About the Artist

William Cadenhead

Personal Data

1934         Born Aberdeen
1955         Diploma in Drawing & Painting, Dundee College of Art
1955         Hospitalfield Art College, Summer
1956         Post-Diploma Scholarship, Dundee
1956         Travelled Florence, Rome, Paris & Holland
1957-61      Royal Academy Schools, London
1957         David Murray Landscape Scholarship
1957         Bronze Medal for Painting, Royal Academy Schools
1960         Certificate of the Royal Academy Schools
1961-71   Part-time Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
1967-70      Taught Dundee University American Summer School
1969         Elected Professorial member of Scottish Society of Artists
1971        Appointed Lecturer in Drawing & Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone, College of Art
1979         Scottish Arts Council Cost Award
1992         Elected Professional member of Aberdeen Artists
1993         Sabbatical, travelled to North America and Canada. Worked on location in the Rockies from Banff up to the Columbia Icefield at Jasper.

One Man Exhibitions

1958 & 61 Meffan Institute, Forfar
1968          Dundee University
1969          Royal Overseas League, Edinburgh Festival
1974          Murtle Galleries, Aberdeen
1980          Woodstock Gallery, London
1981 &83  Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1982          Roseangle Gallery, Edinburgh
1984 & 87 Gallery 22, Cupar
1988          Foresterhill, Aberdeen
1989          Dundee Art Galleries, Barrack Street, Dundee
1990          Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh
1992          Large Retrospective, invited artist for Inaugural Exhibition of Meffan Gallery, Forfar
1996/97       American Tour, Texas
1999          Arbroath Art Gallery
1999/00       Conoco, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen
2002          Invited Artist, Meffan Gallery, Forfar

Group Exhibitions

1954-60       Young Contemporaries, London
1956          Industrial Britain, London
1957          Glasgow Institute
1960          Savage Gallery, London
1962          Adam House, Edinburgh Festival
1965          Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1967          Montrose Festival
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1975          Stirling Gallery
1976          Kirkcaldy Art Gallery
1979          Forebank Studios, Dundee
1981          University of Surrey
1985          Dundee Art Gallery “As Ithers See us”, Contemporary Scottish Drawings, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
1986          Arts Club, Edinburgh Festival
1987          Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
Dundee Printmakers Members Exhibition, Jyvaskyla, Finland
1990          Duncan of Jordanstone School of Fine Art, Staff Exhibition McManus Galleries, Dundee
Ancrum Gallery, Jedburgh
1992          Dundee Art College Centenary Exhibition, McManus Galleries, Dundee
1999          Kingfisher Gallery, Edinburgh
“Artists’ Lunch”, McManus Galleries, Dundee
Dundee Printmakers Exhibition, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Also exhibits at RSA, SSA & Aberdeen Artists

Work in Private & Public Collections

HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Steel Company of Wales
Station of the Cross, St Fergus, Forfar
Meffan Institute, Forfar
Low & Bonar, Dundee
General Accident, Perth
Robert Fleming & Co. Collection, London
Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh
The Scottish Arts Council Collection
Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh
British Linen Bank, Head Offices, Edinburgh & London
Don & Low UK, Forfar
Foresterhill, Aberdeen
Dundee Art Gallery
Angus District Council
Scottish Widows
Conoco (UK) Ltd
Paisley Art Gallery

Also private collections in UK, Europe, USA etc.