HELEN FLOCKHART Arusha Gallery | [email protected] | 0131 557 1412 BIOGRAPHY Following her attainment of a first-class undergraduate degree in painting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1984, Helen Flockhart took up postgraduate study with the British Council at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland. Boasting an impressive resume of solo exhibitions, spanning both Scotland and England, as well as group shows in New York, Ontario, Rotterdam, London and Truro, Flockhart was recently awarded the Concept Fine Art Award (2016), the Royal Scottish Academy’s Maude Gemmel Hutchinson Prize (2012), and the Lyon and Turnbull Award presented by the Royal Glasgow Institute (2012). A fellow of the Glasgow Art Club (as of 1997), Flockhart’s works belong to such prestigious collections as the Fleming Collection, the Scottish Arts Council, Strathclyde University and the Lillie. Bill Hare, teaching fellow of Modern and Contemporary Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh, praises her work. ‘Nobody paints like Helen Flockhart’, he writes: ‘here the mundane and the mythical are at one with each other’. Hers are works which break with established convention -- a blend of portrait and landscape, Flockhart’s paintings are verdant, fantastical paeans to that particularist genre of British myth making centered on pastures, mountains and divinity. Indeed, there is something Blakean about her work -- a warmth of vision borne of what appears simultaneous ancient and modern. EDUCATION 1985-1986 Studied painting at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland 1985 Awarded Diploma in Postgraduate Studies, Highly Commended 1984 Awarded BAHons, First Class 1980-1985 Studied painting at Glasgow School of Art SOLO 2018/19 EXHIBITIONS Linger Awhile, Linlithgow Burgh Halls 2018 Linger Awhile, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh 2017 In the Morning it is Green, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh 2015 NOCTURNE, REBECCA HOSSACK GALLERY, LONDON 2013 Swan Like, Compass Gallery, Glasgow 2011 Fire and Fauna, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2009 Back to the Garden, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2006 Marigold, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2003 Dryland, Wetlands, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2001 Maze, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2000 Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow 1999 Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1997 Flock, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1995 Sweetness and Darkness, Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1993 Base weed in bloom, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1991 Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews 1990 “New Paintings”, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 1993 Galeria A.T., Poznan, Poland SELECTED 2020 GROUP/JOINT Beasts, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh EXHIBITIONS 21st Century Women, Backdoor Gallery, Glasgow 2019 Allusion IV, RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow 2018 Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition: Figurative Art Today, Mall Galleries, London 2017 Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, The Mitchell, Glasgow 2016 Discerning Eye Triforium Exhibition, The Temple Church, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason, 1945 to the present, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh Paisley Art Institute 128th Annual Exhibition, Paisley Art Gallery and Museum Woman’s Work: Artists in the collection of Terri Lipman, Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada W Gordon Smith Award Exhibition, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, The Mitchell, Glasgow 2014 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition Strut: The Peacock in Beauty and Art, Hudson River Museum, New York PAGE 2 2013 At Land, Market Gallery, Glasgow Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibitoin, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow An Intimate Relationship: Women Artists in the Collection of Terri Lipman, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada 2012 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, Glasgow, The Mitchell, Glasgow Londinium – A London Pageant, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2011 Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, The Mitchell, Glasgow 2010 Spectators, Helen Flockhart, Peter Thomson and Heather Nevay, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2009 Inspired, Scottish Art from the Fleming Collection, the Fleming Collection, London 2008 Helen Flockhart, Peter Thomson and Heather Nevay, Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow The Glasgow School of Painting, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall 2006 Divided Selves, the Scottish self portrait from the 17th Century to the present day, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Fleming Collection, London The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Invited artist: invited by Helena Kennedy 2002 Helen Flockhart and Peter Thomson Cricket Hill Gallery, New York 1999 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, invited artist: invited by Duncan Shanks 1997 Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, Glasgow, MLlellan Galleries, Glasgow Royal Overseas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition, Edinburgh 1993 Through Women’s Eyes, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh Reflections, Exhibition by the Spectator, Mall Galleries, London 1991 Helen Flockhart and Amitae Ben David, Galerie Het Veem, Rotterdam 1989 Helen Flockhart and Kay Maclean, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow AWARDS AND 2016 GRANTS Concept Fine Art Award, Paisley Art Institutes 2014 Elected RGI PAGE 3 2012 Lyon and Turnbull Award, Royal Glasgow Institute Royal Scottish Academy Maude Gemmell Hutchinson Prize 2006 Humphreys Prize, Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2000 Noble Grossart/Scotland on Sunday painting competition, First Prize Fellowship of Glasgow Art Club Royal Overseas League Award, for an artist living and working in Scotland 1997 Armor Award, Royal Glasgow Institute 1996 Purchase Prize, Smith Art Gallery and Museum Stirling for their Brave Art exhibition 1992 Grant from the Pollok-Krasner Foundation, New York Inverclyde Biennial, Maclean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Second Prize 1991 Scottish Arts Council assistance grant 1989 Scottish Arts Council Bursary 1985 British Council Scholarship to study at the State Higher School of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland 1984 Emmy Sachs Prize for Drawing COLLECTIONS Glasgow Museums Fleming Collection London Scottish Arts Council City Arts Centre Edinburgh Dick Institute Kilmarnock Smith Art Gallery and Museum Stirling Strathclyde University Glasgow Aberdeen Asset Management The Lillie Collection PAINTINGS IN Catalogue of "Linger Awhile" available from Arusha Gallery with 28 colour images and an PUBLICATIONS essay by Louisa Elderton, 2018 "Scottish Artists In An Age of Radical Change, 1945 to the 21st century" by Bill Hare 2019 with image of "Suffer Or Strike" and "Crooked Rib" plus an essay and interview by Bill Hare. "Londinium", book to accompany the exhibition published by Rebecca Hossack Gallery with image of "Tyger" "Inspired", published by The Fleming-Wyfold Foundation, 2010. Image of "Canute" 1997 and essay by Matthew Sturgis. "Divided Selves", published by The Fleming-Wyfold Foundation, 2006, written by Bill Hare and Polly Bielecka. Image of "Self Portrait" 1999. PAGE 4 "A History of Scottish Art", published by Merrel Publishers Ltd, 2003, written by Selina Skipwith and Bill Smith. Image of "Canute" 1997. "Scottish Art in the 20th Century", published by Mainstream Publishing, 1994, written by Duncan Macmillan. Image of "Woman holding flower" 1992. "Transmission", published by Black Dog Publishing, 2000. Image of Untitled Sculpture 1985. "South by South West", published by East Ayrshire Council on behalf of the Future Museum Partnership, 2008. Image of "The Plunderer", 1995. "Look”, published by the Arts-Museums Service of East Ayrshire Council, 2005. “Image of "The Plunderer", 1995. PAGE 5 .