Rowan Paton
Considerations of materiality, mark making, colour and language characterise my work. Employing two and three dimensional practices, low tech media, appropriated and self made imagery, I create imagined spaces.
My work affords me a route to unpick timeless, persistent human challenges such as oppressive feelings of isolation, and seemingly immovable emotional obstacles. Landscape, and in particular, the mountain, provide a reference through which to explore these.
Education
Yale Univeristy School of Art, MFA Painting & Printmaking, CT, USA
Edinburgh College of Art, BA Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh, Scotland
Exhibitions
2019 Lost All Reason & Direction
with Alan Grieve, Tent Gallery, ECA, Edinburgh
2018 SSA Annual Show, RSA, National Galleries
2018 CURRENT Tatha Gallery
2018 Detail Framing
2018 Royal Scottish Academy Annual
2018 r e • p l a y The Suttie Space, GHAT
2018 Blue Roof Gallery, Aberdeenshire
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, Summerhall, Edinburgh,
2017 Before We Were Even Dreamed, Whitespace, with Andrew Phillips, Edinburgh
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
Yale University, assistant Drawing tutor
Edinburgh City Council Community classes: Drawing techniques, mixed media Sculpture
The Drawing Room, Scottish National Galleries
Edinburgh City Council, Teacher of Art
Affiliations
Society of Scottish Artists - Professional Member
Visual Arts Scotland - Professional Member
Awards/Publications
RSA Annual Edinburgh College of Art Libraries Prize 2018
Imagio Mundi - Benetton Collection 'Scotland' 2018
Society of Scottish Artists, 2017 Greyfriars Prize
Ellen Battel Stoeckel scholarship for Yale Summer School of Art & Music
Grampian Hospitals Trust Wood Group Student Prize
Collections
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
Edinburgh College of Art
Considerations of materiality, mark making, colour and language characterise my work. Employing two and three dimensional practices, low tech media, appropriated and self made imagery, I create imagined spaces.
My work affords me a route to unpick timeless, persistent human challenges such as oppressive feelings of isolation, and seemingly immovable emotional obstacles. Landscape, and in particular, the mountain, provide a reference through which to explore these.
Education
Yale Univeristy School of Art, MFA Painting & Printmaking, CT, USA
Edinburgh College of Art, BA Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh, Scotland
Exhibitions
2019 Lost All Reason & Direction
with Alan Grieve, Tent Gallery, ECA, Edinburgh
2018 SSA Annual Show, RSA, National Galleries
2018 CURRENT Tatha Gallery
2018 Detail Framing
2018 Royal Scottish Academy Annual
2018 r e • p l a y The Suttie Space, GHAT
2018 Blue Roof Gallery, Aberdeenshire
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, Summerhall, Edinburgh,
2017 Before We Were Even Dreamed, Whitespace, with Andrew Phillips, Edinburgh
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
Yale University, assistant Drawing tutor
Edinburgh City Council Community classes: Drawing techniques, mixed media Sculpture
The Drawing Room, Scottish National Galleries
Edinburgh City Council, Teacher of Art
Affiliations
Society of Scottish Artists - Professional Member
Visual Arts Scotland - Professional Member
Awards/Publications
RSA Annual Edinburgh College of Art Libraries Prize 2018
Imagio Mundi - Benetton Collection 'Scotland' 2018
Society of Scottish Artists, 2017 Greyfriars Prize
Ellen Battel Stoeckel scholarship for Yale Summer School of Art & Music
Grampian Hospitals Trust Wood Group Student Prize
Collections
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
Edinburgh College of Art
