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CV (Curricilum Vitae)

Qualifications



1993 Master of Fine Art - Painting
Edinburgh College of Art
1991 B.A. Hons. Drawing and Painting
Edinburgh College of Art

Awards



2019 South of Scotland Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award
In Partnership with Creative Scotland
2015 Visual Artist and Craft Makers Awards:
South of Scotland 2014-15
2014 Creative Place 2014 Commission
Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Peebles
2013 The Edinburgh Lasercutting Studio Prize
SSA 2013
2012 CABN/con-TEXT Residency
Heriot Watt University, School of Textiles and Design, Galashiels
2011 Cabn/Creative Scotland Visual Artists Award
2008 Deloitte & Touche LLP Award
SSA Annual Exhibition
Scottish Natural Heritage - research award
Scottish Borders Council - research award
2005 The Evelyn William Trust - Bursary : Drawing Quarters 2005
University of West of England
2004 The Hope Scott Trust - research award
Scottish National Heritage- research award
2000 Society of Scottish Artists
Edinburgh Printmakers Research Award
1993 John Florent Stone Scholarship
1991 Angus Award for Landscape - RSA student exhibition
Borders Biennial - Commended

Memberships



1996 Professional Member of Society of Scottish Artists

Exhibitions



2024 A Life in Art – Liz Douglas. Meffan Museum & Art Gallery, Forfar, Angus.
2023 Landscape - A Closer Look. Peebles Museum & Gallery, Peebles, Scottish Borders.
2022 On Paper & Gallery, Edinburgh
Solo Show - & Gallery, Edinburgh
2020 Tides Changing | Changing Tides, SSA, Edinburgh
& Gallery Winter Exhibition
2020 & Gallery Winter Exhibition
October-March: 'Tools for Survival' - Hawick Museum
2019 August: 'Tools for Survival' - a visual conversation Wasps Briggait, Glasgow
August-September: Utopia - Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries: a curated SSA project
2018 May-June: Encounter – Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay – a joint exhibition with Susie Leiper
2017 April-June: 'Intranquility' - Tweeddale Museum, Peebles - curated SSA project
April-May: Outlook, mixed exhibition - And Gallery, Edinburgh
February: 'Intranquility' Dunfermline Fire Creative - curated SSA project
2016 June-August: 'Intranquility' An Talla Solais, Ullapool - a group curated exhibition
2015 November: The Debateable Landscape - Hawick Museum Gallery
October: Wasps Open Studios - Selkirk
July-August: Empire: SSA curated exhibition - Old Rope Works, Montrose
June: The Steading Exhibition - Morebattle Mains, Kelso
March-April: & Collective Bridge of Allan
2012 'Hidden Stories' - reconstructed studio, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
SBC Touring Exhibition
January-March
Swanson Gallery, Wick
Inverness Museum and Gallery
SSA
2011 ‘Way’ Art Installations - Over Phawhope Bothy - NT182082
'Mire' - Harestanes, Ancrum, Jedburgh
2010 'The Shape of Things' - Mainhill Gallery at Harestanes
'Seeds of Time' - Tweeddale Museum, Chambers Institute, Peebles
2008 Interface - The Meffan, Forfar
September-October - SSA
2006 Seeds of Time 2 - Peebles Museum
Mainhill Gallery - Ancrum / Harestanes
SSA
2005 Willowlines - new work from Ettrick Haughland
SSA
2004 Collyer-Bristow Gallery - London
WASPS - Chambers Institute, Peebles
SSA
2003 SSA Annual Exhibition
2001-2004 Interface - Sci-Art Touring Exhibition: Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Kilmarnock, Wick, St Andrews, Galashiels
2000 SSA / Art 2000
2003 SSA Annual Exhibition
1999 Seeds of Time - new work
Harestanes Environmental Centre, Ancrum , Jedburgh
SSA
Glasgow Art Fair
Art 99
1998 Seeds of Time - Chambers Institute, Peebles
Wildwood - The Gallery, Chambers Institute, Peebles
1997 Double Exposure - a collaboration with Society of Scottish Artists and Grampian Hospitals Trust - Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Norrie Toch Studios - Gullane - collaboration
Exhibition with SSA
1996 Summerhouse Exhibition - Dryburgh
‘A Sense of Place’ - SSA Smiths Gallery, Stirling - invited artist
1995 'Written on the Rock’ - new work from the Yarrow Valley - Robson Gallery, Selkirk
1994 ‘A Sense of Time’ - work from the Yarrow Valley - Harestanes Countryside Centre, Jedburgh
1993 Eastern General Hospital Exhibition - recent graduate work
Festival Exhibition - ECA
1992 ‘A Sense of Place’ - Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
‘Looking at Landscape’ Old Gala House, Galashiels
Exhibition of Drawings - Belgrade Academy
1991 Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition
Borders Biennial - Chambers Institute, Peebles
1990 Royal Scottish Academy - Student Exhibition
1989 Flying Colours Gallery - Edinburgh

Works in Public and Private Collections

  • Standard Life
  • Edinburgh College of Art
  • The National Trust for Scotland
  • Scottish Borders Council
  • Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland
  • Flying Colours Gallery
  • East and Midlothian Art Fund
  • Capital Solutions
  • Eildon Group
  • Barclays Bank

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