Rowan Paton
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Rowan Paton is an award-winning painter, living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.


Statement

Paint provides an immediacy of mark that no other material imparts. It is instant, decisive, luxurious, bold, yet nuanced. The satisfying repetitive drag on linen, applied, reduced, re-applied, washed away, applied again, holds a unique appeal for me.

If the interplay between materiality and narrative is found lacking or absent, it can be frustrating, depressing even. When they interlock, however, it is the reason I continue to make images. Providing purpose and stability, it is still the most surprising, challenging and soothing process - painted contexts to be absorbed by and disappear into.


Education

Yale University School of Art, MFA Painting & Printmaking, CT, USA

University of Edinburgh, Post Graduate Diploma Education, Edinburgh, Scotland


Edinburgh College of Art, BA Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh, Scotland


Exhibitions

2025 (upcoming) Velarde Gallery, Summer Exhibition

2025 The Scottish Gallery, Still Life | The Beauty of the Ordinary, 3rd April - 5th May 2025

2024 Royal Scottish Academy, Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now
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2024 Royal Scottish Academy 194th Annual Exhibition of Art and Architecture

2023 Wanderings, Patriothall Edinburgh

2022 SSA Annual Exhibition

2021 Totally Overwhelmed, Irving Gallery, Oxford

2020 SURGE, Tatha Gallery and Visual Arts Scotland, Newport-on-Tay

2021 Adjust / Adapt, Visual Arts Scotland/SFMA, Leith Theatre & online

2020 Resonant Strangeness - Marram Arts

2020 F L O W - Visual Arts Scotland

2020 SSA | VAS OPEN Royal Scottish Academy, National Galleries of Scotland

2019 Royal Scottish Academy 193rd Annual Exhibition of Art & Architecture

2019 Bloc Gallery

2019 Settle Doon, Place + Platform

2019 Gone Fishing, DOK, Edinburgh

2019 Visual Arts Scotland ALIGHT 2019

2019 Lost All Reason & Direction
with Alan Grieve, Tent Gallery, ECA, Edinburgh

2019 SSA Annual Show, RSA, National Galleries

2018 Tatha Gallery, Current

2018 Detail

2018 Royal Scottish Academy Annual

2018 The Suttie Space, GHAT - Replay

2018 SSA & VAS Together 2018

2017 Detail, It's All In The Detail, Edinburgh

2017 Visual Artist Unit Annual, Glasgow

2017 RSA Summer Show

2017 Edinburgh Art Festival, as part of Place + Platform's Reject/Respond/Repurpose

2017 Rock Trust Postcard Exhibition

2017 Before We Were Even Dreamed, with Andrew Phillips

2017 DOK Artists Space, Death or Glory, as part of city wide Audacious Women Festival, Edinburgh

2016 DOK Artists Space, Works on Paper, Edinburgh

2016 RGI, 153rd Royal Glasgow Institute Show, Glasgow

2016 SSA, Society of Scottish Artists Annual, National Galleries of Scotland

2016 VOXEL Gallery, featured artist, August-September

2016 RSA Annual, National Galleries of Scotland

2016 SWA Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2016 Cupar Arts Festival, LIMINAL, Fife

2016 Newave Gallery, Aberdeen

2015 Royal Scottish Academy Annual, National Gallery's of Scotland, Edinburgh


Teaching

Edinburgh City Council / ECC Community classes: Drawing techniques, mixed media Sculpture​

Yale University, assistant Drawing tutor

The Drawing Room, NGS


Awards/Publications

Edinburgh Printmakers Edition Award, RSA Annual 2022

The Royal Drawing School, Dumfries House Residency 2021

W Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordon Smith Award 2020

Open Eye Gallery Award 2020

RSA Annual Edinburgh College of Art Libraries Prize 2018

Imagio Mundi - Benetton Collection 'Scotland' 2018

Society of Scottish Artists, 2017 Greyfriar's Prize

Ellen Battel Stoeckel scholarship for Yale Summer School of Art & Music
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Grampian Hospitals Trust Wood Group Student Prize


Collections

Marchmont House

Dumfries House

The Bank of Montreal

Grampian Hospitals Art Trust

Edinburgh College of Art

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