\n Alan Dimmick is showcasing his work at The Wyllieum (Image: Alex Craig)\n<\/p>\n
\n Two decades later, Alan is thrilled to be presenting his work at the gallery which is helping George\u2019s artistic legacy to live on.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alan, 65, said: \u201cGeorge had a lot of character. He wanted art to be for the masses.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe idea that art is elite has never entered my head.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI hope that my photos are quite accessible for people.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t show my work in posh art galleries. A lot of it is in cafes and pubs.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cEven if I didn\u2019t have an exhibition, I would still be doing what I do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n (Image: Alex Craig)\n<\/p>\n
\n Daytripping is an exhibition of photographs – some taken on short trips from home, and some taken on planned outings with friends and family.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many of the shots were captured on jaunts down the west coast.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alan said: \u201cWe would go to Millport<\/a> a lot when I was growing up.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cI wanted to show that daytripping can quite important to people, and this all came about in a natural way.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe photos show that even the briefest of trips can shift how we see and how we feel.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n \n Alan bought his first camera in 1977, the same year that he converted the toilets in his secondary school annex into a darkroom.\n<\/p>\n \n He started to process his own black and white films in 1978, and went on to study photography at Glasgow College of Building and Printing from 1979 to 1982.\n<\/p>\n \n Alan was a founding member of Glasgow Photography Group and exhibited at their inaugural exhibition in Hillhead Library in 1988.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \n Since the mid-1990s, Alan has documented Glasgow\u2019s contemporary art scene, capturing many of the events and the people that have shaped a significant period in Scottish culture.\n<\/p>\n \n Exhibitions of his work have been held at venues including Street Level Photoworks and the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, and Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n Alan said he has amassed a collection of thousands of photographs which \u2018keeps on growing\u2019.\n<\/p>\n \n \n Funding from Creative Scotland allowed him to bring people in to help him digitise his work.\n<\/p>\n (Image: Alex Craig)\n<\/p>\n
(Image: Alex Craig)\n<\/p>\n