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David Martin RGI RSW
Artist Biography
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PLACE OF BIRTH 1922 Glasgow, Scotland
     
EDUCATED 1940-42 Glasgow School of Art
  1946-48 Glasgow School of Art under David Donaldson
    1948-49 Jordanhill Teacher Training College
    1949-59 Studied design evening classes with Robert Stewart, GSA
    1949 Elected Professional Member SSA
    1959 Elected member of Royal Glasgow Institue of Fine Arts
    1961 Elected Member of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
    1991 Member of SAAC
    1993 Elected Honorary Member of Society of Scottish Artists
       
ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS 1965 Stone Gallery, Newcastle
  1979 Strathclyde University
  1983 Fair Maids Gallery, Perth
  1984 Gallery 22, Cupar, Fife
  1985/90 Torrance Gallery
    1991 Kingfisher Gallery
    1992/4 Thackeray Gallery, London
    1994/9/2001/5/9 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art
    1995/7/9/2000/2/3/6 John Martin Gallery
    1995 The Fosse Gallery
    1999 Perth Museum and Art Gallery
       
  AWARDS 1991 Member Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen
    1993 Elected Honorary Member of Society of Scottish Artists
    1974 Robert Colquhoun Memorial Prize
    1981 Friends of Stirling Art Gallery
    1984 May Marshall Brown Award, RSW
    1985 EIS Purchase Award, SSA
    1988 Prize-winner, Hamilton Museum Exhibition
    1990/93 Prize-winner, Laing Exhibition
    1990 The Mabel Mackinley Award, RGI
    1995 David Cargill Award, RGI.
    2003 RSW Council Award
       
 

COLLECTIONS

 

  The Scottish Arts Council; Scottish Television; City of Edinburgh Art Collection; Edinburgh Corporation; Robert Fleming & Company; East Kilbride Town Council; Education Authorities of Edinburgh, Argyll, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire; the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock; Clydesdale Bank; Warburg Asset Management; Credit Lyonnais, London; The Earl of Moray; Dr. T. Shimizu; Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden; Lord Goold; Linklater & Paines, London.