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Education: MA, Art Therapy, Edinburgh University
BA hons, Fine art Painting, Saint Martins School of Art
Selected exhibitions
2014 Society of Scottish Artists Annual exhibition RSA Edinburgh
Cank Street Gallery Open, Leicester
Bath Artist Studios , Forest of Imagination
Building Volumes
Recollection , Holburne Museum and Art Gallery, Bath
2013 Touch Art Fair, Frieze, London
Derwent Art Prize, Mall galleries, London
RSA, Edinburgh
RWA, Drawn ,Bristol
Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Salisbury Open, Salisbury Arts Centre. Award winner
FAB , Bath
Buchelli Gallery, Bristol
2012 Cork St Open, London
Fabric of the Land Aberdeen
Fab Open, Bath. Award winner
SSA Annual Show
2000 James Murray Art Show, Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Coffin, Roseangle Gallery Dundee
1987 Edinburgh Scene , Edinburgh City Art Centre
SSA Annual Show, awarded Council’s Choice
RSA Summer Show, Scottish Artists award
Solo shows
2014 ‘Here to There” Buchelli Gallery, Bristol
2013 ‘ Blood will Boil” Bath Artist’s Studios
2000 Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenweem festival, Pittenweem
1997 Scottish Artists Gallery, Edinburgh
Residencies
2014 FAB 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
Awards
2013 Salisbury Arts Centre prize winner
2012 FAB Open winner
1998 Council’s Choice SSA
1986 Scottish Artists purchase award
Gillian McFarland
Painter.
"My work is a response to the detail of life; the familiarity and reassurance of repetitive tasks we all feel safe in and the impact of external and unpredictable factors on these. I am interested in harmful behaviours and the wear and tear of living on ourselves and our environment. Themes of 'wearing out' and 'holding together' through 'puncture pictures' and 'stainings'. I am particularly interested in the paper at the points when it is only just holding together. The ink blots counter the deliberate safety of the repetitive action of pinning. I like the sense of 'risk' inherent in these works and the obvious reference to Rorschach inkblots. The idea of symmetry,of two sides to an image and the replaying of an action or ritual in reverse to close or finish a piece appeals to me. A re-enactment and an opportunity to rewind and reflect on an experience in a different frame. I have begun to explored this a little in the positive and negative images."
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