Blair Thomson

STUDY:

• Hamilton College 1990-98 - Final year: CSYS Art Practical and CSYS Art Written
• Glasgow School of Art Painting Department 1998-2002, BA (Hons) Fine Art

EXHIBITIONS:

2001

• April - Exhibited at Glasgow Art Fair
• June - Solo Exhibition at 'Gallery Cossachok', King Street, Glasgow.
• October - 'Camp Transformation '; Landscape project in Cairngorms and exhibition in Studio 48 Mackintosh Building, Glasgow School Art
• October-November - Royal Glasgow Institute Exhibition, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow. Work collected by Stenton Gallery, Edinburgh. Awarded scholarship and RGI Exhibitionship

2002

• February - Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition
• March - Shortlisted for Caledonian University Commission
• Easter - 'Imaging the Landscape ' Exhibition in the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• April - Glasgow Art Fair, representing the GSA
• June - Glasgow School of Art 'Degree Show' Exhibition, Main Gallery/Museum Space, Mackintosh Building
• July to September - 'TerraNova' Degree Show Selection. Main Gallery/Museum space, Mackintosh
• July - Compass 'Next Generation' Show
• August to September - In association with above exhibition, showing large work in the Pentagon Centre, Glasgow
• October - Solo exhibition in the Kelly Gallery, Glasgow. (RGI Exhibitionship)

2003

• September, Stenton Gallery

PRIZES:

• June 2001 _ 3rd Year Prize, GSA
• November 2001 - RGI Scholarship and Exhibition

EXPERIENCE:

• January 2000 - Travels to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore
• June 2000 - Landscape Workshop, Abernethy (Cairngorms)
• June 2001 - Landscape Workshop, Abernethy
• October 2001 - Hanging SSA Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh
• January 2002 (Completion date) - Dissertation, 'Haiku-Mindedness' a 15,000 word investigation of contemporary visual art and poetry in relation to haiku.

• August to September 2002 - Travels to Japan
• October 2002 - Residency at Cove Park, West coast of Scotland