“Fresh colour, an exacting sense of design, technical skill and an inventive and restless mind... an exquisitely rendered body of work and a rare pleasure to experience.” Dr Janet McKenzie, Studio International October 2012.
Alan Robb (b. 24th February 1946, Glasgow) is a Scottish painter. He relies on reference material, he works from found objects and makes models. Robb has amassed countless images from various sources which later helps him compose his paintings. Reviewing the resulting body of work, it seems like a circular journey, based on intuitive choices and a growing understanding of what an artist can do. The motivation and momentum comes from a myriad of minor nuances which give each work its resolved identity.
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
2012- (Joint) Internal Auditor, Royal Scottish Academy.
2012- Hospitalfield House Alumni Committee.
2014- Convenor, RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy.
RESIDENCIES AND BURSARIES
2005 Carnegie Travelling Scholarship.
1998 British School in Rome.
1968-72 Robert Nicoll Trust for Post Grad Study.
1968 Hospitalfield Summer Scholarship.
KEY PUBLICATIONS, CURATIONS AND LECTURES
A Painted World. ISBN 0-900344-62-8, 2012.
In the Minds Eye. ISBN 1 899837 08 62005, I996.
The House of Miracles. ISBN 1 899837 485.
ART in CONTEXT Conference Birmingham,1990.
Public Art the Educational Dimension, invited speaker.
2002 NAFE conference Tate Britain /Clore Theatre Achieving a Balance– a paper on the relationship between Teaching and Research in our Art Colleges and the Arts and Humanities Research Board, main speaker.
KEY EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2012 A Painted World, McManus Galleries Dundee, a retrospective.
2011 Alan Robb Open Eye, Edinburgh solo exhibition.
2006 Ayermanyana? Yestermorrow, Fondacion Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain, invited artist.
2005 House of Miracles, East West Gallery, London, solo exhibition.
1999 Invention ,Illusion and Reality, East West Gallery, London, solo exhibition.
1998 I Live Now, Academy Gallerie Utrecht, Centre Space DCA with Ian Howard and Derrick Guild.
1997/9 True Knowledge, East West Gallery, solo exhibition.
1996 Seagate Gallery – Artspace, Peacock, Aberdeen, solo exhibition.
1996 Bruton St. Gallery, London, with William Crozier.
1994 5 Scottish Artists, Centre D’Art en L’Isle, Geneva.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
McManus Galleries & Museums Dundee Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Arts Council of Ireland Arts Council of Northern Ireland Arts in Fife Grays School of Art, Aberdeen University of Dundee Hunterian, Glasgow University Royal College of Art, London Annie Hughhill Trust, The Royal Academy, London HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Montgomery Securities, New York Fleming Wyfold Foundation, London
Also in private collections in the UK, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany and US
