Item DC 102/1/39 - Plan and detail sketch for mural, Bishopbriggs Sports Centre

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DC 102/1/39

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Plan and detail sketch for mural, Bishopbriggs Sports Centre

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  • c1973 (Creation)

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1 item

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Two ink drawings on a page that has been folded in half, one drawing above and one below the fold line. Below the fold line is a plan for a metal mural featuring a crest with a crown, seemingly the Bishopbriggs coat of arms, bounded by a rectangular shape that has been shaded in. The installation itself has been shaded with hatching and blocks of shadow .Above the fold line is a sketch, apparently a detail of a larger structure. Two edges are shown, a curved vertical and a straight horizontal, as well as intersecting lines creating a grid. Circles along the curved edge mark the end points of the horizontal lines. In relation to 1973 commission for the Bishopbriggs Sports Centre.

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(1924-1982)

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Alfredo Avella, DA AMGP, was born in Cava de Tirreni in Italy in 1924. He studied part time under Hugh Adam Crawford at Glasgow School of Art, attending evening classes between 1946-1948 and the early 1950s. Avella was encouraged by John Duncan Ferguson and exhibited as an independent with the New Scottish Group at McLellan Galleries in 1956. Two early paintings from the period are on permanent view at The Ferguson Gallery in Perth. He studied Stained Glass at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1965. He was made an associate of British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1966. He became a visiting member of staff at Glasgow School of Art in 1968 and was a full time lecturer in the Stained Glass and Murals department between 1969 and 1982.

Continuing to be a painter and stained glass artist in Scotland, Avella was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Visual Art residency in Amsterdam in 1980. He had many one man shows and group exhibitions in Scotland, including; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and The Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh in 1980. He undertook many commissions in stained glass in Scotland including; Drumchapel St Andrews Church, Glasgow, McTaggart Memorial Westpark Church, Denny, Denny Civic Hall, Craiglockhart Parish Church, Edinburgh, St John the Baptist Church, Port Glasgow, St Mark’s Church, Oxgangs, Edinburgh, Joy of Life, Queen Margaret's College, Edinburgh College of Domestic Science, Musselburgh, Glasgow Police Federation in Woodside Place, Glasgow. He also undertook commissions in metal and mosaic, such as at the Motherwell and Wishaw Civic Centre and the County District Library in Dunbarton. There are a number of his paintings in private collections. Avella died in Glasgow in 1982.

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Ink on paper. The page has been folded over to create a cover for the artwork.
Dimensions: 253 x 405 mm folded, 506 x 405 mm unfolded

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Catalogued by Eláir Ní Thuama, Work Placement Student, Jan-Apr 2024

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