Matthew Draper
Time and Place
13 November to 23
December
Born
in Staffordshire in 1973
Education
1991-1992
Walsall College of Art
1992-1995
Falmouth College of Arts, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Awards
2006 Cross Gate Gallery Award, Kentucky. Awarded at the Mall Galleries
2006 John Murray Thompson Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2004
Contemporary Fine Art gallery
Award, Paisley Art Institute
2004 Most popular work in the exhibition, Hunting Art Prize
2002
City of Glasgow Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts
2001
Commendation,
Aberdeen Artists
2000
Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award – Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Watercolour
Collections
Bank of Scotland
City of Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Jean F Watson Bequest Fund
Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvin Grove, Glasgow
Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland
Premier Property Group, Edinburgh
Morton Frazer Solicitors, Edinburgh
Various Private Collections; Australia, New Zeland, Canada, Europe and the USA
Commissioned by The Morton Street Gallery, London for the Calledonia Hotel, Edinburgh
Solo Exhibitions
2006
Time and Place, Beaux Arts, Bath
2005
Nostalgia, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2004
Panorama, Beaux Arts, Bath
Old Town, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London, work selected to go on tour to
The Gallery, Trebah, Cornwall.
2002
Atmosphere and Twilight, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2000
Night Life, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1999
The Reynolds Gallery, Edinburgh
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Auld Reekie to Zennor, Landscape Exhibition, Beaux Arts, Bath
The Jerwood drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and Touring the UK
'Best of British' Chelsea Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Miami Art Fair
2005
Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts, Bath
2004
Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts, Bath
2003
Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Contemporary Painting, Panter and Hall, Mayfair, London
Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts - Bath
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
200 Hundred Years of Scottish Painting, Panter and Hall, Mayfair, London
Pastels Today, Pastel Society, The Mall Galleries, London
Art 2003, Islington, London.
Fresh Paint, McLean Fine Art, Cork Street, London
2002
Artists of Fame and Promise, Panter and Hall, Mayfair, London
Contemporary Scottish Painting, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts, Bath
Summer Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
From Fire to Light, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
Summer Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
Pastel Society Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London
RSW Exhibition, McManus Galleries, Dundee
21st Anniversary Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
Christmas Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
Affordable Art Fair, Panter and Hall, Mayfair London
Encounter, Roger Billcliffe, Glasgow
Summer Show, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Aberdeen Artists, Aberdeen Museum and Gallery
Chelsea Art Fair, Panter and Hall, Mayfair
Pictures at an Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2000
Christmas Show, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Opening Exhibition, St John Street Gallery, Ashbourne
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Paisley Drawing Prize, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
Strathearn Gallery
Summer Show, Richmond Hill Gallery, London
Art in the Square, Glasgow,
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Laing Painting Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Drawing Exhibition, Frames Contemporary Gallery, Perth
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Christmas Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, touring to The European Drawing Collection,
Hull
Karl Hofer Geselleschaft