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Adelaide

Shalhope

Adelaide (b.1964) is an American/British artist living and working in the countryside north of Glasgow. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies and a M.Ed. in childhood education. Her professional creative career began in the U.S. (Boston) in the 1990’s as a sole proprietor textile artist where for many years she designed and created large installations and bespoke homeware and fashion accessories for local shops and interior decorators. Her move to the U.K in 2009 saw her more traditional textile practice transition into creating multi-faceted mixed media works, a shift that was partly inspired by several lengthy visits, and a six-month living period in Arctic Norway (Tromsø). In 2017 after taking a course at the Glasgow School of Art she began painting, which is now her primary practice.

Disciplines: Painting

Materials: Acrylic, Assemblage, Oil

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Adelaide (b.1964) is an American/British artist living and working in the countryside north of Glasgow. She holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies and a M.Ed. in childhood education. Her professional creative career began in the U.S. (Boston) in the 1990’s as a sole proprietor textile artist where for many years she designed and created large installations and bespoke homeware and fashion accessories for local shops and interior decorators. Her move to the U.K in 2009 saw her more traditional textile practice transition into creating multi-faceted mixed media works, a shift that was partly inspired by several lengthy visits, and a six-month living period in Arctic Norway (Tromsø). In 2017 after taking a course at the Glasgow School of Art she began painting, which is now her primary practice.

Previous Experience

B. 1964 USA EDUCATION 1999 Certificate in Interior Design, Inchbald School of Design, London, UK 1995 M.Ed, Creative Arts in Learning, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA 1986 B.F.A. Theatre Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA ADDITIONAL STUDIES 2017 Explorations in Abstraction, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow UK 2008 Fashion as Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Recent exhibitions: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2026, 2025, 2023); Visual Arts Scotland Open Exhibition (2025-25)Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Irving Open 2025, Irving Gallery, Oxford; Lido Open 2024, Lido Stores, Margate; Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition (2024), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; and her first solo show ‘Somewhere Between the Soul and the Centre of the Earth,’ at iota, Glasgow, in May, 2024.

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