Saturday, 7 March, 2009

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction Spring 2009

Sale Catalogue

Lot 253

Lot 253 Description

Gwen Hardie
02 Body 04.18.08
oil on canvas
30in x 36in (76.2cm x 91.4cm)
Usual gallery price £7000

Estimate: £2,000 - 4,000

Condition Report or Notes

Still the youngest artist of any nationality to have been awarded a solo exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. (1994).


Gwen Hardie is represented in many private and public art collections in Europe and America. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has shown with The Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Dinter Fine Art and has been awarded Residencies at Yaddo in 2004.2005 and 2006 and in 2006 a Bogliasco Fellowship at The Liguria Study Center in Italy. She lived in London between 1990 and 2000 and had 6 solo shows with galleries such as Annely Juda Fine Art, Beaux Arts and Fischer fine Art. In 1997 her painting was awarded a prize at the John Moores biennial, Liverpool and was included in "the New British Painting", which toured America in 1986. Hardie left her native Scotland in 1984 when she was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to study with Georg Baselitz in Berlin. A documentary was broadcast on Scottish television about her in Berlin in 1987. At Edinburgh College of art, she was awarded the Richard Ford Award to study the paintings of Velasquez at the Prado Museum and received a first class honours degree in 1983.

Awards

2006 Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
2006 Bogliasco Fellowship, for residence at the Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy
2005 Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs. New York
2004 Residency at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2003 Residency at The Ragdale Foundation,Lake Forest, Illinois
2003 Residency at Virginia Creative Center for the Arts,Virginia
2002 Residency at Virginia Creative Center for the Arts, Virginia
2000 Membership of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Center, New York
2000 Prizewinner of the 20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1997 'Annual Award', King Edward the 7th British German Foundation, Berlin
1986 'DAAD Extension'
1984  85 'DAAD Annual Art Scholarship', Berlin, West Germany ; to study with Baselitz
1983  84 'Richard Ford Award', Royal Academy, London, to study Velasquez, Prado Museum, Madrid


Education

1984  85 Hochshule Der Kunste, study with Baselitz.
1984 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (post graduate diploma with distinction)
1979 -83 Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland (first class honours degree)

Solo Shows

2005 Dinter Fine Art, New York (catalog)
2004 Alpan Gallery, Huntington
2001 Lindsey Brown, New York
1999 Beaux Arts, London (catalogue )
1996 Jason & Rhodes, London (catalogue)
1994 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1994 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1990 Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh (catalogue)
1988 Fischer Fine Art, London
1988 Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
1987 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (touring UK) (catalogue)
1986 Paton Gallery, London

Group Shows

2007 "The Dutch Barn Show", Rose Burlingham Fine Art, Lindsey Brown Studio, Clinton Corners, NY
2007 "Radius", Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2006 'Close', Dinter Fine Art, Chelsea, New York
2006 'Closer', Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York
2006 'Drawn', Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 'Brooklyn Artists', Alpan Gallery, Huntington
2004 'London Art Fair', Stephen Lacey Gallery'
2002 'Landscape', Lindsey Brown Gallery, New York
2001 'Narcissus', Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001 'Abstraction and Immanence', Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York
2000 'Five', Lennon,Weinberg, New York
2000 'Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center' Open Studios, New York
1998 'Tech', Jason & Rhodes, London and 'Galerie oef', Paris
1997 'The 20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, (prizewinner)
1993 'Prospect 93', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1988  1990 'The New British Painting', The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and touring America
1987 'The Vigorous Imagination', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1987 'The Self Portrait- A Modern View', Artsite, Bath
1986 'Identity-Desire', Scottish Arts Council touring show

Collections

British Council, London. Contemporary Art Society, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
City Art Collection, Edinburgh
Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York
Kasen Summer Collection, Connecticut
Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
Glaxo Group Research Ltd, London
Manchester Museum of Modern Art

Teaching Experience

2008 Master Class at The Essential School of Painting, Bethnal Green, London
2006 Master Class at The Essential School of Painting, Bethnal Green, London
2004 - Private Painting Instruction, Bridge St Studio Center, Brooklyn
2002 Visiting artist and tutor, MICA, Baltimore,Maryland.
2001 Visiting artist , New York Studio School, New York
1999 Tutor in Painting and Sculpture at Ottawa University, Canada
1999 Visiting artist and tutor, Cleveland University, U.S.
1998 Visiting artist and tutor, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1998 Visiting artist and tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
1997 Tutor in painting, First year of Degree Course, modular system, Guildhall University, London
1997 Visiting artist and tutor, Winchester School of Art, England
1996 Visiting artist and tutor, Royal College of Art, London
1995 Visiting artist and tutor , St Martins School of Art, London
1993  1996 Tutor in Visual Arts, First Year of Degree Course, modular system, Oxford Brookes University

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