Maker of wooden constructions, watercolourist and collagist, born in Glasgow. He studied at the School of Art there, 1983–8, gaining his fine art degree and completing postgraduate studies. In 1990 he was prize winner at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Laurie’s great preoccupation was with the sea and man’s relationship with it over thousands of years. From 1987 he began to show in many group exhibitions: at New Generation at Mercury Gallery in London and Edinburgh; Sue Rankin Gallery; in 1989 at New Scottish Art at Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and in 1990 at Surrealist Tendencies at Open Circle, Glasgow. In 1991 Laurie had a one-man show at Mercury Gallery. Later shows included the RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, of both of which he was a member, and 200 Years of Scottish Painting, Panter & Hall, 2003, which that year held a solo exhibition of Laurie’s Cabinet Paintings.