CV
Education
2017 – Art and Archaeology, Contemporary Theory and Practice stand alone Module, Orkney College UHI.
2014-2016 – MFA Art, Society and Publics, DJCAD, Dundee University.
1976-1980 – BA (hons) Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art.
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Tidal Rhythms, paintings, Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Voices from the River, artefacts from the Coupar, Angus Burn Project, Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
2013
The Architecture of Nature, site specific exhibition of paintings for The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Church, Glasgow.
Beyond Appearance, selection of work, Chaplaincy Centre, Edinburgh University.
2012
Beyond Appearance, site specific exhibition of paintings, drawings and assemblages, Park Gallery, Falkirk.
2005
Tide, paintings, drawings and sculptures, Threshold, Arts Space, Perth.
2004
A Walk to the sea, paintings and assemblages, Birnam Art Centre.
2002
Shadows of the Sacred, selection of paintings and installations, Scottish Natural Heritage Centre, Perth.
2001
Shadows of the Sacred, site specific exhibition of paintings and installations, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar.
1996
Paths and Journeys, paintings and drawings, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
1990
The Northern Lights, site specific exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints after a period of research into the lives of Scottish Lighthouse keepers, Pearce Institute Glasgow.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
RSW, RSA, Edinburgh.
2023
Galerie Ecossaise, Noyers sur Serein, France.
Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Forfar.
2022 – 2023
Upright Gallery, Edinburgh.
2019 – 2023
Artists Book Market, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright.
Aosdana, Isle of Iona.
2018
RSW, RSA, Edinburgh.
2016
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee University.
Generator, Dundee.
RSW, RSA, Edinburgh.
2015
Featured artist Perthshire Open Studios (POS), The Bield, Blackruthven, Perth.
Royal Society of Watercolour Artists (RSW), RSA, Edinburgh.
2014
Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh.
Generator, Dundee.
2012
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.
Sheridan Russell Gallery – Grand Design Show, London.
2011
Sheridan Russell Gallery, London.
Battersea Arts Fair, London.
Aspect Finalists Exhibition, Fleming Collection, London.
SSA, RSA, Edinburgh.
2010
Aspect Prize, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery.
Strathearn Gallery, Crieff.
Lost Gallery, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
Perthshire Visual Arts Forum (PVAF), Birnam Arts Centre.
2009
PVAF, Threshold Arts Space, Perth.
Lost Gallery, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
Green Gallery, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire.
Strathearn Gallery, Crieff.
2008
Lost Gallery, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.
Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem.
Strathearn Gallery, Crieff.
2007
Baishi Festival, Xiantan University, Baishi Institute, Hunan Province, China.
Earth Journeys, Birnam Arts Centre.
2006
PVAF, Kaire-Desine Print Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2004
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly.
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow.
2002
Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxford.
1999
Dept for International Development, East Kilbride.
1998
Frames Gallery, Perth.
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow.
1997
Royal GIasgow Institute (RGI), McClelland Galleries, Glasgow.
Visual Art Scotland (VAS), RSA, Edinburgh.
Blackcombe Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Duncan Millar Fine Art, London.
1995
Adam Gallery, Bath.
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
1993
Dundee Printmakers.
1992
Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
Dundee Printmakers.
1988
RGI, McClelland Galleries, Glasgow.
Thumb Gallery, London.
1987
Transmissions Gallery, Glasgow.
Glasgow School of Art.
Main Fine Art, Glasgow.
1995
Tron Theatre, Glasgow.
Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, Germany.
Fine Art Society, Glasgow.
1980
St Enoch’s Exhibition Centre, Glasgow.
Compass Gallery, Glasgow.
Awards
2024 – Watermark Award, Royal Society of Watercolour Artists, (RSW).
2020 – VACMA, Creative Scotland.
2016 – Postgraduate Achievement Award, DJCAD, Dundee University.
2010 – Shortlisted Artist, Aspect Prize, Glasgow.
2008 – Scottish National Art Prize, First Prize.
2005 – Scottish Arts Council Artist’s Award.
2000 – Scottish Arts Council Combined Arts Award.
1996 – Angus Artists First Prize Award.
1990 – South Square Trust Award.
1989 – Oppenheimer John Downes Memorial Award.
Projects
2022
When it rains, we harvest, collaboration with St Andrews University MLitt students, The Fisheries Museum in Anstruther.
