ARTIST BIOGRAPHY – ROBERT MACLAURIN Robert Maclaurin is a prize winning landscape painter with an international reputation. A Menzies Fellowship in 1995-6 at the late Clifton Pugh's Dunmoochin Foundation Studio brought Maclaurin to Australia. He has made his permanent home and studio just outside Castlemaine since 2001. Well known for his impressive landscapes, and widely collected in Europe and America, Maclaurin exhibits regularly with gallery representation in London and Edinburgh. “You feel Maclaurin’s engagement with the earth, his feeling for its fragile, living surface. These paintings are as all true landscape should be; images of the real world, but metaphoric, lit by memory and enlarged by imagination, by sympathy and so ultimately by awe at the grandeur of what the Artist has experienced.” Prof. Duncan Macmillan, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Qualifications 1979-83 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, BA (Hons) in Drawing & Painting 1983-84 Edinburgh College of Art, Postgraduate Diploma (with distinction) Drawing and Painting, ECA Postgraduate School Selected Awards, Commissions, Prizes 2005 First prize James Farrell portrait award, Castlemaine 2002 Scottish National Portrait Gallery – commissioned to paint Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer 1998 First prize winner Noble Grossart painting prize, Scotland 1995 Sir Robert Menzies fellowship – painting Australia 1990 Royal Overseas League Salisbury Festival painting prize 1989 Scholarship – International weeks of painting, Slovenia 1986 Hunting Group painting prize – Young prize winner 1984 Turkish Government scholarship to Istanbul painting 1984 Royal Scottish Academy travelling scholarship to Tuscany and Umbria, Italy Selected solo Exhibitions 2011 Penny School Gallery, Maldon, Victoria – paintings and etchings (Castlemaine Festival) 2009 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh – paintings and etchings 2008 Osborne Samuel, London – paintings 2008 Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum – paintings and etchings 2007 Axia Modern Art, Melbourne - paintings 2007 Penny School Gallery, Maldon – paintings (Castlemaine Festival) 2006 Osborne Samuel, London – paintings 2005 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh - paintings 2003 Berkeley Square Gallery, London - paintings 2001 Berkeley Square Gallery, London - paintings 1999 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh International Festival - paintings 1999 Berkeley Square Gallery, London - paintings 1998 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia - paintings 1997 Berkeley Square Gallery, London - paintings 1997 Compass Gallery, Glasgow - works on paper 1995 Glasgow Print Studio Gallery - paintings and prints 1994 Kirkcaldy Art Gallery & Museum - paintings Durham City Art Gallery - paintings 1993 Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland – paintings Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop & Gallery - etchings 1993 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London - paintings 1991 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London - paintings 1991 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh - works on paper 1990 Berkeley Square Gallery, London – paintings 1989 369 Gallery, Edinburgh – paintings 1987 Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh - paintings Forthcoming solo Exhibitions 2012 Osborne Samuel, London – paintings 2012 Axia Modern, Melbourne - paintings Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Rick Amor Print Prize, Montsalvat Gallery, Melbourne 2011 ‘Biting Issues’, Cascade Print Workshop and Gallery, Maldon (Castlemaine Festival) 2011 ‘Scottish Painters in Australia’ – 10 painters, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum 2010 Mt Alexander Shire Artists represented in the permanent collection, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum, Australia 2010 ‘Approach to the Landscape 2010’, 5 painters – Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia 2009 ‘Scottish Painters’ – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2008 ‘The Face of Scotland’ – Scottish National Portrait Gallery Touring Exhibition 2008 ‘Approach to the Landscape 2008’ – Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia 2008 ‘Scottish Artists’ – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2006-7 ‘Scottish Artists’ – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2005 James Farrell Self-portrait prize exhibition, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum, Australia 2003-6 ‘Scottish Artists’ - Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 2005 Birds Australia, Newhaven Exhibition, Uber Gallery, Melbourne 2003 En Plein Air Panels- Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia 2003 30 years Anniversary Exhibition- Selected Artists at The Bohun Gallery 2002-3 500 Fridays, 10 years of Contemporary Australian en plein air painting - A Celebration - Geelong Gallery (touring) 2002 On Top of the World-Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 2001 Scottish Landscapes - Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.) 