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Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. From 2006 to 2008, Watt was the Associate Artist at The National Gallery in London, an intense period of work culminating in the spectacular solo exhibition Phantom (2008) which explored her enduring fascination with one particular painting in their collection, Zurbaran’s St. Francis in Meditation.

“These exquisitely painted canvases edge further towards the abstract yet had a strange, almost sexy quality which suggested a human presence, or at least absence.”