Roanne Odonnell

Born in St. Andrews, O’Donnell is an award-winning Scottish painter currently working on the series of paintings, 'Surface BPM. 2023'. After 18 years of professional practice in Northern Norway, she now has studios in Spain and Scotland.

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With a Masters in Contemporary European Fine Art, she is an accomplished lecturer and curator, and parallel with her own art practice, spent five years as Director of Galleri NordNorge, the Gallery of Northern Norway, collaborating with museums and galleries such as the National Museum of Art in Oslo, showing work by Paul McCarthy, Norway 10 Designers and established international artists, while providing a platform to emerging. She has many years of experience on the boards of industrial, commercial and creative organizations such as NNBK (North Norwegian Artists’ Union), Innovasjon Norge's Creative Development Project, and as President of Fundación Sierra de Libar in Spain. Sitting on collection committees of Sparebank1 NN Art Foundation and art consultant for KORO, Norway's department of art for acquisitions in architecture, she has had the honour to commission artwork and contribute to advancing the careers of Norwegian artists.
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Works are in major collections including The Scottish Offic...

Master of Arts in Contemporary European Fine Art
Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, Sep 1997 - Jul 1998.
Post Graduate Diploma in Painting
Edinburgh College of Art, Sep 1987 - Sep 1988.
Bachelor of Arts in Drawing and Painting
Edinburgh College of Art, Sep 1983 - Jul 1987.

LATEST PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS 2017 - 2023

Fundación Pedro Cano de Blanca, Blanca, Spain 2022

50 Concurso Internacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia, Spain 2022

The Way, Albe Art Gallery St. Petersburg, Russia 2022

VII Concurso de Artes Plásticas Dcoop (Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza), Antequera, Spain 2022

Brussels Art Exhibition, Belgium with Monat Gallery, Madrid 2021

Contemporary British Painting | Exhibition 2021

Round Lemon Art Collective Artist Talk | Roanne O’Donnell 2021

COCA Project 2021, 'Artist Stories', COCA | Center Of Contemporary Artists, Rome 2021

The Creative Room, "Outside the Window Looking Within" a.topos International Curatorial Collective, Palazzo Dona Brusa, Venice 2021

The Enduring Legend of Experience, UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art at Madrid International Art Fai 2021

VIII Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarte 2021

Trento Art Festival, Trentino, Italy 2021

Realities in the Making, International Artists Exhibition, Rossocinabro Contemporary Art, Rome 2021

Xxiv Certamen De Pintura Indalecio Hernández Vallejo Xxiv, Valencia de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain 2020

Giornata del Contemporaneo, 'A Plural Identity', Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani with Rossocinabro, Rome 2020...