Neil MacPherson

Neil MacPherson studied Glasgow School of Art 1974-78, and Jordanhill College of Education from 1978-79. MacPherson’s first solo show with Compass was in 1986, and he is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the Royal Glasgow Institute. He has won numerous awards including the Aberdeen Artists Society, Shell Expro Award (twice); Royal Scottish Academy, Young Artist; Royal Overseas League Commonwealth Exhibition, Premier Award; Scotland on Sunday, Mayfest Award (twice); Royal Scottish Academy, London Scottish Award and London Highland Award. His work is in many private and public collections throughout the U.K and overseas, including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Scottish Parliament Collection, Edinburgh; NSW, Australia; Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art & Glasgow Art Gallery & Museums; BBC; Scottish Art Council; Nuffield Foundation; McLaurin Trust and Inverness Museum & Art Gallery. Throughout his career, MacPherson has exhibited widely in the UK, North America & Europe. Neil was elected as a Member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2006.

Solo Exhibitions

1986 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1988 Boundary Gallery, London
1989 Glasgow Print Studio
1991 Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1993 Boundary Gallery, London
1994 Electra Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
1995 Bohuslans Muse, Gottenburg, Sweden
1996 Claude Andre Gallery, Brussels Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1998 Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2000 ‘Window of Dreams’, Retrospective, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery Boundary Gallery, London
2004 Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer, London Boundary Gallery, London
2006 Compass Gallery, Glasgow (with James McDonald)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1998 New Paintings, Forbes Gallery, New York, USA
1999 The Plate Show, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Touring Britain
2000 Retrospective, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
2001 The Great Book of Gaelic, Touring Scotland, Ireland & America
2002 An Leabhor Mor, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, USA Invited artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2003 Invited Artist, Royal Glasgow Society of Fine Art
2004 New Acquisitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2005 The New Collection Exhibition, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
2006 20 Years of the Boundary Gallery, London
2006 Compass Gallery (with James McDonald)