Graeme Wilcox VCR 2018

Explanation no. 1

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Performance ritual

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Small gesture

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Outside edge

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Biografie

Studeerde aan de Glasgow school of Art van 1989 tot 1993.
Afgestudeerd met grote onderscheiding als bachelor in grafische kunsten. 
 
Stelt als professioneel schilder tentoon in solo- en groepstentoonstellingen in
Londen en het VK. en wordt vertegenwoordigd door
Galerie Van Campen & Rochtus, België.
Wilcox heeft zijn atelier in WASPS Southblock Studios in Glasgow, Schotland.
 
Recente werken tonen vaak pendelaars in de stad en reizigers in half vergeten
plaatsen. De omstandigheden en scenes zijn zowel imaginair
als gebaseerd op herinneringen.
De schilderijen van Graeme Wilcox zijn een symbiose tussen beweging en
stilleven, een contradictie die de bevreemding in het alledaagse leven en de
mensen om ons heen wil benadrukken.
 
Naast werken in opdracht toont Wilcox reeksen portretten van anonieme mensen
waarbij hun karakters en eigenaardigheden worden aangegeven door hun
voorkomen en houding.

Onderscheidingen en prijzen

Scottish Portrait Awards Exhibition, Edinburg. 2017
Walter Scott Purchase Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow. 2016
Prince of Wales Drawing Award, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Londen. 2016
Stern Prize, Visual Arts Scotland. 2016
1ste prijs Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2015
Towry Award beste schilderij aan the National Open Art Competition. 2013
1ste prijs Visual Art Scotland, RSA Edinburg. 2012
1ste prijs Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2009
1ste prijs Visual art Scotland, City Art Centre, Edinburg. 2009
1ste prijs Aberdeen Artists Society jaarlijkse tentoonstelling. 2008
Finalist Celeste Art Prize, Londen. 2006
1ste prijs Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2006
Glasgow Art Club Fellowship prijs. 2004
Arthur Andersen Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute. 1998
2de prijs Prize. Black Swan Publisher's Prize, Londen. 1999
Cross Trust Award voor ondersteuning van nieuw werk.
Hope Scott Trust Grant voor ondersteuning van nieuw werk.

Collecties
 
Werken in private collecties in VK, VS en Canada.
Private collecties in België en Nederland.
Museale collecties in Petrezovodsk, Rusland en in Qatar.
Portret van Dhr. en Mevr. Conway, te bezichtigen in Conway hall, London.
Portret van de Joint Senior Partners in de burelen van Turcan Connell, Edinburg.
Royal Bank of Scotland collectie, Edinburg.
Walter Scott & Partners collectie, Edinburg.
Aberdeen Asset Management. Edinburg.
Standard Chartered Bank. Londen
Prudential collectie. Londen

Biography

Attended Glasgow school of Art 1989-93.
Graduated BA(Hons) Fine Art in Printmaking. 
 
Since Graduating from GSA, has continued artistic practice as a painter,
exhibiting regularly in solo shows and group exhibitions in London
and throughout the UK. Represented by Galerie Van Campen & Rochtus, Belgium
Currently based in WASPS Southblock Studios in Glasgow, Scotland
 
Recent paintings depict commuters and people travelling through
half-remembered spaces, situations and scenes based upon memories both real
and imagined. 
These paintings are partly an attempt to balance a sense of movement with a
sense of stillness, a contradiction which hopefully heightens the strangeness of
everyday life and the people around us.
 
Other work includes commissioned portraits and an ongoing series of portraits 
depicting anonymous individuals, their characters 
reimagined according to what their appearance suggests.

Awards

Scottish Portrait Awards Exhibition, Edinburgh. 2017
Walter Scott Purchase Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow. 2016
Prince of Wales Drawing Award, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London. 2016
Stern Prize, Visual Arts Scotland. 2016
Prizewinner Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2015
Towry Award prize for best painting at the National Open Art Competition. 2013
Prizewinner Visual Art Scotland, RSA Edinburgh. 2012
Prizewinner Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2009
Prizewinner Visual art Scotland, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. 2009
Prizewinner Aberdeen Artists Society Annual exhibition. 2008
Finalist Celeste Art Prize, London. 2006
Prizewinner Paisley Institute Fine Art. 2006
Glasgow Art Club Fellowship award. 2004
Arthur Andersen Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute. 1998
Runner up Prize. Black Swan Publisher's  Prize, london. 1999
Cross Trust Award to finance new work.
Hope Scott Trust. Grant awarded to finance new work.

Collections
 
Work held mainly in private collections in UK, USA and Canada.
Private collections in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Public collections in Petrezovodsk, Russia and the gulf state of Qatar.
Portrait of Mr&Mrs Conway displayed in Conway hall, London.
Portrait of the Joint Senior Partners in HQ of Turcan Connell, Edinburgh.
Royal Bank of Scotland Collection, Edinburgh
Walter Scott & Partners collection, Edinburgh
Aberdeen Asset Management. Edinburgh
Standard Chartered Bank. London
Prudential Collection. London

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