1959 Born in Glasgow
1976-80 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. DA (Painting)
1980-81 Royal Academy of Fine Art, The Hague, Holland (Postgraduate Commendation)
1981-82 University of California at Los Angeles, Visiting Artist
2000 0.5 FTE Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, DJCAD, University of Dundee
2013-23 Programme Director for Art & Philosophy; DJCAD, University of Dundee
2021 Elected to the Royal Scottish Academy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth
2021 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2014 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 Raab Gallery, Berlin
2011 Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2006 Osborne Samuel, London
2005 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 BCA Gallery, London
2000 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 BCA Gallery, London
1999 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1998 Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo
1997 BCA Gallery, London
1995 Raab Boukamel Gallery, London
1994 Galleri Christian Dam, Copenhagen
1994 Raab Boukamel Gallery, London
1993 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1992 Raab Gallery, London
1989 Raab Gallery, London
1988 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1987 The Glasgow Arts Centre
1985 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1984 Main Fine Art, Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now” Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2024 “Amongst the Trees” The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2023 “Scottish Landscape Awards” The City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2023 “Academicians VI” Glasgow Print Studios
2021 “North, South, East, West” Beaux Arts, Bath
2021 “Summer Exhibition” C.C.A. Perth
2020 “Great Scots” The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 “Confluence: Tradition in Contemporary Art” Monclair State University, New Jersey
2019 “Fully Awake” Edinburgh College of Art for Edinburgh Art Festival
2019 “Back to the Drawing Board” Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2017-18 “Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art from 1540 to Now” Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2017 “Through the Woods” Jagged Art, London
2017 “The Vigorous Imagination Revisited” Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2017 “The Vigorous Imagination: Then and Now” Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2017 “Critic’s Choice” Bohun Gallery, Henley upon Thames, London
2016 “Flora Depicta” The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 “Reunion” Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 “September Song” Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2014 Royal Scottish Academy 188th Exhibition, Edinburgh
2013 “Tender and Savage” Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
2011 “DIY: Photographers & Books” Cleveland Art Museum, Ohio
2011 “Surrealism versus the Sublime” Raab Gallery, Berlin
2011 “7 European Artists in Yemen” Royal Geographical Society, London
2011 “7 European Artists in Yemen” Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
2010 “Public Image” Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee
2010 “8 European Artists in Yemen” Bab-al Yemen Gallery, Sana’a, Yemen
2009 Royal Scottish Academy 184th Exhibition RSA Morton Award prize winner
2009 “Inspired” Homecoming Scotland exhibition; Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2008 Royal Scottish Academy 182nd Exhibition
2008 “Scottish Landscape” The Park Gallery, Falkirk
2007 Royal Scottish Academy 181st Exhibition
2005 “The Call of the Sea” Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 “40th Anniversary Exhibition” Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh
2002 “Adapt” Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
2001 “New European Artists” exhibition and book launch, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam
1999 “Mountain” Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum
1998 “Art and Nature” The Botanic Gardens, Cagliari, Sardinia
1998 “Scotland The Brave”, Forbes Galleries, New York
1997 “International Kunst” Galleri Christian Dam, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 “Endangered Spaces”, Christies, London
1996 “Liebe und Poesie”, Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt, Germany
1996 “Die Kraft Der Bilder” Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
1995 Royal Scottish Academy 169th exhibition: 1st Prize RSA Guthrie Award
1994 “Visions of Albion III” Collyer-Bristow, London
1994 “The Glory of the Garden” Art Space, London
1993 “Visions of Albion II” Collyer-Bristow, London
1992 150th anniversary exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1992 “Visions of Albion- Aspects of British Landscape” Collyer-Bristow, London
1991 “20th Century Scottish Painting” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1991 “New Scottish Painting” Galerie Bureaux et Magazins, Ostend, Belgium
1990 Philip Braham, Martin Kane, Barbara Rae – Midlands Contemporary Art
1989 “Il Giocco Dell’Oca” Cagliari, Sardinia
1989 “CITAC” Sala Parpallo/Deputation Ce Valencia, Spain
1987 “20th Century Scottish Masters” The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1987 “The Vigorous Imagination” Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1986 “Scottish Art Today” Edinburgh International Festival
1986 “The Human Touch” Fischer Fine Art, London
1895 “Portraits on Paper” Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition
1985 “Networking” O’Kane Gallery, Houston, Texas
1985 The Smith Biennial, Stirling
AWARDS
2009 Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award for lens-based work
2003 Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Research Bursary
1994 Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy
1989 Scottish Arts Council Award
1985 Educational Institute of Scotland Award
1981 Greenshields Award
1980 British Council Scholarship
COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum
McManus Art Gallery, Dundee
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow
Sunderland Art Gallery
BBC London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Educational Institute of Scotland
Life Association of Scotland
The Fleming Collection, London
Standard Life, Edinburgh
The City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
The Richard Demarco Archive, Edinburgh
University of Dundee Collections
Stirling University Collections
Chichester University Collections
Gallant House Gallery, Chichester