerald Laing reflects on the fluctuating fortunes of his career from star of Pop Art to the recidivism of casting bronze figures.
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Gerald Laing: An Introduction by Ian Carr
1993
Gerald Laing and I first met when we were both at crucial stages in our lives. I was a National Service second lieutenant with an honours degree in English literature and a passion for jazz. Gerald was a full lieutenant who had gone through Sandhurst with the intention of making the army his career. He was a romantic with a passion for heraldry, but two years of professional soldiering had knocked the stuffing out of his military idealism, and he was beginning to question everything. It was also dawning on him that he had other talents and interests which could perhaps find expression only in some different way of life.
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Gerald Laing: Swift Passages and the Monumental Imagination
1993
David Alan Mellor looks at Gerald Laing’s work from 1963 to 1993.
Systematic, monumental, disciplined: but also caught up with the instability of the world, the flickering of time and sight and presence. These opposing positions, these two separate metaphysics, have occupied Gerald Laing throughout his career as an artist ...
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An Interview with Gerald Laing by Giles Auty
1993, Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963-93
Gerald Laing in conversation with Australian art critic Giles Auty about his transition to figurative sculpture. 1993.
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Sherlock Holmes - A Memorial to Sir Arthur Conan by Gerald Laing
1989
Gerald Laing writes about his sculpture of Sherlock Holmes, sited at the birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
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