2017
Reflections on Collections, THAT, Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Voices from the River, Coupar Angus, Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
2016
Relics from an Anthropocene Age, Coupar Angus, Perthshire.
Airlie Birds, Airlie and Ruthven, Angus/Perthshire.
2015
In my Father’s Footsteps, Airlie and Ruthven, Angus/Perthshire.
2014
Wish you were here, DJCAD, Dundee University.
2012
Musee De L’extraodinaire, Heartwood Artists, Cambo, Fife.
2011
Outside In, Heartwood Artists Sculpture Trail, Blairgowrie,
2010
Shrine, Heartwood Artists Sculpture Trail, Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
2009
Sacred dreams of Holy places, Heartwood Artists Sculpture Trail, Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Residencies
2021
Bothy Project
1 weeks residency at the Inshriach Bothy Cairngorms
Collections
Perth Musuem and Art Gallery Collections.
Edinburgh Central Library.
Art UK Public Art Collection.
Cornhill Macmillan Centre, Perth Royal Infirmary.
Occupational and Social Rehabilitation Centre, NHS, Dundee.
Scotus College, Glasgow.
Angus Council.
Glasgow School of Art.
Aberdeen Asset Management.
Work in private collections in Scotland, England, France, Holland and USA.
Media Coverage
2016
Should Perth be City of Culture? Nick Higham, BBC News.
2013
Homes and Interiors Scotland. (September/October edition)
2012
Homes and Interiors Scotland. (May/June edition)
The Herald. (Galleries Section March)
Artmag. (February/March edition)
The Falkirk Herald. (07/03/12)
The Stirling Observer. (01/03/12)
2011
Scottish Islands Explorer. (July/August edition)
Art News. (Spring edition)
Flow. (Glasgow School of Art Issue 14)
The Herald. (Galleries Section January)
2010
Artmag. (August/September edition)
2007
Scots Magazine. (October edition)
Artist Talks
2022
St Andrews University
2017
Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Deveron Projects
2016
Cooper Gallery, Dundee University.
Dundee University, Postgraduate Conference.
2013
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Church, Glasgow.
Chaplaincy Centre Edinburgh, University.
2012
Park Gallery, Falkirk.
2011
Perthshire Visual Arts Forum, Birnam Arts Centre, Perthshire.
Selected Employment
2022
Historic Environment Scotland – Chronicles of Angus, a community arts project with young people, families and the elderly in Kirriemuir and Forfar.
2021-2022
“When it rains we harvest” a commission to produce work for an exhibition at The Fisheries Museum in Anstruther working in conjunction with MLitt Students from St Andrews University.
2019
Mapping the Landscape, a Living Communities Project with Rattray Primary School, Blairgowrie. Exploring the Gaelic Landscape through walking, map making and language.
2018
Summer – Teaching at Dollar Summer School, a week’s intensive course developing and advancing participant’s studio practice.
Spring – Historic Environment Scotland – Stanley Mills, facilitating the making of a community Diaspora Tapestry with the local community, visitors and staff at Stanley Mill, Perthshire.
2006 – 2023
Part-time lecturer DJCAD, Dundee University, portfolio building workshops and drawing projects within the design school and school of architecture.
2004 – 2017
Lead Artist Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust (THAT) working on various in patient and community projects with Stroke, COPD, Parkinson’s, Dementia, Long Term Conditions and Brain Injury.
2001 – 2018
Lead Artist with Perth & Kinross Council Arts Service, now Culture Perth & Kinross, working on a number of educational projects in schools and within the community. Working with adult mental health programmes, in-service training for visual arts teachers, community arts festivals, drawing projects and portfolio building with 5/6th year pupils. Designing and facilitating workshops for young people around the Artist Rooms collection, Perth Museum and Art Gallery collection and the Scottish National Gallery collections.
1998 – Present
Self-generated workshops for adults working in various mediums; drawing, painting, collage, bookmaking, printmaking towards the advancement of participant’s studio practice..
2014 -2018
Dollar Summer School , annual week facilitating the advancement and development of participant’s studio practice
2009
Perth College Contemporary Arts Practice visiting lecturer.
2006
Public Art Commission to provide a site specific art work for the Dundonald Occupational Therapy Centre, Dundee.
2003 – 2007
Artist in residence Stroke Unit Stracathro Hospital.
2002 – 2003
Workshop facilitator working on a number of projects with Angus Arts.
2000 – 2002
Part-time lecturer Perth College.