Ian Robertson

Ian Robertson was trained at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Helen Rose Travelling Scholarship ECA, Sir Robin Darwin Scholarship RCA, John Minton Scholarship RCA and the Pernod Arts award.
His work over the years has been concerned with the ways in which places, spaces, and events captivate, delight and disturb us.
Robertson has worked in a wide range of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation.
The work is ambitious, moving freely between abstraction and figuration it captures the complexity of our response to place as it is lived and felt. Between our direct observations and our more subjective experience of landscape.
Places are saturated with histories and competing narratives. They are also psychological spaces of the imagination where the border between the real and the virtual becomes thin and permeable. It is at this point on the cusp of the real and the virtual that painting generates its effects/affects.

1970 - 1973 MA Fine Art Royal College of Art, London
1965 - 1970 DA Fine Art Edinburgh College of Art

Awards
1989 Foundation Karolyi
1973 Darwin Scholarship
Fellowship to Skowhegan School of Art - USA
1972 John Minton Scholarship
1970 Helen Rose Travelling Scholarship
Principal Prize - Edinburgh College of Art
J Milner Kite Award
Andrew Granr Bequest
Postgraduate Award Edinburgh College of Art
Pernod First Prize Winner
1969 Scholarship Hospitalfield College of Art

Solo Exhibition

2017 Unit 10, London
2013 Unit 10, London
1999 NAF Gallery - Nagoya - “Without Walls”
1997 Plaza Gallery - Tokyo - “Re - Cycling Time”
1996 Northbank Gallery – London
1995 Leeds University-Ripon & York St. John
1993 London Guildhall University Gallery
1989 Rex Andrews, Baume-Les-Messieurs - France
1986 Adam Reynolds Gallery, London
1982 Octagon Gallery - Belfast
1972 Skowhegan School of Art - USA
Edinburgh College of Art

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2020 Espacio Gallery, London
2020 Espacio Gallery, London
2008 Notice Gallery, London
2005 Expo 2005
2005 Toyota Museum of Modern Art
2003 Safe, London
2001 Unit 2 London Metropolitan University
2000 Safe, London
2000 Unit 2 London Metropolitan University,
1999 Blackheath Conservatoire of Music & The Arts
Mall Gallery, London
1999 World Wide Network Art, London-Tokyo-Kyoto
1998 Festival UK '98 – Tokyo
1998 Toyota City Municipal Museum of Art, “Between
Borders”
1998 World Wide Network Art (Invited Section)
1997 Museum of Installation – London
1997 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1997 Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
1997 Japan - Europe The Gallery, Dock Street - London
1996 Toyota City Municipal Museu...