ALAN ROBB BIOGRAPHY |
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1946 |
Born Glasgow 24 February. |
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1958-1964 | Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. | |
1964-1968 | Grays School of Art, Diploma in Art. | |
1968-1969 | Post-Diploma Drawing & Painting (Highly Commended). | |
1969-1972 | Royal College of Art MA RCA. | |
1972-1975 | Art Master, Oundle School, Peterborough. | |
1975-1982 | Crawford School of Art, Cork, Ireland: 1975-78 Lecturer in Painting. 1978-80 Head of Painting & Two-Dimensional Studies. 1980-82 Head of Fine Art. |
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1983-2003 | Head of School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. | |
1989 | Appointed Professor of Fine Art. | |
2007 | Appointed Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee. | |
2010 | Elected member Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour Scotland RSW. | |
2011 | Elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. | |
1972 | The New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. | |
1973 | Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Peterborough. East Midland Arts, Northampton. |
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1976 | Cork Art Society. | |
1979 | Triskel Art Centre, Cork. | |
1986 | Gallery 22, Cupar, Fife. | |
1991 | The Francis Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Professorial Inaugural Exhibition. | |
1996 | The Seagate Gallery, Dundee “In the Minds Eye“. | |
1997 | Artspace, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen. East-West Gallery, London “True Knowledge“. |
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1999 | East-West Gallery, London “Invention, Illusion and Reality”. | |
2004 | Weem Foundation, Pittenweem, Fife. “Brasil,The Taste of Blood”. | |
2005 | East West, London, “The House of Miracles.” | |
2006 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | |
2007 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | |
2009 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | |
2010 | Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. | |
2012 2017 |
A Painted World: Selected Works 1975-2011, McManus Gallery Dundee (incl Publication) Dadiani Fine Art Cork St. London W1 (see Gallery website)
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1967 & 68 | The Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh. | |
1970 | York University. | |
1971 | The Architectural Association, London. Royal College of Art, London. Napier Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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1972 | Eduardo Paolozzi's Choice of the London Post-graduate shows, Greenwich. The Royal Academy. |
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1977-81 | EVA Limerick. | |
1978 & 80 | Cork Art Society (invited artist). | |
1980 & 82 | Claremorris Open. | |
1996 | Allan Stone Gallery, New York, “Talent”. Bruton Street Gallery, London, with William Crozier. |
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1997 | Mall Galleries, London. ”The Discerning Eye”. | |
2003 | Solomon Gallery Dublin. | |
2004 | Gordon Brown Fine Art Tain. | |
2006-08 | Hamnavoe Gallery Aberdeen with Cairns, Campbell, Colvin, Guild and Guy. | |
2008 | Hanna Fine Art Dundee. | |
2009 | Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh Summer Exhibition. | |
1996 - to date | East West London Xmas and Summer Gallery Shows. | |
1968 - to date | Regular exhibitor: Royal Scottish Academy. Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour. Society of Scottish Artists. Aberdeen Artists Society. |
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1997 | Bruton Street Gallery, London with Ann de Bruyne, Alexandra Haynes and Paul Lightfoot. | |
2009 | Gallery 108 Harrogate “Little Pictures Great Art”. | |
2011 |
East West 20th Anniversary exhibition. Gallery 108 Harrogate. Open Eye Edinburgh. |
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2011
2013-5 2015-6 2016-7
2017 2018 - 9 |
Open Eye. ”Northern Lights”. Agnew, Cairns, Convery, Cocker, Bryce, Dunbar, Fraser, Knox, Leven, McGlashan, McKenzie Smith, Maclean, Walker. Richard Colquhoun Gallery Aberdeen Pentland Gallery Aberdeen McManus Galleries and Museum Dundee." A Sense of Place" a gallery curation of works from the collection ,incl John Houston Will Maclean James Howie William Gillis, John Maxwell, Denis Buchan, Jack Knox Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.136th Annual Exhibition. RSA Edinburgh. Academicians Gallery Royal Scottish Acadeny, Conversations with Paolozzi. (publication Eduardo Paolozzi at large in Edinburgh) Imprint , New prints and Multiples Our Infinate Land (incl publication)
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1978-79 | Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition with Ronald Forbes: 1978 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast. 1978 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. 1978 Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde. 1979 Aberdeen Art Gallery. |
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1985 | Peacock Printmakers Touring Exhibition - "The Art of Thinking", an exhibition designed to demonstrate the thinking behind the creative process Joyce Cairns, Doug Cocker, Sandy Fraser, Jack Knox, Liz Ogilvy. | |
1991 | The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London W.3 May/June. "Allegories of Desire", Beverley Brennan, Vivian Leda-Head, Andrzej Jackowski, David Kori, Arturo di Stefano, Estelle Thompson, Roger Woods. | |
1994 | Centre d'art en l'Ile, Geneva, "5 Scottish Artists", with Elaine Shemilt, Martin Rayner, Grant Clifford and Dennis Buchan. | |
1996 | Gallery Louise Smith, Toronto,"Four Scottish Artists" Grant Clifford, Calum Colvin, Elaine Shemilt. | |
2006 | Cuenca Spain Fondacion Antonio Saura, "Ayermanana/Yestermorrow " 100 European artists in six venues curated by Rosa Pera and Gonzalo Puch for the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca,University of Castille and La Mancha. | |
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1993 |
Decade Show. Supported by Scottish Arts Council and DJCA. Exhibition of 150 graduates in venues throughout Dundee. B#12000 raised in funding. Two commissions supported by the SAC : Alastair MacLennan and David Mach. | |
19989 2013-14 2014-15 |
I Live Now, with Ian Howard, Derrick Guild, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, and Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts. RSA New Contemporaries Convenor "Realised" a curation incl Valerio Adami ,Clare Andrews,Edward Burra, James Castle,Antony Donaldson,Alexander Guy,Derrick Guild, Jon Lyons,,Ian Howard,Alexander Fraser, Heather Nevay, Alan Macdonald,Julie Roberts ,Michael Sandle, Ian Charles Scott, Ruth Stiven Elaine Wilson,Adrian Wiszniewski ... see publication 189th RSA Annual Exhibition . Convenor.
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1968 |
Aberdeen Endowments Trust. |
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1968 |
Hospitalfield Scholarship |
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Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums |
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1978 | Catalogue Arts Council Touring Show. | |
1982 | Irish Contemporary Art, Roderick Knowles, Wolfhound Press, Dublin. Clare Morris Open Catalogue, Peter Jones, Welsh Arts Council. |
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1983 | EVA Catalogue - New Work of Past Winners. | |
1985 | Art of Thinking, Stuart MacDonald, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen. | |
1986 | ALBA, Tom Normand. | |
1996 | In the Mind's Eye, Seagate Gallery, Euan McArthur. funded by Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (a ten year survey) ISBN 1 899837 08 6. | |
1997 | True Knowledge, East-West Gallery, London. Discerning Eye, Independent review. |
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1999 | Illusion, Invention & Reality, East-West Gallery, London. I Live Now, essay by Euan McArthur, Akademie Gallery, Utrecht. |
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2000 | Art Monthly Australia. An interview by Peter Hill. | |
2003 2005 2012 |
A History of Scottish Art The Fleming Collection Bill Smith/ Selina Skipwith/Merrell London. "The House of Miracles" Euan McArthur) funded by EastWestGallery and The Carnegie Trust. ISBN 1 899837 495."A Painted World ". A retrospective : McManus Galleries, Dundee Text Euan McArthur. |
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