Modern Art

Born in Hawick, 1969

Lives and works in Glasgow

Education
1994–96

Master of Painting

Royal College of Art, London

1990–93

BA (Hons) Fine Art

Grays School of Art, Aberdeen

1989–90

Manchester Polytechnic

Manchester

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023

What made you stop here?

Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield

Never a joiner

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2022

If you see something that doesn’t look right

Modern Art, London

2021

Waiting for the Bell

Karma, New York, NY, USA

2018

But the dream had no sound

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2017

If I was a Carpenter and other stories

Wilkinson Gallery, London

2016

Henderson Blyth’s Drawer

Look Again: Visual Art and Design Festival, Aberdeen

Paintings from a room

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Upper Church Gallery

Summerhall, Edinburgh

2015

Rob Tufnell

London

2014

Who is this who is coming?

Display Gallery, London

2013

What to do after a death in Scotland

Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2010

Hamish Morrison Galerie

Berlin, Germany

2009

International Project Space

Bourneville College, Birmingham

2002

Mappin Art Gallery

Sheffield

1998

Happy Hunting Ground

Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Modern Art

Paris, France

The Inner Island

Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France

The Moth and The Thunderclap, curated by Simon Grant

Modern Art, London

Twenty-five

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2022

To be a giant and keep quiet about it

Margot Samel, New York, NY, USA

2021

On Leaving

Modern Art, London

Dear John

Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, USA

2020

HOME

Ingleby, Edinburgh

(Nothing But) Flowers

Karma, New York, NY, USA

2019

Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island

Sipgate Shows, Dusseldorf, Germany

Du Coq A L’ane

Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France

Painters Beach Club: Telescope

Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

2018

TWENTY

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Zeros to Heroes: The Beta Band Archive

J Hammond Projects, London

Lovers and other spectres

Kingsgate Project Space, London

2016

Outside

Karma, Amagansett, NY, USA

2014

Mac International

Mac Arts Centre, Belfast

2013

Between the late and Early

RSA, Edinburgh

2012

John Moores Painting Prize

Walker Art Gallery

Dorian Gray

Second Guest Projects and Ana Christea Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011

Hurricane Lamb

Duff House, Banff

Courtesy of Objects - guest artist in Marc Camille Chaimowitz exhibition

Norwich Gallery, Norwich

2009

EAST International

Norwich Gallery, Norwich

2008

This Dark Ceiling

Intermedia Gallery, C.C.A, Glasgow

Interieur

Ute Parduhn Gallery, Dusseldorf

2007

EAST International

Norwich Gallery, Norwich

2003

Oriel Mostyn 13

Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno

Sometime Blonde

Rockwell, London

1999

In the Summertime

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Poster Show

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA; Cabinet Gallery, London

Selected Collections

Aishti Foundation

Antelias, Lebanon

Arenski Collection

London

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Artemis Collection

Paris, France

Economou Collection

Athens, Greece

Hall Art Foundation

Reading, VT, USA

Hawick Museum

Hawick

He Art Museum

Foshan, Guangdong, China

The Hepworth Wakefield

Wakefield

Hiscox Collection

London

Huamo Museum

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Institute of Contemporary Art

Miami, FL, USA

LACMA

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Loewe Foundation

Madrid, Spain

National Gallery of Scotland

Edinburgh

Portland Art Museum

Portland, OR, USA

Robert Gordon University

Aberdeen

Royal College of Art

London

Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture

Edinburgh

Unilever Collection

London