Paolozzi Masterclass- book launch

(Caption) from left to right: Amy Drewery and Avril Nicol, directors of the &Collective gallery,  Malcolm Shaw, who helped proof-read and digitise the photos, Ann Shaw, author, and Catherine King, artist and art lecturer with her husband, Richard.

    Art historian Geraldine Prince,  who organised the Masterclass on behalf of Edinburgh College of Art, regaled us with stories of what it was like trying to organise and "control" Paolozzi -a man notorious for his ferocious temper- during the Masterclass.

Paolozzi was not a man amendable to authority and he let Geraldine know on the first morning that she could go back to her office " and do those faxes or whatever it is that you do."

Well, it was certainly a book launch with a difference and thanks to the &Collective gallery in Bridge of Allan who were hosting it  the evening went like clockwork.

( Special thanks to Avril Nicol and Amy Drewery, co-directors and Ruth Drewery for all their hard work).

And I got to meet my publisher Stuart Johnson of Kennedy & Boyd for the first time.

He turned out to be a charming, erudite individual not at all like the hard-nosed publisher I had expected.

Also I met lot of friends again whom I had not seen for some time, along with new ones and we had the whole event filmed by Joel  Rock, a young student from Stirling University  Film and Media Department.

 (Caption) from left to right: Pamela 

Stennett of Kennedy & Boyd , Leslie Duncan, Poetry Editor of The Herald who helped edit the book and Amy Drewery, director of the &Collective gallery, Bridge of Allan.

Paolozzi Revealed by Ann Shaw, publisher Kennedy & Boyd, price £12.99 available from the &Collective gallery, Bridge of Allan or Amazon.