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Exhibitions:

Upcoming:-

2025 - Shortlisted for The Scottish Landscape Awards - Kircudbright Galleries July 5th - 28th September 2025

Solo/Joint Shows:
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2024-Detail Framing Gallery joint exhibition in October with Lindsay Hamilton (Detail Gallery Prize for work shown with SSA at the McLauren Galleries)
2018 - 'WishWorlds: Real, Imagined and Remembered' Leith School of Art, Edinburgh.
2011 - 'Immanence Boiling’ Leith School of Art, Edinburgh.
2007 - ‘Space’ Solo exhibition, hosted by Caroline Bond, Edinburgh

Selected Group Exhibitions:
​2024 - VAS 'Now & Then' Centenary Show (Part 2) Dalkeith Palace
2024 - Selected Salon - Detail Framing and Gallery
2024 – no:where:now:here LSA Exhibition with Paul Mowat and Ginny Elston
2024 - Selected for John Muir Trust, 'Creative Freedom' exhibition
2024 - VAS 'Then and Now: 100 Years of Visual Arts Scotland' - RSA
2023 - SSA 125th Annual Exhibition - The MacLauren Art Gallery (Recipient of Detail Gallery Award)
2023 – RSW 142nd Annual – RSA
2022 – SSA 130 Years Annual – RSA
2021 – VAS ‘Flow’ Online – RSA
2020 – PAI 132nd Annual ‘Online’
2020 - SSA ‘Small Works’ - RSA
​2019 - VAS 'Alight' RSA
2016 - Staff Exhibition Leith School of Art
2012 - 'Unoccupied’ Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 - ‘Hidden Door’- The Roxy, Edinburgh
2010 - Festival exhibition at the WOT, Assemble, Edinburgh
2010, - 'Brink', Henderson's gallery, Edinburgh
2010 - Members group show, Embassy gallery, Edinburgh
2009 – 'LSA 20th Anniversary exhibition', Invited artist, Leith School of Art
2008 - ‘Second Nature’. Hosted by Richard Demarco, Skateraw, Dunbar
2008 - ‘Filmstrips’, group show, The Filmhouse, Edinburgh
2008 - ‘Carnival of Souls’, Collaborative exhibition, Wasps Artists Studios, Glasgow
2007 - ‘FlatRate’ Collaborative exhibition, Edinburgh,
2006 - ‘RGI Christmas Postcard Exhibition’, Invited artist, RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
2006 - 145th Open Annual Exhibition, ‘The Heart of Art’, panel selection, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
2006 - ‘118th Annual Exhibition’, Paisley Art Institute
2006 - ‘10th Open Art Exhibition’ North Ayrshire

Prizes and Awards:
2023 Detail Gallery Award
2010 The Katherine Michaelson Prize, Edinburgh College of Art - for final year dissertation
2010 Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship - Edinburgh College of Art
​2009 Andrew Grant Travel Scholarship – Edinburgh College of Art (Helsinki)
2007 Andrew Grant Travel Grant - Edinburgh College of Art (London)
2007 Andrew Grant Bequest Award for Painting - Edinburgh College of Art

Publications:

2022 – Andrew Mackenzie – ‘Dusk’ &Gallery – Catalogue Essay
2014 - An Aesthetics of Expanded Awareness: Art Making, and Experiencing, within an Ettingerian Framework – presented at the Psyart conference in Porto 2013 and selected for publication in June 2014 in Analyses of Cultural Productions: Papers of 30th Conference of Psyart Porto, 2013 edited by Bastos Jose Gabriel Pereira, Cayolla Ribeiro Diniz, Fox Elizabeth, i2ADS, Porto 2014 (p 239).
2011 - Practice Disrupting Theory: Art Rethinking the Subject – Presented at The Amsterdam School of Cultural Studies Workshop - Practicing Theory: Imagining, Resisting, Remembering in 2011 – selected for publication in the 2011 ASCA Practicing Theory Reader
2011 - Aesthetica. Creative Works Annual
2009 - Leith school of Art 20th Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue
2008 - ‘eca-ksu’, Edinburgh/Kyoto exchange visit exhibition catalogue

Education (Art Related)
2019 - ​MPhil (Art) Edinburgh College of Art
2010 - BA Fine Art (Hons), First Class, Edinburgh College of Art
2006 - Foundation Course, Distinction, Leith School of Art

Employment: (Art Related)
2014 - 2024 Seminar Tutor/Lecturer BA Fine Art (Studio and Theory) University of Edinburgh: Edinburgh College of Art
2007 - Present Leith School of Art:
​Art Tutor: Drawing and Painting
Course Leader for Year Long One Day (Friday) Painting Course
Curriculum Development Lead


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