Lg Thomson

LG Thomson was born in Glasgow and grew up in Cumbernauld, the most ambitious and experimental of Scotland’s post-war New Towns, infamous for its brutalist architecture. After graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 1985, LG worked as an illustrator and graphic designer specialising in poster campaigns for issues as varied as HIV and AIDS awareness, football hooliganism, and knife crime.
Her writing career began when she won a national creative writing competition and was short-listed for the Dundee Book Prize. She now lives in Ullapool, on the Northwest coast of the Scottish Highlands, where she writes, paints, and runs creative writing workshops. She has published seven novels including noir thrillers Boyle's Law and Boiling Point and her writing has appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary publications, including Wyldblood Magazine, Art North, and the Urban Pigs Hunger anthology. Her latest books, Modernist Dreams Brutalist Nightmares and Bitter Fruit, are narrative memoirs set in the 1970s and 1980s. (Published by Outcast Press.)
LG is interested in exploring the ways in which life leaves its marks upon us, how the past echoes around us, and the ways in which we carry it within us. She is e...

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Bridge House Art, Ullapool.

2024:Art Week, Ullapool.
2024:An Talla Solais Members Show
2024: Rewilding: art exhibition, Inverness Botanic Gardens
2024: This is Where We Are: joint exhibition with MK Thomson at the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool.
2022: An Talla Solais Members Show
2022: Bridge House Art Glimpse Exhibition
2021: An Talla Solais Members Show

Earlier exhibitions: Dundee Printmakers Workshop Member's Show; DJCAD graduation show; Cumbernauld Theatre Art Exhibition.

LG's work is held in the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design Collection and in private collections in the UK and USA.