Jean Gillespie

Sealoft Studios, Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland  KY3 9ST

jeanbirdchina05@yahoo.co.uk

PROFILE

Mobile No : 07931 208 208

Website : http://www.jeangillespie.com

EDUCATION

Goldsmiths College; Introduction to Field Recording and Soundscape 2020

Goldsmith College; Poetry Form and Feeling 2020

Book Love; Making simple artist’s books 2020

Edinburgh University COL Studies Dynamics of Landscape

Edinburgh University; PGDE Teaching Art & Design – 2008/9

Wimbledon School of Art, London; Postgraduate Diploma in Drawing – 2001/03

Edinburgh College of Art; BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting – 1997/2001

BSc Information Technology; Open University – 1989/96

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 – Art Spot Korin; Kyoto, Japan; solo exhibition,

2022 – Solace; group exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers

2022 – Macmillan Art Show; invited artist

2021- Art and it’s Afterlives (workshop 3) Extraordinary Plumbago; online

2021 – Art and it’s Afterlives (workshop 2); Fugitive Materials; online

2020/1 – Art and it’s Afterlives, online exhibition with Bournemouth University

2020 – 44AD Gallery Bath, Set in Stone, Group Exhibition (on-line)

2020 – ArtCan; Elevate @ The Shard, London

2019 – Dundas St Gallery; Painting, Drawing & Printmaking; Two Artists

2019 – ArtCan; Encounters @ D-Contemporary Gallery, London

2016 – Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh; W Gordon Smith Painting Competition

2016 – RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Edinburgh

2016 – An Talla Solais, Ullapool; (showcase within a group exhibition)

2016 – WITP (What Is The Point – artist member) Strand Gallery, London

2016 – Pentland Fine Art, Aberdeen

2016 – The Other Art Fair, Bristol

2015 – RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Edinburgh

2015 – Edinburgh Drawing School

2015 – Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh

2015 – Tea Green @ The Lighthouse, Glasgow

2015 – Naked Eye @ St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh; Life Drawing & Painting

2015 – Edinburgh Printmakers;

2015 – 3-Harbours Festival

2015 – Edinburgh College of Art; Spring Exhibition

2014 – Kinburn Gallery, Fife; Print exhibition

2014 – WASPS Open Studios

2014 – Twenty Eighty @ Summerhall Edinburgh; Juniper Festival

2014 – Gallery on the Corner, Dundas St, Edinburgh

2012 – Parallax Art Fair; Chelsea Town Hall, London

2002 – Art Space Portsmouth

2002 – Winchester Gallery

2001 – Edinburgh College of Art (graduate selected exhibition)

COLLECTIONS

My work is in collections in Vienna and Norway as well as around Scotland and England.

RESIDENCIES

June 2017 – Shetland Amenity Trust, Bressay Lighthouse, Shetland

Jan 2013 – WASPS @ The Booth, Shetland

AWARDS

2021 – Creative Scotland Funding Grant to increase skills and make work

2020 – Hope Scott Trust Funding to make work and hold an exhibition

2020 – Creative Scotland Funding Grant to increase skills and make work

2002 – Scholarship; awarded a studio for a year with Art Space Portsmouth

PUBLICATIONS

2021 – Lallans the Scots Language Society issue 99

2020/21 – Lucent Dreaming; issues 9 and 10

2020 – Fly on the Wall Press; issue 8

2020 – Bold Types poetry competition (online publication)

2014 – “The State of Art: Landscape and Portrait” Vol 1

2013 – “The State of Art: Representational and Abstract” Vol 1