Judith Rowan BA(Hons) Fine Art SSA

Curriculum Vitae

Training:

1996-2000 Cumbria College of Art and Design. BA(Hons) Fine Art BTEC Dip. Fine Art Foundation (FE Student Award for Personal Achievement) 1994-1996 School of Art,

Solo Exhibitions:

2008 Missing. John Muir's Birthplace. Dunbar, East Lothian 2008 Missing. Peter Potter's Gallery. Haddington, East Lothian

Selected Mixed / Open Exhibitions:

2012 Edinburgh Pinhole Festival. Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Lo-Fi Group Exhibition. Urban Outfitters store, Edinburgh Annual Exhibition. Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) 2011 Annual Open Exhibition. (RSA) Simulacrum. Elysium Gallery, Swansea Herring Road. Peter Potter’s Gallery Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict. Banff & Buchan Arts Forum (COAST), Macduff 2010 Christmas Print Exhibition. Contemporary Arts Annual Open Exhibition. Royal Glasgow Institute Winter Open Exhibition. RSA 2009 Spring Open. RSA 2008 New Scots. RSA 2007 Small works for Christmas. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Annual Open Exhibition. Society of Scottish Artists 2006-2007 Christmas Exhibition. Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Annual Open Exhibition. RSA Annual Open Exhibition. Visual Arts As Others See Us. SSA 2005-2006 Open Exhibition. RSA Small works for Christmas. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. 2003-2004 Original prints by invited printmakers. Stenton Gallery Christmas Exhibition 2004. Edinburgh Printmakers Celebration. SSA The Fine Art of Printmaking, touring exhibition. Scottish Borders Museums 2002-2003 On a Small Scale. Open Eye Gallery Moving Solutions. SSA touring exhibition to art.tm, Inverness/Bonhoga, Shetland Words on the Wall. Prints for Christmas. Beatrice Royal Art Galley, Southampton Castlegate House Gallery. Cockermouth, Cumbria Dundee Print Open. Summer Exhibition, Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem Ulverston Printfest, Cumbria 2nd Edition, DCA CATS Artists, The Meffan Gallery, Forfar London Small Print International Biennale. Morley Gallery Northern Graduates. New Academy Gallery, London Harlech Printmaking Open. Wales and SSA at the RSA 1999 New Faces 1999. The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh For Lo, Winter is Past. The Tabernacle, Museum od Modern Art for Wales The Sky, the Sea and the Bit in Between. Burton Museum and Art Gallery, Bideford 1998 Herefordshire Annual Open Photography Festival

Work in Public Collections:

2000 Paintings in Hospitals Scotland 1999 Corporate Commission. Cairn Energy plc. Edinburgh

Awards:

2001 Funding for plein-air printmaking research. The Hope Scott Trust and Scottish Borders Council Arts Award 2000 Society of Scottish Artists Website Award for collagraph prints.

Miscellaneous:

Art Root, Dunbar inaugural Open Studios, 2011.

One of three invited artists, ceramicist Lucy Dunce’s Open Studio, 2011.

Book collaboration Place, Memory and Identity. , . May 2009.

Collaborated with two other artists on The Outer Fringe. Exhibition in two beach huts and surrounding beach installation, Dunbar. Featured small artworks for sale, by twenty professional artists from East Lothian, 2007.

Shortlisted for national art exhibition 50 over 50, Brighton University Art Gallery, July 2006.

Prints included in Tweed Rivers Anthology (25 artists and writers). Pocketbook series, distributed by Luarth Press, 2005.

Elected Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists 2003, serving on its council 2004-2008.

Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio . Creative and Technical Training Skills (CATS) etching course. Bursary from the Scottish Arts Council/ Lottery 2002.

Collaborated with eleven other printmakers from Scotland and France, Signs of the Zodiac book, Exhibited in both countries 2002.

Prints included in The Watering Journal (limited edition), published by Two Rivers Press, 2001.