Personal:

• Education
• Scholarships
• Employment
• Selected Group Exhibitions
• Solo Exhibitions
• Curated Exhibitions
• Curations
• Prizes & Awards
• Residencies
• Publications/Catalogues/Articles
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• Alan Robb Home

1946
1969

Born Glasgow 24 February
Married Cynthia Jane, 2 children

Education:

1958-1964
1964-1968
1968-1969
1969-1972

Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen
DA Grays School of Art,
Post-Diploma Drawing & Painting (Highly Commended)
MA RCA Royal College of Art

Scholarships

1968
1968-1972

Aberdeen Endowments Trust
Robert Nicol Trust Award for post-graduate study

Employment

1972-1975
1975-1982
1975-1978
1978-1980
1980-1982
1983-date

1990

Art Master, Oundle School, Peterborough
Crawford School of Art, Cork, Ireland:
Lecturer in Painting
Head of Painting & Two-Dimensional Studies
Head of Fine Art
Head of School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Appointed Professor of Fine Art

Selected Group Exhibitions

1967 & 68
1970
1971


1972

1972
1977-1981
1978 & 80
1980 & 82
1996

1996

1997
1999


2000

The Scottish Young Contemporaries, Edinburgh
York University
The Architectural Association, London
Royal College of Art, London
Napier Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Eduardo Paolozzi's Choice of the London Post-graduate shows, Greenwich
The Royal Academy
EVA (Annual Exhibition of Visual Art), Limerick
Cork Art Society (invited artist)
Claremorris Open
Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York including Richard Estes and Wayne Thiebaud
Gallery Artists, Bruton Street Gallery, London including Bill Crozier
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
I Live Now, with Ian Howard, and Derick Guild Academie Galerie, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, Visual Research Centre, DCA
Expressions, Dundee City Art Galleries/DCA

Solo Exhibitions

1972
1973
1973
1976
1979
1986
1991

1996-97

1997
1999

The New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, Peterborough
East Midland Arts, Northampton
Cork Art Society
Triskel Art Centre, Cork
Gallery 22, Cupar, Fife
The Francis Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Professorial Inaugural Exhibition
In the Mind's Eye, The Seagate Gallery, Dundee;
Artspace, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
True Knowledge, East-West Gallery, London
Illusion, Invention and Reality, East-West Gallery, London

Curated Exhibitions

1978-79
1978
1978
1978
1979
1985



1991



1994

1996

1997

Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition with Ronald Forbes:
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Peacock Printmakers Touring Exhibition - "The Art of Thinking", an exhibition designed to demonstrate the thinking behind the creative process Joyce Cairns, Doug Cocker, Sandy Fraser, Jack Knox, Liz Ogilvy
Allegories of Desire, The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London W.3. May/June Beverley Brennan, Vivian Leda-Head, Andrzej Jackowski, David Kori, Arturo di Stefano, Estelle Thompson, Roger Woods
5 Scottish Artists, Centre d'art en l'Ile, Geneva, with Elaine Shemilt, Martin Rayner, Grant Clifford and Dennis Buchan
Four Scottish Artists, Gallery Louise Smith, Toronto, Grant Clifford, Calum Colvin, Elaine Shemilt
Bruton Street Gallery, London with Ann de Bruyne, Alexandra Haynes,
Paul Lightfoot and Ying Yang

Curations

1993



1998

Decade Show. Supported by Scottish Arts Council and DJCA. Exhibition of 150 graduates in venues throughout Dundee. £12000 raised in funding. Two commissions supported by the SAC – Alastair MacLennan and David Mach
I Live Now, with Ian Howard, Derrick Guild, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, and Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts

Prizes and Awards

1968
1977

1982
1989
2000
2000

1st Prize Painting, Arbroath Open
2nd Prize Painting, Irish Open Exhibition, of Visual Art, Limerick
1st Prize Painting, Clare Morris Open
Commendation, Aberdeen Artists
Scottish Arts Club Award, RSA
William J. MacAulay Prize – Scottish Gallery Award, RSA

Residencies

1968
1999

Hospitalfield Scholarship
British School in Rome – 4 week residency October. Supported by Whitehall Trust.

Publications/Catalogues/Articles

1978
1982

1982

1983
1985

1986
1996

1997
1997
1999
1999

2000

Catalogue Arts Council Touring Show
Irish Contemporary Art, Roderick Knowles, Wolfhound Press, Dublin
Clare Morris Open Catalogue, Peter Jones, Welsh Arts Council
EVA Catalogue - New Work of Past Winners
Art of Thinking, Stuart MacDonald, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
ALBA, Tom Normand
In the Mind's Eye, Seagate Gallery, Euan McArthur. Funded by Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
True Knowledge, East-West Gallery, London
Discerning Eye, Independent review
Illusion, Invention & Reality, East-West Gallery, London
I Live Now, essay by Euan McArthur, Akademie Gallery, Utrecht
Art Monthly Australia. An interview by Peter Hill

Works in Collections
• Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
• City of Dundee Museums & Art Galleries
• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
• Arts Council of Ireland
• Arts Council of Northern Ireland
• Arts in Fife
• Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
• Hunterian, Glasgow University
• Royal College of Art, London
• Annie Hughhill Trust, The Royal Academy, London
• HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
• Montgomery Securities, New York
• Robert Fleming Foundation
• Also in private collections in the UK, Australia, Brazil, France,
Germany and US
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