Professional Member Alexander Nisbet
Professional MemberDetails
| First Name | Alexander |
| Last Name | Nisbet |
| Username | alex-nisbet |
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| Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting, Printmaking |
Statement
| Statement | I have always been fascinated by drawing and mark making, as a child I drew, painted and made things. My Father was a talented musician with his own Scottish Country Dance Band and my particular creative journey also started out in music, albeit playing in a rock band in the 60’s/70’s ! I wanted to go to Art School and in 1974 I was accepted into Edinburgh College of Art …. I never looked back. Today I still make music and am also fortunate enough to paint full time. From the 70’s to today I have been lucky enough to keep both creative forces on board, they are my ying and my yang. If there is an underlying theme to my work it is just that, contrast, balance and the forces of nature. Newtons Third Law – ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’ generally underpins the way I work and the end product I achieve. I like that the physical world is in balance and I will always try to reach a compositional balance in an image, that image may very often start with a deliberate and conscious imbalance as a means to tip it into the ‘unknown’. This way I feel that I push myself to explore the very nature of picture making and painting in particular. I still get excited by the endless possibilities that flow from a brush loaded with paint, I resist pure abstraction and choose to paint the world around us, the ordinary and the extraordinary, hoping to capture an enduring moment in time, a conclusion that I often refer to as an ‘unstill life’. Alexander Nisbet
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Biography
| Biography | ALEXANDER NISBET Studied Drawing and Painting- Edinburgh College of Art 1974 -1978 Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship to Sri Lanka 1978 Awarded Post Graduate Study – Edinburgh College of Art 1978 – 1979 Joined the ‘Glasgow League of Artists’ – 1980 Elected Professional Member – Society of Scottish Artists 1982 Council Member – Printmakers Workshop Edinburgh 1985 – 1988 Scottish Arts Council Print Commission, 1988 “City of Edinburgh” Award, Royal Scottish Academy -1990 Member of Council. Society of Scottish Artists – 1993 -1996 “Premier One” Award, Society of Scottish Artists – 1993 “Scottish Arts Club” Award, Society of Scottish Artists – 1996 Set up Studio in Nicosia, Cyprus – 2008 Set up Studio in The Artists Shed, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia – 2011
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN – UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan , U.S.A. Cyprus, WORKS IN COLLECTIONS OF – Arts in Fife Bank of Scotland British Council City Art Centre, Edinburgh City of Nottingham Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh University Leeds Education Authority Motherwell District Council Napier University, Edinburgh NHS Borders NHS Grampian NHS Lothian Pharmaceutical Society Royal Bank of Scotland Scottish Arts Council Scottish Equitable Regular Exhibitor in mixed exhibitions by the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Society of Scottish Artists. ONE MAN SHOWS – 1983 – Edinburgh University Staff Club 1988 – Edinburgh College of Art 1990 – Peacock Artspace Aberdeen – ‘Unstill Life’ 1993 – Traverse Edinburgh – ‘Actor Series’ 1998 – Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh – ‘ Times Tables’ 2003 – Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder – Recent Prints 2009 – Art Cyprus Gallery, Nicosia – ‘New Images of Cyprus’ 2010 – ArtCyprus Gallery, Nicosia – ‘In a Cyprus Museum’
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