Working across painting, sculpture and printmaking, Scottish artist Michael Fullerton challenges the conventions of portraiture. Aping classical composition and technique, with subversive reference to the work of Thomas Gainsborough, the artist seeks to question how information, scandal and rumours are transmitted in the contemporary age. His subjects include controversial figures drawn from politics, the media and society at large: the present work depicts the Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie, who famously smuggled explosives into Spain as a teenager as part of a plot to assassinate General Franco in 1964. Trained at Glasgow School of Art, Fullerton has mounted solo exhibitions at major UK institutions including Tate Britain, London and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, both of which hold examples of his work in their permanent collections.