The Glasgow School of Art

Lachlan Goudie

Lachlan Goudie is an artist who exhibits regularly in London, Edinburgh and New York and in 2013 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London. In addition to painting, Lachlan is also a writer and arts broadcaster.

In 2015 he wrote and presented the landmark series ‘The Story of Scottish Art’ for the BBC. Lachlan has written and presented several other documentaries for BBC television – ‘The Art of Witchcraft’ (2013), ‘Stanley Spencer: The colours of the Clyde’ (2014) and ‘Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Britain’ (2017). ‘Painting the Holy Land’ and ‘Mackintosh: Glasgow's Neglected Genius’ were broadcast on BBC1 and BBC4 in 2018.

Lachlan has been a judge across three series of BBC1’s ‘Big Painting Challenge’ and reprised this role on BBC1’s ‘Celebrity Big Painting Challenge’, 2018. He is also an expert presenter of BBC2’s ‘Life Drawing Live!’, and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2021. Lachlan regularly contributes to the BBC World Service radio programme, ‘From our own Correspondent’ and has introduced several concerts on BBC Radio 3.