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Just after finishing my degree at Edinburgh College of Art in '98, I entered the National gallery of Scotland on the Mound and I took solace in old Renaissance painting. seeing the accomplishment attained and what these masters could do with paint.. I realised I was deprived of certain kind of visual stimulus at art college in exchange for an overly theoretical approach. After leaving college I suppose I needed the complete opposite. Though after a while, and one Renaissance painting too many in the long corridors of oversized national collections of pillage taken from other nations' pillage. I again needed the opposite: less visual stimulus and a more theoretical approach. Influences in no particular order: - The Renaissance (ha ha), Talitha Kotze, Susan Hiller, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Richard Dawkins, Stuart Murray, life drawing, Neil Mulholland, John Beagles, Radio 4, art books, Rebecca Elphinstone, Grazzia, Jeff Koons, Wim Delvoye, Smog, Bonnie Prince Billy, La Specola, Daniel Dennet, Theo van Leeuwen & Gunter Kress, Kenneth le Riche. Education MA in contemporary art theory at Edinburgh College of Art (2010) First class BA (honours) degree in sculpture (1998), Edinburgh College of Art. Exchange student to Purchase College New York State 1997 With Heriot-Watt Medal Received for being the most academically distinguished student within the sculpture faculty of Edinburgh College of Art Art diploma (1993), Falmouth College of art. Teaching Evening class tutor for classes such as life drawing, oil painting, portraiture, and proportional drawing. (09/05 ongoing) at Leith Academy, 20 Academy Park, Edinburgh Running an ongoing Sunday drop in life class and weekend workshops in drawing and painting at Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny St, Edinburgh. Exhibitions 2010 On Voices, IETM International Convention. Glasgow Young Masters Revisited Presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery Part 1 Sphinx Fine Art, 125 Kensington Church St, London W8 Part 2 The Old Truman Brewery, F BLOCK T2, London E1 Salon, Catalyst Arts, BelfastCurator and exhibitor of Out of the Blue studio artists exhibition 36 Dalmeny St, Edinburgh Retro Renaissance solo exhibition (part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art) Hanson Street Project Space, Wasps Studios, Hanson Street, Glasgow. 'Salon' show, Embassy gallery, Edinburgh 2009 Fish Supper solo exhibition, 45 King Street, Glasgow. Co-Curator for Gray Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Part of the MA in Contemporary Art Theory 2008 Rocket Gallery, St Stephen St, Edinburgh The Phoenix Gallery, 3 Dundas St, Edinburgh 2006 Landscape commission For George Goldsmith, Sporting Estates, Edinburgh Portrait commission for David Lauener, Standard Life, Edinburgh. 2005 Gang show’ at the Embassy Gallery, East cross Causwayside, Edinburgh Wordplay/Colourplay solo show at The Red Gallery, 19 Osborne St, Hull; 2001 World Art media Stage in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh 2000 Deployment at Havant Arts,Centre, East St, Havant, Hants. 1998 Group show Tweed Dale Museum, Chambers Institute, Peebles. Part of the New Generation Show at the Compass Gallery, Glasgow Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh. 1997 Group show at Purchase College, State University of NY, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York State. Installation in Simpson’s Memorial Hospital, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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