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Selected one man shows

 

1991 Perth Theatre Gallery
1991 Ancrum Gallery, Jedburgh
1992 Netherbow Arts Centre, Edinburgh
1994 East Kilbride Arts Centre
1994 David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre (Artist in residence) 
1994 Clydesdale Arts Festival (Artist in residence 1994/7) 
1996 Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther
1999 Ether Gallery, Southsea
2000 Timespan Gallery, Helmsdale
2000 Maltings Gallery, Farnham
2001 An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis
2002 Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2002 An Tuireann, Isle of Skye
2002 McLean Museum, Greenock
2003 An Tobar, Isle of Mull
2006 Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2006 August Gallery, Brenchley, Kent
2007 Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther
2010 Bedales Gallery, Hampshire
2010 Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
2010 Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham, Hampshire

July 2004: Artist in Residence, An Tobar, Isle of Mull; producing seven sketchbooks based on his experiences of the island and its history.

Touring exhibition during 1993/4 on the theme of the River Tay, featured two artists Angus McEwan and Douglas Robertson, and two poets, Valerie Gillies and Harvey Holton.

The River Spirits show travelled to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery; Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries; McLean Museum, Greenock; Netherbow Arts Centre, Edinburgh; Barrack Street Museum, Dundee; and the Balbardie Gallery, Bathgate.

 

 

Current Projects


Currently working on a  collaboration with Donald S. Murray, 'The Guga Stone', which will appear as a book and an exhibition, around 2012 – 13

Collaboration project, with poet Isobel Dixon, creating a series of poems and assemblages based on a response to D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Birds, Beasts and Flowers’.

Film collaboration with artist Alastair Cook and poet Andrew Philip, based on Philip’s MacAdam series of poems.

Creating a series of assemblages 'Pocket Museums' which will be part of the ARTournament arts festival in Gloucester, 16th - 19th August 2012

Producing further collaboration pieces for poets Christine De Luca, Andrew Philip, Norman Bissell, David Cooke, and Robert Alan Jamieson, and Brian Holton which will be published and exhibited 2012 - 13

 



Work in public collections


Inverclyde District Council, East Kilbride District Council, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Clydesdale District Council, Biggar Museums Trust, Calderglen Country Park, Borders Television, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Scottish Poetry Library, Timespan Heritage Centre, Shetland Arts Trust, Dundee University, Glasgow Museums, Ness Historical Society.


Catalogues, Publications, and other media

 

The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945 - David Buckman (Ed.) - Art Dictionaries Ltd.
Cover image for Entanglements, for Two Ravens Press 2012
Cover image for 'In The Distance' by David Cooke, for Night Publishing 2011
Cover images for ‘Small Expectations’ by Donald S. Murray, for Two Ravens Press 2010 
Cover image for Söylesi Üç Aylik Siir Dergisi, Turkey. (International poetry journal) September 2009. 
Cover illustration for ‘Praising The Guga’ by Donald S. Murray 2008
EarthLines magazine, illustrations featured in issues May and August 2012
Pushing Out The Boat – Anthology, Aberdeen May 2012
Six illustrations for Turkish translation of poems by Kenneth White 2012
Douglas Robertson - Timespan Heritage Centre, 2000
Lines Review 118 - Macdonald Publishers, Edinburgh 1991
Lines Review 124 - Macdonald Publishers, Edinburgh 1993
Mistaken Identities: New Scottish poetry and short stories - B&W, Edinburgh, 1995
Edinburgh Review - Polygon, Edinburgh, 1995



Radio and Television

'River Spirits' - Documentary series made for the BBC World Service, and broadcast worldwide, 1994 
'Usual Suspects' - Arts Review broadcast by BBC Radio Scotland, 1994. Featured an interview with Douglas Robertson 
'Poem Boats' - TV magazine feature about Douglas Robertson and Kevin MacNeill, and broadcast on BBC Scotland’s 'Eorpa', the Gaelic arts programme on Burn's Night 2001