Robert Powell graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008, and then an MFA in Art, Space and Nature in 2011 at the same institution.
Since then he has exhibited at many places in Scotland and abroad, prizes include the John Watson Prize in 2008, the Benno Schotz RSA prize in 2011 and the Deloitte SSA Prize in 2013. Recent work includes A Universal History of Iniquity, which was a history of the world in 16 etchings and the cosmological doll houses, High Rise and Species of Space: The Incredible Visible City. Currently, he is working on Saints in Spandex, a litany of dead-superheroes, a lament and a prayer.
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Education
2009 – 2011; Edinburgh College of Art: Art Space and Nature MFA (distinction)
2003 – 2008; Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art; MA Fine Art in Painting (2/1)
Awards
SSA Deloitte Award 2015
Winner of SSA Engramme exchange 2013
Shortlisted for Bristol’s Playable Cities
Winner of the RSA Benno Schotz Award; 2011
Nominated for the ECA Chairman’s Medal 2011
Winner of the John Watson Award 2008
Joint-winner of RMJM Architecture Award 2006
Andrew Grant Award 2007
Residencies
Paradigm North, Timespan, Helmsdale, Scotland, April-June 2015
Yamaguchi Society for Contemporary Art Residency, Kimachi House, Yamaguchi, Japan, October – November 2013
Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Akiyoshidai, Japan, September-October 2013
Madness in Revolt, Edinburgh University, April 2011
Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, Glasgow University, June 2010
Edinburgh Academy, 2008-2009
Solo Exhibitions
The Species of Space, April - July 2016, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
The Palace of Forgetting, August 2014, Kaname Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
The Palace of Forgetting, May 2014, The Warburton Gallery, Edinburgh
Histoire Universelle de l'Infamie, March 2014, Engramme Print Gallery, Quebec, Canada
The Thinking Machine, October 2013, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Akiyoshidai, Japan
Mapping The Burning Lands: April 2012, Aichi Prefecture University of Fine Art and Music, Nagoya, Japan
The Bone Library: August 2011, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Histories of the Perplexed: April 2011, Stag Studios, Edinburgh
Macpherson’s Cave: Shadow and Enlightenment: August-September 2010, The Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh
The Modern Agoge: The Edinburgh Academy, June 2009
John Watson Prize 2008: Robert Powell: November 2008–February 2009, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Lectures on the Shadow: September 2008, The Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh
Curating
More Than Bird: August 2012, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
