Professional Member Gillian Adair McFarland
Professional MemberDetails
| First Name | Gillian Adair |
| Last Name | McFarland |
| Username | gillianmcfarland |
| Website | |
| Region | Fife |
| Disciplines | Ceramics, Installation, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture |
| Themes | Abstract, Environment, Identity, Landscape, Site-specific, Political, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | Visual Artist/Researcher with a collaborative practice. HCPC registered Art Therapist. Interests : Process, Materiality, Time, Psychoterratic States, Noticing. Graduate of St Martins, London My practice is research-focussed on the narratives that move me. I make creative interventions that are process led and that value embodied and situated learning. Underpinning my practice is a belief in the need to explore old and new ways of seeing and being in the world. I have been involved in a range of inter-disciplinary research projects collaborating with art therapists, artists, astronomers, geneticists, and social scientists. I am artist co lead on ArtMovesFife, a dynamic large scale collective artwork that is unfolding across the creative landscape of Fife. I work with a variety of materials and processes from my studio in moderately rural Fife. I am a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland and Society of Scottish Artists and am a council member of the SSA. https://www.creativityandcuriosity.com/ |
Biography
| Biography |
Awards, Prizes & Funded Projects 2024 Hoskings House, Residency Award Creative Scotland Award ArtMovesFife Project 2023 Institute of Physics Scotland Award for touring planetarium art show 2019 VACMA award, with Creative Scotland 2018 Arts Council Artists Award, ‘Developing your Creative Practice’ Royal Scottish Academy, WASP Residency Prize (The Booth, Shetland) Leicester Society of Artists, George Pickard Prize (Gold) 2017 Bath Fringe Arts Prize Arts Council Funded Research Project, ‘Drawing DNA’ Royal Astronomical Society Award for C&C Project Development and Workshops Hope Scott Funding for Art & Astronomy Project
Co/project lead 2023 ArtMovesFIfe, connecting people,culture,place and planet 2022 4 Nations International Fund collaborator Artist Support Recipe Book Creative Scotland Sustaining Creative Development Grant for SSA 2020 Creative Development Award Creative Scotland, ‘Harbour’ Daiwa Grant, ‘Confluence: Spirit of North’ Hutton Institute, Research grant, Meosis Project ‘Resilience Diaries’ Research Project Crafts Scotland,
Selected Exhibitions 2025 Scottish Symphony:Form and Colour, Crane Court Gallery, London 2024 SSA Annual Exhibition RSA, Edinburgh VAS Centenary Exhibition RSA, Edinburgh VAS Now and Then, Dalkeith Palace Way Markers, ArtMovesFife , St Andrews Botanics 2023 SSA Annual Exhibition , McLaurin Galleries Royal Scottish Society of Watercolours, Royal Scottish Academy. Green Gallery, Dundee Botanics (Hutton Institute, Meiosis) Space, Inaugural exhibition, National Space Research Centre, Leicester 2022 Creativity and Curiosity, Birmingham University. Commonwealth Cultural Programme SSA Annual Exhibition RSA, Edinburgh 2021 ‘In Time’ Harbour, Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust, Edinburgh ‘Dear Planet‘ National Theatre of Scotland Screenings. COP26 SSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh ‘ Confluence of North’, Creative Exchange Perth and An Lanntair Stornaway Kitikata City, Fukushima, Japan, Nishiaizu- Fukushima, Japan RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh ‘Surge’ Visual Arts Scotland , Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Criminal Quilts, touring exhibition with Ruth Singer Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh ‘Moons’ Glasgow Science Centre Dark Skies, An Lanntair, Stornaway 2019 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam 2018 Berlin Science Week, Zeiss Gross Planetarium, ‘Falling Walls’ National Space Centre, Leicester, ‘Creativity and Curiosity’ Society of Scottish Artists Open, Edinburgh The Edge, Bath University, ‘Visions of Science’ Royal Scottish Academy Open, Edinburgh (prize winner)
Bibliography/Publications Articles and Reviews “Wee art in the Wee Forest, a nature based art therapy pilot” International Art Therapy Journai Inscape. Armstrong, McFarland & Ramm Times Review of Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition. RSA Giles Sutherland Creativity and Curiosity: Exploring the Space Between Artists and Astronomers, G. McFarland & I. Parkin, Scottish Society for Art History Journal, 2023-2024 |