Alison McWhirter
www.alisonmcwhirter.com
Nationality: British

Education:
1995-1998 BA Hons Fine Art: Painting Bath Spa University College (Formerly Bath Academy)
1998-2000 Postgraduate MA Visual Culture Bath Spa University College
2003-2004 PGCE Art and Design Teaching Secondary UWIC Cardiff
2010-2011 Art Psychotherapy Foundation course to MsC Queen Margaret University Edinburgh

Career:
Account Manager and Staff Writer Future Publishing Bath 2000-2002

Teacher of Art and Design Secondary Bath area and Scotland 2004-2010

Full Time Painter 2011-Present

Selected Exhibitions

2011 Solo Exhibition Harbour Arts Centre , Irvine

2012 Group Exhibition Scotland Art , Glasgow

2014 20-21st International Royal College of Art with Carina Haslam London
2014 New York Art Fair with Carina Haslam Gallery London

2015 New York Art Fair with Carina Haslam, London
2015 Hong Kong Art Fair, Fairfax Gallery London
2015 20-21 International Art Fair at The Royal College, London
2015 ‘Squaring the Circle’ Two person show with Stephen Skrynka, Glasgow

2016 New York Art Fair Carina Haslam Gallery London
2016 Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Show
2016 Solo Exhibition ‘True Colours’ The Russell Gallery, London

2017 NYC Art Fair with Carina Haslam Gallery London
2017 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual show

2018 Solo Exhibition The Russell Gallery ,London
2018 New York Art Fair Carina Haslam, London
2018 Group Exhibition ‘I also Paint, Female Artists North West Painters, Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury

2019 Singapore Art Fair, Lime Tree Gallery
2019 New York Art Fair, Line Tree Gallery
2019 Solo Exhibition, ‘Wild Love’, Smithy Gallery Glasgow

2020 RSA Annual Exhibition Edinburgh
2020 Solo Exhibition, ‘How Flowers Feel’, The Russell Gallery, London
2020 ‘Curle’ group exhibition with Trevor Sutton, Carol Robertson, Langlands and Bell and Stephen Skrynka
2020 New York Art Fair , Lime Tree Gallery
2020 Hampstead Art Fair, London Lime Tree Gallery

2021 Solo Exhibition ‘Painted Love’ Smithy Gallery Glasgow
2021 Hampstead Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery
2021 Battersea Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery

2022 Solo Exhibition ‘The Force that Through the Green Fuse Binds the Flower’ The Russell Gallery, London
2022 New York Art Fair, Lime Tree Gallery
2022 Hampstead Art Fair, London Lime Tree Gallery

2023 Solo Exhibition ,’Blue Territory’ Doubtfire Gallery Edinburgh
2023 Solo Exhibition , ‘Meditations on Colour’ Annan Gallery Glasgow
2023 Hampstead Art Fair, London Lime Tree Gallery
2023 New York Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery

2024 Group Show , ‘Lift others Up’ Abstract paintings with Rowena Comrie and Sarah Kudirka, Glasgow
2024 Solo Exhibition ‘Love Song’ The Russell Gallery, London
2024 New York Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery
2024 Singapore Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery
2024 Hampstead Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery
2024 Battersea Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery

2025 Solo Exhibition ‘Flowers by the Sea’ The Fairfax Gallery
2025 Group Exhibition ‘I am Woman’ Fraser Gallery, St. Andrews
2025 Hampstead Art Fair, London2025
2025 Group Show ‘Boldly Go’ Abstract painters, Rowena Comrie, Christopher Wood RSW Smithy Gallery Glasgow
2025 New York Art Fair Lime Tree Gallery Bristol
2025 Solo Exhibition, ‘Colours of Love’ The Annan Gallery, Glasgow
2025 Boston Fair Lime Tree Gallery Bristol
2025 ‘The Thread that Pulls’ VAS, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2026 ‘La Vie En Rose’ solo exhibition Morningside Gallery , Edinburgh
2026 New York Art Fair, Lime Tree Gallery Bristol
2026 Battersea Art Fair London , Lime Tree Gallery Bristol
2026 Hampstead Art Fair, Lime Tree Gallery Bristol
2026 Austin Art Fair USA , Lime Tree Gallery Bristol