2001 New Work From Scotland- Bohun Gallery, Henley-on - Thames, England 2000 On Land - Scottish Travelling Gallery (touring Scotland) Marie R - curated by Ian Macfarlane, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh. Expressions - Scottish Art 1976 - 1989 (touring Aberdeen Art Gallery, McManus Galleries, Dundee and Dundee Contemporary Arts) 1999/00 Connections- Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh International Festival 1998 Hunting Group Art Prize Exhibition - Royal College of Art, London This Island Earth - An Tuireann Art Centre, Portree, Skye 1997 10 Years - International Weeks Of Painting, Celje Museum, Slovenia 1996/8 Noble Grossart Art Prize Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh & Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art 1996 Sightlines - Honiton Festival Exhibition, Devon, England 1995 New Territories - Art from Australia, Jason & Rhodes, London 1994 Three Artists & Travel - Kirkcaldy Art Gallery & Museum (touring) 1993 Counterpointing, New Art from Scotland - The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh International Festival Exhibition 1992 Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop & Gallery 1991-93 Art under Thirty - FAIR International Prize Exhibition (touring Milan, Rome, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles ) 1991 Scottish Colourists, Old and New - Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery 1990 Painting The Forth Bridge, Centenary - 369 Gallery, Edinburgh (touring) 1989-90 International Weeks of Painting ( touring Ljublijana, Zagreb, Celje Maribor, Gratz ) Scottish Art since 1900 - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh & Barbican Arts Centre, London. 1988 New Scottish Painting - 3 persons at Art In General, New York, USA Collections The Artist has major works of art in the following collections: Coopers Lybrand Deloitte; Contemporary Art Society (London, UK); Edinburgh City Arts Centre; Edinburgh College of Art Collection; Ernst & Young; Flemings / Wyfold Scottish Art Foundation; former Hewlett Packard Collection; Kovinotekna Collection (Slovenia); Anglo – American (London); The Greater Manchester City Art Collection; McKenna & Co.; Paintings in Hostpitals, Scotland; Pearl Assurance plc; Phillips Petroleum (London); Royal Bank of Scotland; The Queen’s Royal Collection, UK; Hospitalfield House Art Collection; ( Former Scottish Arts Council Collection); Kirkcaldy Art Galleries & Museum; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Standard Life Assurance Company; Tetrapak; Unilever plc; University of Edinburgh Art Collection; Paris Banque; Hamson Consultants ( Australia ); Pioneer International ( Australia ); Scottish Government Collection, St Andrews House, Edinburgh; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum (Australia) The Artist has work in important private collections Worldwide Teaching Although a full time career artist, Robert Maclaurin has taught as a visiting lecturer in Art Schools and Institutions across the UK, Europe and Australia, including Edinburgh College of Art, Dundee Art College, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. The Slade School, London, Sunderland Art College, England. Mimar Sinan Universities, Istanbul, Turkey. RMIT Melbourne. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Selected Bibliography (articles and catalogues) The Age, A2 The Critics ‘A great dividing Strangeness’ – Andrew Stephens, 19 April 2008 Osborne Samuel – New Paintings, catalogue, 2006 Birds Australia, Newhaven Art Exhibition, catalogue, October 2005 Back to The Heart, The Weekend Australian, 30-31 July 2005 New Work at Gallery, Castlemaine Mail, 12 November 2004 Macmillan, Duncan, From the ridiculous…..Scotsman, 13 January 2004 500 Fridays, Sunday Program, Nine Network, Australia, 1 May 2003 Berkeley Square Gallery – New Paintings, 2003 catalogue From Chewton to London, Castlemaine Mail, Australia, 19 September 2003 Nelson, Robert, Landscape painting no picnic outing, The Age, Melbourne, 8 February 2003 Millar, Ronald, 500 Fridays – Contemporary Plein Air Painting, Geelong Gallery, Victoria – exhibition catalogue, 2002 Moore, Richard, At the height of his powers, The Herald, Glasgow, 27 October 2002 Scottish Landscapes, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh – exhibition catalogue, 2001 Cameron, Neil, Spirit of the Place, The Scotsman, 6 March 2001 Mahoney, Elisabeth, Pretty Vacant, The Scotsman Festival Magazine,10 August 1999 Ingelby, Richard, Private View, The Independent, 14 August 1999 Henry, Clare, These Lands are our Lands, The Herald, Glasgow, 9 August 1999 Packer, William, Nothing Beats the True Experience, Financial Times, 21 August 1999 Macmillan, Duncan, Terra Nullius, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Berkeley Square Gallery, London - exhibition catalogue essay, 1999 Gale, Iain, Echoes of the Outback, Spectrum, Scotland on Sunday, 1 November 1998 Timms, Peter, Taking Another Look at the Landscape, The Age, Melbourne, 4 March 1998 Macmillan,