A North Lanarkshire building has been given Grade B status as a “place of special architectural or historic interest” in recognition of its significant interior mural by one of Scotland’s most celebrated artists and writers.
The former visitor centre at Palacerigg country park in Cumbernauld is now an officially-designated listed building in honour of the Scottish wildlife mural in its foyer painted nearly 50 years ago by Alasdair Gray.
It depicts local native species in a countryside scene, alongside industrial landscapes and many of the late artist’s typical features such as the ‘tree of life’ and the figures of Adam and Eve, as it “explores natural and human ecology and the place of humankind in the universe – themes which Gray revisited throughout his artistic and literary work”.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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