Graeme Wilcox

Education

Attended Glasgow School of Art 1989–93. Graduated BA (Hons) Fine Art. Exchange to Brighton College of Art, January — March 1992.

Practice/Projects

Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art, has continued practice as a painter, working in WASPS studios in the Merchant City of Glasgow. Exhibits regularly in London and throughout the UK, both in group shows and one-man exhibitions. Recent work has featured the human figure in motion and underwater.
Collaborated on a number of multi-media projects with Mischief-la-bas performance group and other artists, culminating in projects at the Arches and Tramway in Glasgow and the Albany Theatre in London. Organised two large-scale mural projects, in collaboration with East End Community Arts, for Greater Glasgow Health Board.
Devised and ran “Face to Face” photography project in the East End of Glasgow. This Arts Council funded project culminated in a temporary public artwork at the East End Festival in Glasgow.

Awards

Prizewinner Aberdeen Artist’s Annual Exhibition, 2008
Finalist Celeste Art Prize, London.2006
Prizewinner at Paisley Institute Annual Exhibition. 2006
Glasgow Art Club Fellowship award. 2004
Arthur Andersen Prize for Best Young Artist at RGI Annual Exhibition 1998.
Runner-up prize, Black Swan Publishers Award, London 1999.
The Cross Trust Award to finance new work.
Hope Scott Trust. Grant awarded to finance mixed-media work, combining printmaking with painting.

Collections

Work held mainly in private collections in UK, USA and Canada. Also in public collections in Petrezovodsk, Russia and the gulf state of Qatar. Large painting in the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Edinburgh.