Rowan Paton
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Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now
Royal Scottish Academy 
National Gallery Complex

The Mound/Princes Street, Edinburgh. Mon-Sat 10-5pm - 3rd August to 8th September 2024. Free
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“This August, we’re delighted to present Frontiers, a major exhibition considering the place of painting in contemporary Scottish art.
Co-curated by @robbiebushe RSA and Flora La Thangue, Frontiers will highlight the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of the medium of painting and reveal it to be a vital connection between the traditions of the past and ambitions for the future of the visual arts in Scotland.

The exhibition will explore why, in a world saturated with digital imagery, painting continues to flourish. Works by Royal Scottish Academicians will be placed alongside other established practitioners and emerging artists, posing the question: what place remains for painting? Are there new frontiers for painting in Scotland?”

Exhibitors:
Philip Braham RSA | John Brown | Robbie Bushe RSA | Michael Clarence | Francis Convery RSA | Andrew Cranston RSA (Elect) | Catherine Davison | Laura Drever | Jack Dunnett | Joe Fan RSA | Moyna Flannigan | Helen Flockhart RSA | Audrey Grant | Derrick Guild RSA | Kevin Harman | Joanna Holisz | Olivia Irvine | Paul Keir | Lizzie Lilley | Lynsey Mackenzie | Lily Macrae | Barry Mcglashan | Sin Park | Toby Paterson RSA (Elect) | Rowan Paton | Sharon Quigley | Finn Robinson | Catherine Ross | Elaine Speirs | Alasdair Wallace | Kirsty Whiten

WANDERINGS
9th-23rd September 2023, sat-sun 11-4pm, mon-fri 10-4pm
Patriothall, Edinburgh


Utterly delighted to be showing with two of my favourite contemporary painters: Lynsey MacKenzie and Julie-Ann Steele:

Wanderings opens 8th September, Patriothall, Wasps, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 6-8pm.
Please come along to the PV to celebrate with us. If you can respond to the Eventbrite (https://tinyurl.com/3ckzxksy) that'll help us gauge numbers, but otherwise just turn up on the night! Open every day between 9th-23rd September 2023, sat-sun 11-4pm, mon-fri 10-4pm. 

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Edition at Edinburgh Printmakers
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Lovely piece Edinburgh Printmakers website on my edition launch. Photo by Jordan Mcquaid with thanks to James Harrison - framing by Detail Framing, Edinburgh. For purchase details go to shop on website

Surge - Tatha Gallery - https://www.tathagallery.com/exhibitions/surge.                                                                                                                  As the tide turns on the past year and we start to move into new rhythms we are delighted to be showing selected Visual Arts Scotland members' work at the Tatha Gallery.
Featuring an array of art forms across the wide spectrum of disciplines that VAS champions, against the silvery Tay, this exhibition takes on a collective momentum in simpatico with the tidal swells of the local landscape and the general wave of growing optimism
Please join us in celebrating the breadth and depth of selected works from our community of artists, designers and makers.
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Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2021

Delighted to be part of this show: https://www.rsaannualexhibition.org/artists/1059-rowan-paton/works/
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VAS with SFMA
ADJUST/ADAPT
Till April 24th 2021

https://www.scottishfurnituremakers.org.uk/exhibitions/adjust-adapt/
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SSA | VAS OPEN
Royal Scottish Academy
22 December 2019 – 30 January 2020
Entry £3 | Concession £2 | Catalogue £2

I am delighted to have received the W Gordon Smith and Mrs J Gordon Smith Award for a work of Merit, selected By the trustees of the W Gordon Smith Award.

​I am also thrilled to have
 received the Open Eye Gallery Award. 
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RSA ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2019
Exhibition Dates:
2 November 2019 - 11 December 2019
Opening Times:
Monday to Saturday 10-5pm, Sunday 12-5pm RSA Upper & Lower Galleries

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2019
Duncan MacMillan Review in Scotsman

“Paton’s paintings are really rather beautiful. Against a white ground, small pools of transparent paint are set off by lines and stripes and dots of brighter, more opaque colour. Fragments of mountains drift in to suggest the fragility of landscape and from one mountain top a word balloon cries “Help!”
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Double page feature in The Herald, featuring information on my exhibition with Workspace Dunfermline’s, Alan Grieve, LOST ALL REASON AND DIRECTION, Tent Gallery, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, corner of Grassmarket & Lady Lawson Street. Open daily 10-4pm till 26th January 2019. http://rss.precise-media.co.uk/email/130979/454090234.pdf
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Lost All Reason And Direction - myself and Alan Grieve of Workspace Dunfermline will be sharing a show at the Tent Gallery, ECA, Edinburgh. Opens Friday 18th January, till 26th january. 10am till 4pm. 2019. Free.
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My work, (featured on poster here!) SOS, will feature as part of SSA Annual Exhibition 2018/19 till 17th January 2019, NGS on The Mound, Edinburgh £2
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2018
CURRENT Featuring the work of Visual Arts Scotland members at the Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay. Opens August 25th. Up till 28th September.
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fantastic closing workshop for r e • p l a y at the Suttie Space, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust.
Great results from wonderful participants.
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Very pleased that Tower Block Grew a Mountain collected a prize at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual show this year...
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I am totally delighted to have been selected as a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists and, also this year, selected for professional membership of Visual Arts Scotland.

Two works to feature in the 2018 Royal Scottish Academy Annual exhibition, till end of July.
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r e • p l a y The Suttie Space GHAT, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, 28th April - 24th June 2028
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Alumni interview with ECA:
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Interesting review from Artlyst with a lovely mention for my work ‘Wilderness’ for SSA VAS Open 2018

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Wilderness - site specific wall drawing installed for SSA VAS Open 2018, RSA, National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh - till March 2018. Free of charge
2017

Upcoming: SSA & VAS Together 2018
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upcoming: Detail, Tollcross, November-December 2017

Upcoming: VAU annual show, November 2017, Crownpoint Studios, Glasgow
Delighted to have two paintings feature in this years RSA Summer Show, 22nd July - 1st October 2017, The Mound, Edinburgh
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Thrilled to be asked to participate in Place + Platform's 2017 Edinburgh Art Festival outing, Reject, Reuse, Repurpose, from August 19th-26th, Settlement Projects, Leith Walk edinburghartfestival.com/whats-on/detail/placeplatform-reject-respond-repurpose

Currently participating in the Rock Trust Postacrd Auction 2017 - a wonderful cause helping to support homeless Teens - affordable post card sized art avaible here: www.rocktrust.org/postcard-art-exhibition/

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