CV Louise Ritchie > Past President SSA + Honorary Member.
QUALIFICATIONS >
2015 Currently undertaking Fellowship Higher Education Academy
2014-15 PGCert TQFE University of Dundee
1990-1991 PG Dip Drawing & Painting DJCAD Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
1986 -1990 BA (Hons) Fine Art DJCAD Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE > MEMBERSHIP & ESTEEM >
2016 Elected Selection Panel for SSA 2016
2016-2017 Engage -extend, Leadership Programme
2009-2014 Artist in Residence at Angus Council
2011-2015 Lecturer: BA [Hons] Contemporary Art Practice, City of Glasgow College, UWS University West of Scotland
2009-2015 Lecturer Museum of the University of St Andrews and International Summer School of St Andrews
2011-2013 President Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
2009-2011 Vice President of SSA
2009-2013 Board Member of ESSA: Exhibiting Societies of Scottish Artists
1997-1999 + 2008-2013 Council Member SSA
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES >
2015 Invited Special Guest to the Xth International Residential Print Symposium, Castle Mojmirovce, Slovakia
2015-Present 60 x 60 International Printmaking Touring Exhibition of 30 countries launching in, Antwerp, Belgium
2014-2015 `New Bridges 11:11 International Touring Exhibition, Nitra, Trencin, Piestany and Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 ‘Distance Learning’ with Leena Nammari SSA at the British Ambassador`s Residence, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 ‘Amaterus Paper Arts Academy Biennale’, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011, 2012 ‘Mosty / Bridges 1X’, Piestany, Slovakia, supported by the Slovak and The British Consul
2011-2013 ‘Design in Action GIDE’ creative lead in research-led international workshop with DJCAD and V&A Dundee
RESEARCH FUNDING AWARDS >
2013 Creative Scotland International Partnerships & Networks for SSA
2011-2014 Co-Founder Trigger Research Network, ArtWorks Scotland/Creative Scotland/AHRC/Paul Hamlyn Foundation
SELECTED AWARDS & NOMINATIONS >
2015 Dundee Visual Artist Award
2014 The Meffan Winter Show, Highly Commended Exhibition Award
1998 The Glasgow Art Club Fellowship, RGI, Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow
1997 The Scottish Arts Club prize, SSA, Edinburgh
1992 Dundee District Council Purchase prize
1990 & 1992 Nominated for Young Scottish Artist of the Year, Miller Homes
1990 Paris Cite International Des Arts award winner Miller Homes Scholarship
1989 Scholarship Winner, Hospitalfield School of Art, Arbroath, Scotland
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS >
2016 City of Glasgow College, City Campus
2012 Creative Dundee Pecha Kucha Vol 1, Dundee http://vimeo.com/32804825
2011-2012 ‘ Big Art Project’, Dundee City Council/Eastern Primary, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Gvlnw6IR0
2009-2014 Creative Facilitator , Project Blueprint with Angus Council and Ginkgo Projects, funded by Creative Scotland
2009 Co-Design arts intervention in collaboration with ‘Wide Open Space’ for Seaview Primary
2009 SSA/ DJCAD Juteopolis collaboration with Verdant Works and Dundee Heritage Trust
SELECTED PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE & FILM>
2013 ‘Lyke a River’ film piece for Son of the Sea Productions
2009 ‘Speaking the Land’ performer and vocal coach for Dalziel + Scullion, Scottish Natural Heritage+ Gingko Projects
2009 ‘Meet Sid’ short film for ‘Wide Open Space’ in collaboration with the Care Commission & Dundee Rep Theatre
2006 Installation performance for ‘Killing Time’ Dundee Contemporary Arts by Suspect Culture & Graham Fagen
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS >
2016 ‘UNpainting’ at WASPS Project Space 1, Meadowmills, Dundee
2014 ‘Colour Flood’, at the & Collective Gallery, Bridge of Allan
2013 ‘In the Eye of the Needle’, NOMAS* Projects and McManus Galleries, Dundee
2012 ‘Imagineering’ at The Meffan Gallery, Forfar
2011 ‘Chromatopia’, Bridge View Gallery, Aberdeen
2007 ‘Visiones en Color; The White Gallery, Barcelona
1996 ‘Land Light Vision’, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
SELECTED GROUP & ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS >
2016 ‘Exquisite Corpse’, St Andrews Museum
2016 ‘Paint>Print>Paint’, Joint Collaborative Exhibition with Leena Nammari at The Meffan
1998-2016 SSA Annual Exhibition , RSA, Edinburgh
2013 Abstract, Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee
2012-2016 The Affordable Art Fair, London represented by Bridgegate Gallery
2011 RSA, the Royal Scottish Academy, NGS Edinburgh
2007 Air Gallery, London, Award Winners
2006 The London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington
2005 Royal Glasgow Institute, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
2002 Richard DeMarco Foundation, Edinburgh
1993 CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Espania Joven, Glasgow
1993 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, The Collectors Eye.
