biography
Jock McFadyen was born in Paisley in 1950. He studied at Chelsea Art School, and lives and works in London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2010 | Clifford Chance, London |
| 2009 | The Grey Gallery, London |
| 2007 | 11 Princelet Street, London The Grey Gallery, London Wolverhampton Art Gallery The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh Festival |
| 2005 | Roadworks, Rude Wercs, London Roadworks, Scottish Gallery Projects, Edinburgh Festival |
| 2005 | Roadworks, Rude Wercs, London Roadworks, Scottish Gallery Projects, Edinburgh Festival |
| 2001 | Agnew’s, London, to coincide with the publication of Jock
McFadyen: A Book About a Painter by David Cohen, published by Lund Humphries |
| 1999 | The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney |
| 1998 | Tegnerforbundet Galleri, Oslo Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Urbasuburba with Humphrey Ocean Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London |
| 1997 | Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Whitworth Gallery, Manchester |
| 1996 | Galleri 27, Oslo |
| 1995 | The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop |
| 1994 | Galleri 27, Oslo |
| 1992 | Manchester City Art Gallery Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1991 | The Imperial War Museum, London William Jackson Gallery, London Austin Desmond Fine Art, London |
| 1989 | The Scottish Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1986 | Touring exhibition, Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland; Birmingham Museum
and Art Gallery; Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery; Bolton Museum
and Art Gallery; Arts Council Gallery, Belfast Blond Fine Art, London |
| 1983 | Blond Fine Art, London |
| 1982 | Blond Fine Art, London The National Gallery, London Compass Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1981 | St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds Blond Fine Art, London |
| 1980 | Bede Gallery, Jarrow |
| 1979 | Acme Gallery |
| 1978 | New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh Acme Gallery, London |
Group Exhibitions |
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| Many mixed exhibitions in Europe and the USA since 1978 including
The John Moores, Liverpool; Hayward Annual; The British Art Show; The New British Painting, USA; British Council Touring Shows; British Figuration, Florence; A13, Wapping Project, London |
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Awards/Commissions |
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| 1992 | Designed sets and costumes for Kenneth MacMillan’s The Judas Tree, Royal Opera House |
| 1991 | Prize winner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 17 |
| 1981 | Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London |
| 1979 | Arts Council Major Award |
| 1978 | Arts Council Award for film-making project |
Corporate Collections |
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| Many private and corporate collections, including Clifford Chance, Deutsche Bank, Fleming Collection and Prudential | |
Public Collections |
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| Amnesty International Arts Council of Great Britain Ashmolean Museum, Oxford BBC Bede Gallery, Jarrow Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery British Council British Museum City of Edinburgh Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough Contemporary Art Society Glasgow Art Galleries The Government Art Collection The Guildhall, London Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow The Imperial War Museum Kunsthalle, Hamburg Leicester Education Authority Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow Manchester City Art Gallery The Museum of London The National Gallery, London Scottish Arts Council Sheffield City Art Gallery Tate Gallery, London The Theatre Museum, London University of Dundee The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Walsall Museum and Art Gallery Whitworth Gallery, Manchester Wolverhampton City Art Gallery Worcester Art Gallery |
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Selected Bibliography |
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| 2001 | Beyond Turners Road publication to accompany solo exhibition
at Agnew’s, London, with story commissioned from Iain Sinclair Jock McFadyen, A Book About a Painter, monograph by David Cohen with contributions from other authors, published by Lund Humphries |
| 1999 | From Orkney and Other Places, publication to accompany solo exhibition for St Magnus Festival at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, prose commissioned from Will Self |
| 1998 | Looking Out To Sea, catalogue for solo Edinburgh Festival exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, with an essay by Duncan Macmillan |
| 1997 | Urbasuburba, catalogue for joint exhibition with Humphrey Ocean, Whitworth Gallery and tour, with foreword by Alistair Smith and story commissioned from Will Self |
| 1991 | Fragments from Berlin, catalogue for solo exhibition at
Imperial War Museum London, Kelvingrove Glasgow and Manchester City
Art Gallery, with foreword by Angela Weight and essay by Tom Lubbock Canal, catalogue for solo exhibition at William Jackson Gallery, London, with an introduction by Jeffery Camp and an essay by Howard Jacobson |
| 1990 | John Bellany, Peter Howson and Jock McFadyen, catalogue for three man show at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, with an essay by Mary Rose Beaumont |
| 1989 | Jock McFadyen, catalogue for solo exhibition at Forum, Hamburg, with an essay by Mary Rose Beaumont |
| 1986 | Jock McFadyen Paintings, catalogue for solo touring exhibition organised by the Northern Centre for contemporary Art, with an essay by Lewis Biggs, ‘Realism in Art, or a slap in the face with a wet Kipper’ |
| 1978 | Jock McFadyen, paintings drawings titles, catalogue for solo exhibition at New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, with introductions by artists Jim Latter and Simon Read |