Alasdair Gray: Glasgow Piranesi

The Scottish painter and novelist standing in front of one of his murals in the auditorium of former church Òran Mór, now a Glasgow arts venue. The murals in the auditorium constitute one of Scotland's largest pieces of public art Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian

Gray's 1978 poster for The Continuous Glasgow Show, an exhibition of art at the People's Palace in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens Photograph: Canongate

Red Beth, 1968 Photograph: Canongate

Cowcaddens Streetscape in the Fifties, 1964 Photograph: Canongate

London Road between Templeton's Carpet Factory and Monaco Bar (end of Arcadia St III), 1977 Photograph: Canongate

A mural illustrating the book of Jonah, from the wall of a private flat in Glasgow, painted in 1961, and restored with added detail in 2002 Photograph: Canongate

The City: Version Two, 1951 Photograph: Alasdair Gray/Canongate

Snakes and Ladders (film sequence with Liz Lochhead), 1972 Photograph: Canongate

Alasdair Gray Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian