Curriculum Vitae                                   

EDUCATION  2006 - 07          Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, University of the Arts, London (PGCert.) 1991 - 93           Royal College of Art, London (MA) 1985 - 88           Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Hons.)

SELECTED AWARDS 2020 Mandate award, Scottish Contemporary Art Network/Engage Scotland 2018                    Inshriach Bothy, Both Project Residency 2016                  Trelex Artists Residency, Tambopata Research Centre, Madre de Dios, Peru 2015                  Creative Scotland/CNES Visual Arts & Crafts Award 2012                   John Moores Painting Prize (stage 2) 2010                   Creative Scotland / CNES development award 2008                  Triangle Trust, 3 Islands International Artists Workshop, Outer Hebrides 1998                    British Council Exchange, Mahraja Sayajirao University, Vadodra, India 1998                    The Enduring Image - Drawing Residency, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai 1993                    English National Opera, Bayliss Programme, Artist in Residence

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018                    Island Time                           Bermondsey Project Space, London - Curated by Mel Gooding 2015                  Refugium                           Jersey Art Centre, Channel Islands 2015 Biomass (NU20072014)   Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre 2008                   Out of the Woods              Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, N.Y. USA 2007                   Transparent Eye                Atrium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016                 Neo-Neo Extreme Past       Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Pig Rock Bothy 2014                 20:20                                  Hot Bed Press Gallery, Bolton 2014 So Much Depends Upon    Parliament Building Holyrood, Edinburgh, Tent Gallery, (ECA), Nunton Steadings, Benbecula 2013                  Fragility of Flight 2              Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre 2011                 sOOt                                  OO Gallery, Kingston N.Y. USA 2010                  Come Ye Hither                  Crofters Store, North Uist 2007                 A Confluence                       Logbook/Artists project with Ian Stephen & Saki Satom 2006                Inaugural                            Paper Gallery, Kingston, N.Y. USA 2005                 Landmarks                          Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Centre

TEACHING 2018                    Sculpture/Spatial Studies Visiting tutor, UHI North Uist Campus, Fine Art, B.A. Hons       2015                  The Royal College of Art      Visiting artist 2014                  West Highland College, Skye     Visiting artist 2012- 14            University of Highlands & Islands    Course Leader, UHI North Uist Campus, Fine Art, B.A. Hons 2010                  Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE         Visiting artist/lecturer 2007- 12             University of Highlands & Islands     Lecturer, Fine Art, B.A. Tons. 2006                   Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing  Visiting lecturer 1998                  British Council/Mahraja Sayajirao University, Vadodra, India      Visiting lecturer 1996 - 06            Glasgow School of Art, Department of Visual Communication    Head of Illustration f/t 1994 - 96            Glasgow School of Art, Department of Visual Communication    Lecturer, p/t 1997 - 00            Edinburgh College of Art                                                         External Supervisor, M.A. Illustration 1997 - 00            University of Central Lancashire                                                   External Examiner, B.A. Hons. Illustration 1994 - 95            Anglia Polytechnic University                                                         Lecturer/Drawing 1989 - 91           H.M.P. Brixton, London                                                                  Drawing & Painting Tutor, Lambeth Council Adult Education

WORKSHOPS & RELATED EXPERIENCE 2018                    Work Like a Dog                          B.A. Fine Art Sculpture module, University of the Highlands and Islands 2015                  Metropolitan Field Studies          Visual research project, The Royal College of Art, London 2015 Towards An Ecology of Drawing     Two day, Field based workshop for ‘Artists Of Skye’ 2014                 Beyond Location                              Traveling Dialogues, event for ‘Broad Reach/ ATLAS Arts 2014 Power of the Sea                             Royal West of England Academy, in residence, with HATCH 2013                 We Are Northern Lights                    Co-Director, Collaborative documentary film /general release 2013 Out of Place                                     Public discussion for Time Span / Broad Reach 2013 In Conversation with Gwen Hardie   University of the Highlands & Islands, Event 2010                 Everywhere & No where                  Field based environmental workshop, Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE 2010               Locality                                                  Field based environmental workshop, Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE 2008 -11           Curracag Newsletter                      Natural History Society of the Outer Hebrides, Editor (Voluntary)    1995 - 06          Glasgow School of Art                       Environmental field trips  (Leader) 1999                 Points of Departure       Project/ collaboration with Railtrack & Glasgow School of Art, Curator  1995                   The Artificial Horizon and Eccentric Ladders Lecture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Glasgow Film Theatre        1993                  Inside Out        An exhibition of work by men in H.M.P. Brixton, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London. Curator

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA  2020 The Multiple Values of Nature We The Curious, Bristol 2019 The Rural Assembly: Contemporary Art and Spaces of Connection Whitechapel Gallery, London / Wysing Art Centre 2018 Green Arts Conference: Creative Carbon Scotland Representing ATLAS Arts as ‘Green Champion’ ,Edinburgh 2016 Social Intentions: on the use of social engagement within art institutions CCA, Glasgow 2015 Gather, Connect, Inspire ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye 2011 The Animal Gaze Returned London Metropolitan University

SELECTED WRITING 2019 Catching Fish in a Different Stream: The creative work of Jan Krul Published in the Netherlands, 2020 2015 ‘untitled fragments in acid green’ and ‘Proceedings Of The Society’ Niall Macdonald & Bobby Niven, Scottish Arts Review 2014 Art, the thing that makes life more interesting than art Vija Celmins/ Tate Artist’s room, Broad Reach 2011 A Wealth of Gestures - George Rowlett’s North Uist works Art Space Gallery, London ISBN 978-0-9563072-8-6 2010 Experience & Remembering - Donald Ferguson, the late works Taobh an Iar ISBN 978-0-953814-4-3 2008 A Human Force in Nature - Andy Goldsworthy in N.Uist Press article 2004 Of Atmosphere and Otherness Catalogue essay, Everything Remains, Gareth Reid, Gallery, N. Ireland 2001 An Opportunity to Explore Catalogue essay, Joe Concra Paintings, Marist College, N.Y. USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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