Compass Gallery

Hazel Walker

Hazel Walker was born in Aberdeenshire, studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1981-85, and later Wimbledon School of Art from 1999-2000, where she gained an M.A. in Drawing. She has lived and worked in Co. Clare, Ireland since 1993 and has exhibited widely in Ireland, also recently in Finland and the U.S.A. This is her first solo exhibition back in Scotland since 1993. She has won numerous awards including: the Travel Award, Department of Foreign Affairs (2000 & 1996); Adjudicators Award, Iontas; Ballinglen Foundation Fellowship; Iontas Drawing Award; Arts Council Studio Grant Award; L&P Financial Services Award; Whyte & MacKay Purchase Award, Society of Scottish Artists. Her work is in numerous public collections including: Christian Salvesen PLC Scotland; Environmental Protection Agency, Dublin; First National Building Society, Dublin; Kajaani Art Museum, Finland; KPMG, Dublin; L&P Financial, Dublin; O.P.W., Ireland;

Solo Exhibitions:

2007 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2005 Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston, U.S.A.
2004 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
2000 Galleria BE19, Helsinki, Finland
1998/95 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1996 Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
1993 Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2005 Galleria BE19, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarrif
Iontas National Prizewinners Exhibition, Sligo
2002/01 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2000 An t Oireachtas, Dublin
1999 Iontas, Sligo
65th Aberdeen Artists Exhibition, Aberdeen
Irish Contemporary Art, Turner-Carrol Gallery, Santa Fe, U.S.A

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