The Scottish Show

I was left a card from The Thompson's Gallery in Marylebone, London at my degree show in June last year. It said on the back that they would like me to contact them as soon as I moved down to London. I didn't get around to dropping by until last month this year, but they were very friendly and welcoming, and they also asked me if I wanted to show some work in their upcoming exhibition The Scottish Show which is on from the 3rd - 20th of March. So they will show three of my drawings (GiG36d, SLaB33d and KHiP27d) and a painting (MRDaDs11p). Aside from the Joint Exhibition of Drawings at the Prince's Drawing School, this will actually be my first show in London after graduation. The exhibition consists of work by both established and emerging Scottish artists.

MRDaDs11p (2007)

85x100 cm, acrylic on board

http://www.thompsonsgallery.com/Marylebone/InternalMain.asp

New Faces 2008 Update

I spent last weekend in in Edinburgh, as the private view for New Faces 2008 was on 11am - 1pm on Saturday. The weather was glorious, and it struck me - yet again - what a beautiful city it is. I feel privileged to have spent four years of my life there. I believe the opening of New Faces 2008 on Friday the 15th went well. I only attended the private view on Saturday.

The exhibition will, as I have mentioned earlier, be on until the 1st of March. They are open 6 days a week. Mon-Friday 11am-5.00, Sat 11am-4pm or by appointment by calling 0131 553 5255.

Tegnerforbundet - exhibition and membership

Tegnerforbundet, or the Norwegian Society of Draftsmen, was founded in 1916 and is the oldest of the societies for visual arts in Norway. Tegnerforbundet became a member of Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK- Norwegian Visual Artists) in 1982. I was already a member of NBK through UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund - Young Artists Society) when I applied for membership in 2007, and I am now also a full member of Tegnerforbundet. Its members are professional artists sharing similar economical, artistic and professional interests, and their 'office building' has become a centre offering support, information, exhibition opportunities as well as a professional forum for draftsmen and illustrators. The members' work are available for commissions and sale alongside portfolios and catalogues in the Commission Room at the back of the gallery space. The society's second-most important function is perhaps as a show room or gallery space. I applied for an exhbition space at the gallery in 2007 and was granted a show in April 2009. I am very happy about that as it is my first attempt - and getting a show there is quite hard.

I've currently got Hfi3d, HMaG2d and KCCaD28d hanging in their Commission Room, and catalogues of my work are also available.
Tegnerforbundet is located in an old part of Oslo (Rådhusgaten 17) called 'kvadraturen' near the fortress 'Akershus Festning'. More information is available at their web page http://www.tegnerforbundet.no