Exhibitions and Awards

Awards

1969 Scottish Arts Council Award

1970 Elizabeth Greenshields Award

Exhibitions

1966 – 1969 Part of group exhibitions at R.S.A , S.S.A , and R.S.W . 

1968   Art across the Tay, Dundee Museum and Art Gallery

1969  New Tendencies in Scottish Art, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.

Solo exhibition, Aberdeen Arts Centre.

Three Scottish Painters, Durham University (represented by Demarco Gallery)

1969 – 1972 Various solo exhibitions at Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

1972  Solo exhibition, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
         Work represented at Kunsthandel K, Amsterdam
         Solo exhibition of prints, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh

1973  Solo exhibition, Talbot Rice Arts Centre, University of Edinburgh 

1974  Solo exhibition, Stirling Gallery, Stirling

1975 Six Scottish Coastal Artists, Demarco Gallery, Saltire Society, Edinburgh
        Shed No.50 Gallery, Fife
        Envelopes, J.P.L. Fine Arts, London
        200 Years of Scottish Art, Gilbert Parr Gallery, Kings Road, London

1978 Solo exhibition, LYC Museum, Cumbria
        Edinburgh Arts, the Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne 

1989 20 Paintings – Represented by Demarco Gallery at the Bath Arts Festival
        Solo exhibition, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

Solo exhibition, Artis, Edinburgh.

1980 – 1994

Exhibited work regularly in private gallery at his home in Arbroath

1990 Solo exhibition, Actual Art, Pollença, Mallorca

1991 Solo exhibition, Art Raval, Palma de Mallorca

1992 Solo exhibition, Galeria de arte Jandro, Palma de Mallorca

1994 – 2001 Solo and group exhibitions at Joan Oliver Maneu, Palma de Mallorca and Galeria Bennàssar, Pollença.

2006  Represented in ‘Consider the Lilies – Scottish Painting 1910 – 1980’ at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh which was later also shown at the Fleming Collection, London in 2007.

2008 Represented in Richard Demarco archival display presented by the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh.

Television productions

1971 BBC ‘Breakthrough’ documentary on life as a painter in Scotland.

1974 Grampian Television ‘Images’ documentary. In conversation with James Howie, William Hardie and Cordelia Oliver. Chaired by Richard Demarco.

1992 ‘ Arte’ bulletin T.V,1, Spain.

Portrait by the artist which won the Greenshields Foundation Award in 1970. Collection of the Foundation.

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