Jack McGarrity

Born 1995, Scotland

Lives and works in London, UK

Jack McGarrity is an artist from the West of Scotland now living and working in London. He completed his BA at the Glasgow School of Art and a postgraduate Drawing Year course at the Royal Drawing School. Concerned with both quotidian mundanity and a heightened reality, McGarrity creates new narratives that explore notions of the absurd, stillness and alienation in the modern world. McGarrity presents collaged enactments that are, at times, familiar yet undercut by idiosyncratic and mordant notions. He is the recipient of The Sir Denis Mahon, John Kinross and the Richard Ford Award and has completed residences at the Museo del Prado, Madrid and in Florence. McGarrity’s work is held in the permanent collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Royal Collection.