CRAWFORD Alistair 1945-2025

Painter and printmaker, born at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and Aberdeen College of Education. From 1968-1971, Crawford was Lecturer in Textile Design at the University of Leeds and from 1971-73 held the post of Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry. Since then, he has been on the staff at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and is currently Research Professor of Art. He was elected Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1973, Member of the Society of Typographic Designers in 1977, a Member of the Printmakers Council in 1978 and an Associate member of the 56 Group Wales in 1978. His numerous awards include a WAC Design Commission in 1976, and with the financial support of the WAC and the University College of Wales, he attended the printmaking studios of the British School at Rome in September 1978. An author of several publications, mainly on the history of photography, he is a co-author of “John Thomas 1838-1905, photographer” which was published in 1977.

Alistair Crawford has been a practising graphic designer since 1970, and his work has been represented in the Design Council Index, London, since 1975. From 1974-1977, he acted as graphic designer to the Arts Centre Gallery, Aberystwyth and has designed and arranged several exhibitions. These include the first exhibition in Great Britain of the photography of Elio Ciol and John Thomas, 1838-1905, an early Welsh photographer. Crawford has exhibited, as an artist and printmaker, in both solo and group shows at Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Paisley, Glasgow, Cumbernauld, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Aberystwyth, MOMA, Wales at Machynlleth, Cardiff, Bristol, Fredrikstad in Norway and San Gimignano in Italy. His work is on show permanently at the Ian Birksted Gallery, London and in the public collections of the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Leeds, the WAC, the West Wales Association for the Arts, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Penlee House Museum and the National Museum of Wales. He is the brother of painter John Gardiner Crawford.