Alison Watt

Alison Watt

Alison Jane Watt OBE is a Scottish painter, born in Greenock in 1965.

Alison Watt graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1988. While still a student, she won the John Player Portrait Award and as a result was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Queen Mother. Her first works to become well known were dryly painted figurative canvases, often female nudes, in light filled interiors. An exhibition of her work entitled "Fold" in 1997 at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery was the first introducing fabric alongside her models. This may have been inspired by the 19th Century painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and also suggestion a movement towards more abstract art.

In 2000 she became the youngest artist to be offered a solo exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art with an exhibition called "Shift", with 12 huge paintings featuring fabric alone. Reviewers at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh suggest:she is a very good painter:"These edged ever more towards the abstract yet had a strange, sensual quality suggestive of a human presence [or absence] ."

Watt exhibited during the Edinburgh Festival 2004, installing a 12ft painting "Still", in the memorial chapel of Old St Paul's Church and showing 6 new paintings at the Ingleby Gallery. Linen bound books were published to commemorate each exhibition. For "Still", Alison Watt was awarded the 2005 ACE (Art+Christianity Enquiry) award for 'a Commissioned Artwork in Ecclesiastical Space' [http://www.acetrust.org/awards_about.php] .

Her subsequent project "Dark Light" was supported by her [http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/latestnews/1001095.aspx Creative Scotland Award] of 2004 from the Scottish Arts Council.

In Summer 2005 she took part in the prestigious Glenfiddich residency.

From January 2006 to February 2008, Watt served as the seventh [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/education/artist/alisonwatt.htm artist in residence] at the National Gallery, London [http://www.inglebygallery.com/newsDetail.php?id=55] . She worked within the gallery, inspired by particular items from the collection. The work she created in this time is displayed in a special exhibition, [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/alisonwatt/default.htm Phantom] , in the Sunley Room, running from 12 March to 22 June 2008. She is one of the youngest artists to present a solo exhibit at the gallery.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/29_12_07_hons_queen.pdf 2008 New Year Honours] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.inglebygallery.com/artistsDetail.php?id=24 Bio at Ingleby Gallery]
* [http://www.canongate.net/AlisonWatt Bio at Canongate.net]


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