| RECENT WORK | ARCHIVE | BIOGRAPHY | ESSAYS | PRESS | CONTACT |
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ALAN ROBB
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1946 |
Born Glasgow 24 February. |
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1958-1964 |
Robert Gordon's College,
Aberdeen. |
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| 1964-1968 | Grays School of Art, Diploma in Art. | ||
| 1968-1969 | Post-Diploma Drawing & Painting (Highly Commended). | ||
| 1969-1972 | Royal College of Art MA RCA. | ||
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1972-1975 |
Art Master, Oundle
School, Peterborough. |
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| 1975-1982 | Crawford School of Art,
Cork, Ireland: 1975-78 Lecturer in Painting. 1978-80 Head of Painting & Two-Dimensional Studies. 1980-82 Head of Fine Art. |
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| 1983-2003 | Head of School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. | ||
| 1989 | Appointed Professor of Fine Art. | ||
| 2007 | Appointed Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee. | ||
| 2010 | Elected member Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour Scotland RSW. | ||
| 2011 | Elected to the Royal Scottish Academy. | ||
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1972 |
The New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. | ||
| 1973 | Yarrow Gallery, Oundle,
Peterborough. East Midland Arts, Northampton. |
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| 1976 | Cork Art Society. | ||
| 1979 | Triskel Art Centre, Cork. | ||
| 1986 | Gallery 22, Cupar, Fife. | ||
| 1991 | The Francis Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Professorial Inaugural Exhibition. | ||
| 1996 | The Seagate Gallery, Dundee “In the Minds Eye“. | ||
| 1997 | Artspace, Peacock
Printmakers, Aberdeen. East-West Gallery, London “True Knowledge“. |
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| 1999 | East-West Gallery, London “Invention, Illusion and Reality”. | ||
| 2004 | Weem Foundation, Pittenweem, Fife. “Brasil,The Taste of Blood”. | ||
| 2005 | East West, London, “The House of Miracles.” | ||
| 2006 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | ||
| 2007 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | ||
| 2009 | Hamnavoe Gallery, Aberdeen. | ||
| 2010 | Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. | ||
| 2012 | A Painted World: Selected Works 1975-2011, McManus Gallery Dundee. | ||
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| 1967 &
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The Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh. | ||
| 1970 | York University. | ||
| 1971 | The Architectural
Association, London. Royal College of Art, London. Napier Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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| 1972 | Eduardo Paolozzi's Choice
of the London Post-graduate shows, Greenwich. The Royal Academy. |
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| 1977-81 | EVA Limerick. | ||
| 1978 & 80 | Cork Art Society (invited artist). | ||
| 1980 & 82 | Claremorris Open. | ||
| 1996 | Allan Stone Gallery, New
York, “Talent”. Bruton Street Gallery, London, with William Crozier. |
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| 1997 | Mall Galleries, London. ”The Discerning Eye”. | ||
| 2003 | Solomon Gallery Dublin. | ||
| 2004 | Gordon Brown Fine Art Tain. | ||
| 2006-08 | Hamnavoe Gallery Aberdeen with Cairns, Campbell, Colvin, Guild and Guy. | ||
| 2008 | Hanna Fine Art Dundee. | ||
| 2009 | Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh Summer Exhibition. | ||
| 1996 - to date | East West London Xmas and Summer Gallery Shows. | ||
| 1968 - to date | Regular exhibitor: Royal Scottish Academy. Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour. Society of Scottish Artists. Aberdeen Artists Society. |
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| 1997 | Bruton Street Gallery, London with Ann de Bruyne, Alexandra Haynes and Paul Lightfoot. | ||
| 2009 | Gallery 108 Harrogate “Little Pictures Great Art”. | ||
| 2010 | East West 20th
Anniversary exhibition. Gallery 108 Harrogate. Open Eye Edinburgh. |
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| 2011 | Open Eye. ”Northern
Lights”. Agnew, Cairns, Convery, Cocker, Bryce,
Dunbar, Fraser, Knox, Leven, McGlashan, McKenzie Smith,
Maclean, Walker. Fraser Gallery St. Andrews. |
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1978-79 |
Scottish Arts Council
Touring Exhibition with Ronald Forbes: 1978 Arts Council Gallery, Belfast. 1978 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. 1978 Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde. 1979 Aberdeen Art Gallery. |
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| 1985 | Peacock Printmakers Touring Exhibition - "The Art of Thinking", an exhibition designed to demonstrate the thinking behind the creative process Joyce Cairns, Doug Cocker, Sandy Fraser, Jack Knox, Liz Ogilvy. | ||
| 1991 | The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London W.3 May/June. "Allegories of Desire", Beverley Brennan, Vivian Leda-Head, Andrzej Jackowski, David Kori, Arturo di Stefano, Estelle Thompson, Roger Woods. | ||
| 1994 | Centre d'art en l'Ile, Geneva, "5 Scottish Artists", with Elaine Shemilt, Martin Rayner, Grant Clifford and Dennis Buchan. | ||
| 1996 | Gallery Louise Smith, Toronto,"Four Scottish Artists" Grant Clifford, Calum Colvin, Elaine Shemilt. | ||
| 2006 | Cuenca Spain Fondacion Antonio Saura, "Ayermanana/Yestermorrow " 100 European artists in six venues curated by Rosa Pera and Gonzalo Puch for the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca,University of Castille and La Mancha. | ||
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| 1993 |
Decade Show. Supported by
Scottish Arts Council and DJCA. Exhibition of 150 graduates
in venues throughout Dundee. B#12000 raised in funding.
Two commissions supported by the SAC b Alastair
MacLennan and David Mach. |
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| 1998 | I Live Now, with Ian Howard, Derrick Guild, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, and Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts. | ||
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1968 |
Aberdeen Endowments
Trust. |
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| 1968-1972 | Robert Nicol Trust Award for post-graduate study. | ||
| 1977 | 1st Prize Painting, Irish Open Exhibition, of Visual Art, Limerick. | ||
| 1982 | 1st Prize Painting, Clare Morris Open. | ||
| 1989 | Commendation, Aberdeen Artists. | ||
| 2000 | Scottish Arts Club Award,
RSA. William J. MacAulay Prize - Scottish Gallery Award, RSA. |
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| 2005 | Carnegie Travelling Scholarship. | ||
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1968 |
Hospitalfield Scholarship |
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Collections |
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1978 |
Catalogue Arts Council Touring Show. | ||
| 1982 | Irish Contemporary Art,
Roderick Knowles, Wolfhound Press, Dublin. Clare Morris Open Catalogue, Peter Jones, Welsh Arts Council. |
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| 1983 | EVA Catalogue - New Work of Past Winners. | ||
| 1985 | Art of Thinking, Stuart MacDonald, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen. | ||
| 1986 | ALBA, Tom Normand. | ||
| 1996 | In the Mind's Eye, Seagate Gallery, Euan McArthur. funded by Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (a ten year survey) ISBN 1 899837 08 6. | ||
| 1997 | True Knowledge, East-West
Gallery, London. Discerning Eye, Independent review. |
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| 1999 | Illusion, Invention &
Reality, East-West Gallery, London. I Live Now, essay by Euan McArthur, Akademie Gallery, Utrecht. |
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| 2000 | Art Monthly Australia. An interview by Peter Hill. | ||
| 2003 | A History of Scottish Art The Fleming Collection Bill Smith/ Selina Skipwith/Merrell London. | ||
| 2005 | "The House of Miracles" Euan McArthur) funded by East West Gallery and The Carnegie Trust. ISBN 1 899837 495. | ||
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