About the Artist
Saul Robertson RSW
CV
1978 Born
Education
1996-2000 BA Honours (Drawing and Painting)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Awards
2023 Elected member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts
2022 Elected member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
2021 Winner of The Scottish Portrait Awards
2020 Prize winner, The Scottish Portrait Awards
2019 Prize winner, The Scottish Portrait Awards
2019 The City of Ingostadt Residency, Ingolstadt, Germany
2013 First Prize, The Maclaurin Open, The Maclaurin Art Gallery
2012 The Bet Low Trust Award
2012 The James Torrance Memorial Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
2011 The Armour Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
2011 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
2011 AB Prize, The Paisley Art Institute
2010 James BS Curr Memorial Prize, The Paisley Art Institute
2007 Shortlisted for the Insight Investment Newcomers Prize, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2006 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
2005 The City of Glasgow Prize, Royal Glasgow
Institute
2005 Prize winner, The BP portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2004 The David Cargill Senior Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
2003 The David Cargill Award, Royal Glasgow
Institute
2001 Young Artist of the Year, The Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art, London
2000 The Ninewells MRI Imaging Purchase Prize
2000 Nominated for the Scottish International Education Trust Award
Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Forthcoming) The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 “Journeys”, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2022 “Showcase”, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 “Here – Small Paintings and Drawings”, Partickhill Bowling and Community Club
2018 “The other River”, City of Glasgow College Art Foundation, Glasgow
2015 "Living in Time", Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2015 "Pathways and Houses", Rozelle House, The Maclaurin Art Gallery
2014 "From Here to Here", The Lamb Gallery, The University of Dundee
2010 "Eyots - Some Paintings and Drawings from the Last Ten Years", The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
2009 "What we Found on the River Bed", The Temple Gallery, Aberfeldy
2008 "Soliloquy", Thompson's Gallery, London
2006 "Paintings from a Small Room", Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
2005 "Day and Night", Thompson's Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 (Forthcoming) Summer Exhibition, Fidra Fine Art, Gullane
2023 RSW Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
2021 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, (touring to Glasgow Art Club and Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries)
2021 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2020 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh (touring to Glasgow Art Club and Duff House)
2019 Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
2019 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh (touring to Glasgow Art Club and Kirkcudbright Galleries)
2019 Back to the drawing board, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
2018 The Lillie Art Gallery
2018 The North Sea, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2018 40 Years of Wasps, Kirkcudbright Galleries
2012-Present Stafford Gallery, London
2004-Present Roger Billcliffe Fine Art Glasgow
2017 Citizen Spire, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2016 The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Byard Art, Cambridge
2016 Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow
2015 Leiper Fine Art Glasgow
2014 Festival Exhibition-Works on paper, Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 50 at the Lillie-Paintings from the Permanent Collection, The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
2010 Portal Painters, London
2010-2017 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
2009-2022 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2008/2009 Red Rag Gallery, Gloucestershire
2008 Oakham Contemporary, London
2008 Catmose Gallery, Vale of Catmose College, Rutland, Leicestershire
2007/2009/2013/2020 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2007 Two Person Exhibition, CFAG, Eton
2006 Divided Selves-The Scottish Self Portrait from the 17th Century to the Present, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (Touring to the Fleming Collection, London)
2005/2006 The BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London (Touring to Sunderland Museum and Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
2004 Three Person Exhibition, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Three Person Exhibition, Thompson's Gallery, London
2002 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2001/2002 The Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art, London
2001 Fresh Paint 2, Maclean Fine Art, London
2001 In House, Mall Galleries, London
2000-2011 Eighth Scottish Drawing Competition,
Paisley Art Gallery, Paisley
2000 New Generation, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2000 Royal Scottish Academy Students Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Collections
Art Review Magazine
City of Glasgow College
Citizen Spire Project
University of Dundee Museum Collections
Glasgow Museums
Lillie Art Gallery
Tayside NHS
Walter Scott Investment, Edinburgh
Professional Experience
2012 Visiting lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art
Bibliography and Paintings Reproduced in Publications
- Publications
"500 Portraits"
The National Portrait Gallery,
320 pages
ISBN:978-1-85514-448-4
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership -
Glasgow Museums,
The Public Catalogue Foundation,
527 pages
ISBN:978-1-904931-81-2
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership -
Strathclyde,
The Public Catalogue Foundation,
343 pages
ISBN:978-1-909475-26-7
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership -
Dundee,
The Public Catalogue Foundation,
336 pages
ISBN:978-1-909987-86-4
"Who's Who in Art"
35th/36th Edition
Lynda Murray
Morven Press
ISBN:978-0-9536039-16
"The Dictionary Of Scottish Painters 1600
To The Present", Julian Halsby and Paul
Harris, Birlinn, 244 pages,
ISBN:978-1-84158-882-7
"Divided Selves: The Scottish Self Portrait",
Bill Hare and Polly Bielecka, The Fleming-
Wyfold Art Foundation, 128 pages,
ISBN: 0-9545137-3-8, 2006
Television
"Summer Exhibition", BBC Two, 22/23 June 2007