Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie
1962 Born Newport, Fife, Scotland
1979-1984 Edinburgh College of Art
1983 Richard Ford Award, Royal Academy, London
1984 DAAD Scholarship, Berlin
1986 King Edward VII British German Foundation, Berlin
1988 "Scottish Painters: Gwen Hardie" STV.20 mins
1990-1996 Visiting artist and tutor: Glasgow School of Art;
Edinburgh College of Art; Sheffield Polytechnic;
St. Martins School of Art, London;
Brooks University Oxford;
Royal College of Art, London
Solo Shows
1984 Studio Gallery, Glasgow
1986 Paton Gallery, London
1987 Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
travelling to:
Seagate Gallery, Dundee
Artspace, Aberdeen
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Artsite, Bath
McLaurin Gallery, Ayr
Pier Art Centre, Stromness
1988 Kettles Yard, Cambridge
1990 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Fischer Fine Art, London
1994 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 Gwen Hardie, Paintings 1995-1996, Jason & Rhodes, London
Group Shows
1982 National Portrait Gallery, London
1985 Contemporary Art for Museums CAS Purchases
1982-1984, Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey
1986 Twelve British Artists, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
The Human Touch, Fischer Fine Art, London
Identity-Desire, Scottish Arts Council Touring Show
1987 The Self Portrait - A Modern View, Artsite Bath,
'The Vigorous Imagination', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1988-1990 The New British Painting, travelling to:
The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati
Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre
Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
The Queens Museum, Flushing Meadow, New York
Scottish Contemporary Painting, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Cabinet Paintings, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1992 'Critics Choice', Bruton St. Gallery, London
'Artistic Association', Gillian Jason Gallery, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
'Somatic States - The Body Abstract', Quicksilver Gallery, Middlesex Polytechnic
'Festival Fourteen', Dunfermline City and District Museum of Art
1992-1994 'Foreground and Distances', Galleria De Serpenti, Rome, travelling to
Germany and Holland
1993 Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1995 Jason & Rhodes, London, with Arthur Boyd and Calum Colvin
Collections
British Council, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Leicester County Council
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
City Art Collection, Edinburgh
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon
Scottish Arts Council
Unilever PLC, London
Stanhope Properties PLC, London
Sundridge Park Management Centre, London
Glaxo Group Research Ltd
Manchester Museum of Modern Art
Bibliography
Andrew Graham Dixon, Good with Figures, The Independent, 23 March 1986
Alice Bain, Back to Earth, The List 3, 16 April 1986
Martina Margetts, 'Free Spirits with Designs on Vienna', Financial Times, 24 April 1986
Mark Currah, 'Gwen Hardie', City Limits, 1986
Keith Hartley, 'Making Sense of Existence', The Scotsman, 23 March 1987
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'Paintings and Drawings by Gwen Hardie', The Fruitmarket,
March 1987
Andrew Huges, 'Gwen Hardie', Arts Review, 4 December 1987
Christopher Hansford, 'Goodbye to Soft Hearts', Bath and West Evening Chronicle, 12 April 1988
Frances Spalding, 'Status Symbol' Harpers and Queen, April 1988
Keith Alexander, 'Scottish Art Now: Gwen Hardie', Channel 4 Television, 20 minutes, 1988
Davis Lee, 'The Artist as Amazon', The Times, 14 February 1990
Claire Flowers, 'Galleries', Scotland on Sunday, 18 February 1990
'A Sensual Mugger Who Is Watching Her Figure, Observer, Scotland,18 February 1990
Murdo Macdonald, 'Original Work by Developing Artist', The Scotsman,19 February 1990
Keith Hartley, 'New Paintings, Sculptures and Works on Paper by Gwen Hardie', Fisher Fine Art, London, February 1990
Hilary Robinson, 'Engaging Femininity and the Art of Seduction', Glasgow Herald, 7 March 1990
Tom Lubbock, 'A Light Touch for the Female Form', The Independent on Sunday, 8 April 1990
Paul Wood, 'Letter from Scotland', Arts Magazine, April 1990
Margaret Garlake, 'Primitive Origins, Royal Academy Magazine, No.26, Spring 1990
Christopher Andrea, 'A Women Who Looks Into and Through', The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 1990
Margaret Walters, 'Relative Values', Modern Painters, Autumn 1992
Tim Hilton, 'Jam on the Southbound Carriage, Fifty Scots Painters take Edinburgh to Hackney', The Independent on Sunday, 15 August 1993
Edward Gage, 'Divine Abstraction and Surface Tension', The Scotsman, 2 April 1994
Gwen Hardie, 'An Artists Diary' Art Review, February 1994
Celia Lyttleton,'Body Of Work', Tatler,January 1994
Gordon Smith, 'Big Ideas', Scotsman on Sunday, 20 March 1994
Richard Swier and Gwen Hardie,'Mind in Body' - Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Gwen Hardie, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, January - March 1994 and touring to Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, March - April 1994
Christopher Andrea, 'Gwen Hardie: Gentle yet Unnerving Work', The Chrsitain Science Moniter, April 1994
John Keenham, 'Gwen Hardie: Mind in Body', The Big Issue, February 1994
Beatrcie Colin,'Body and Soul' , The List, 11 March 1994
Claire Henry, 'Stinging Salvos of Flesh', The Herald, 4 February1994
Sue Hubbard, Arthur Boyd, Calum Colvin, 'Gwen Hardie: Jason & Rhodes', Time Out, 1 March 1995
John Russell-Taylor, 'Arthur Boyd, Gwen Hardie, Calum Colvin', The Times, 21 February 1995
Judith Bumpus,'Gwen Hardie', Jason & Rhodes, March 1996
