Fletcher, Alan Robert Tregoning Williams
1930 – 1958
Born in the Anderston district of Glasgow on 1930-03-27, Fletcher enrolled as a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1951, after his National Service, where he was taught by Schotz, and later became his assistant; helping in the construction of the Cross for St Peter’s RC Church in Glenrothes. A co-founder of The Glasgow Group alongside James Spence, Anda Paterson, and James Morrison RSA (1932-2020) Fletcher died after falling from a wall at the Casa Della Studente, the 5-storey student residence block of nearby Milan Polytechnic, on 62 Viale Romagna in Milan, into the building’s courtyard, on 1958-08-01, whilst on a John Keppie Travelling Scholarship. Schotz writing of Fletcher in the catalogue of his Memorial Exhibition in 1959 wrote; “His background and emotional conflicts warred with set hours of study and prescribed subjects. So it took him six years to complete the standard course. He obtained his Diploma in Sculpture in 1957.” The Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (1934-2019), a contemporary of Fletcher’s, has written of him; “Alan Fletcher is the only artist I know who naturally looked like the Bohemian artist of legend. He was the free-est soul I ever met, and impressed me so mightily that a diminished version of him has been a main character in all the novels I ever wrote. He had to be diminished, or he would have stolen attention from my main characters, who were versions of me.”
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