Alison Watt

(British, born 1965)

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Alison Watt

Madame Recamier

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Alison Watt

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Biography

Timeline

1965
Born, Greenock, United Kingdom
1983 - 1987
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
1987 - 1988
Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Studies, Glasgow, UK
2006 - 2008
Associate Artist at The National Gallery, London, UK
2008
Awarded the OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List
Lives and works in Edinburgh, UK.

Exhibitions

2008
Phantom, The Sunley Rooms, The National Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2007
The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, and touring to Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
A North Light – Cynosure, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, UK
Dark Light, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
Dark Light, Pier Art Gallery, Orkney, UK (solo)
2006
Strands, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK
Divided Selves: The Scottish Self-Portrait, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh & The Fleming Collection, London, UK
2004
Picturing Women, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA
Alison Watt, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
Still, Memorial Chapel, Old Saint Paul’s Church, Edinburgh, UK (now permanently installed) (solo)
2003
White: Callum Innes, Alison Watt, Winston Roeth, James Hugonin, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2002
New, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,UK
Fold, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
New Paintings, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2001
Can You Judge a Book by it’s Cover, Scottish National Gallery ofModern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Here + Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
Narcissus, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2000
Shift, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
Expressions, Dundee Contemporary Art, UK
1999
The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
1998
Drawings, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
Londres, Glasgow, Edimbourg, Galerie Rachlin LeMarie, Paris, France
Fold, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, UK (solo)
Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, UK (solo)

Literature

2008
Alison Watt: Phantom, Colin Wiggins and Don Paterson, The National Gallery, London, UK,
2004
Still, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK,
Alison Watt, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. UK
1997
Alison Watt: Paintings 1996-1997, John Calcutt, Momentum Publishing with the Fruitmarket Gallery, UK