GILLIAN ADAIR MCFARLAND
www.gillianadair.co.uk
email: gillian@gillianadair.co.uk
Education:
Art Therapy, Edinburgh
Fine Art Painting, Saint Martins School of Art, London
Experience
2017Honorary Research Fellow , School of Genetics, Leicester University
2015 - presentArtist in Residence De Montfort University, Leicester
2010 - 14 Arts Educator, Holburne Museum and Art Gallery
1999 - 09 Art Therapist , Tayside NHS Trust, Perth
1996 - 98 Artist in Residence, Tayside NHS
1990 - 96Freelance Arts Educator
1986 - 90Curator Contemporary Touring Art Gallery, Fife Education Authority
Awards
2016/17 Arts Council Funded Research Project , Drawing DNA
2016/17 Arts Council Funded Research Project, Curiosity and Creativity
2016 Financial award from Royal Astronomical Society
2015Arts Council Funded Research Project, Experiment
Shortlisted for Attenborough Prize
2013Salisbury Arts Centre Prize Winner
2012 FAB Open,Bath. winner
1998 Council’s Choice SSA
1986Scottish Artists Purchase Award, Royal Scottish Academy
Solo Shows
2017 @Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2016Selected Artist LSA, Cank St Gallery, Leicester
2015 @Collective, Bridge of Allan , Scotland
2014 ‘Here to There” Buchelli Gallery, Bristol
2013 ‘ Blood will Boil” Bath Artist’s Studios
2000 Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenweem Festival,
1997 Scottish Artists Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected exhibitions
2017
Creativity and Curiosity, Christ College, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
“Outlook” @Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
‘ Little Selves’, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
‘ Drawn’ Royal West of England Academy
‘Senses’ Walford Mill, Dorset
2016
New Art, Byre Gallery, Millpoint, CornwalL
Converge, Society OfScottish Artists, Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh
Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield
2015
Paper. Salisbury Art Centre
Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield
Open 26, Leicester
Rosalux, Minneapolos, USA
2014
Society of Scottish Artists Annual exhibitionRSA Edinburgh
Cank Street Gallery Open, Leicester
Bath Artist Studios , Forest of Imagination
Building Volume
Recollection , Holburne Museum and Art Gallery, Bath
2013
Touch Art Fair, Frieze, London
Tamed Marks , Bath Artist Studios
Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
RSA, Edinburgh
RWA, Drawn ,Bristol
Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Salisbury Open, Salisbury Arts Centre.
FAB , Bath
Buchelli Gallery, Bristol
2012
Cork St Open, London
Fabric of the Land Aberdeen
Fab Open, Bath.
SSA Annual Show
2000
James Murray Art Show, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Coffin exhibition, Roseangle Gallery, Dundee
Three Women, Seagate Gallery, Dundee
1987
Edinburgh Scene , Edinburgh City Art Centre
SSA Annual Show, awarded Council’s Choice
RSA Summer Show, Scottish Artists award
Residencies
2017 - 8 month residency, School of Genetics, Leicester University
2016- ongoing Artist in Residence, De Montfort University, Leicester
2014FAB Bath Artists group residency
1997 Artist in Residence, Murray Royal Hospital, Perth
1993 Artist in Schools Residency, Fife
1992 Artist in Residence, Highland Printmakers, Inverness
Commission
2000 Design and carving of Chair, presented to Dundee University on the establishment of a Chair of Women Studies
Works in Collection
Fife Education Authority
Tayside NHS Trust
Dundee University
Kings College London
Dana Oil , Aberdeen
Council Member of Leicester Society of Artists
Trusteeof Bath Artist Studios
Advisory Board Member of Attenborough Arts Centre
Advisory Board Member of Leicester Cathedral Revealed
Trustee of Friends of New Walk