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Sue

Barclay

Sue Barclay is a Glasgow-based visual artist working across painting, collage and constructed forms. Moving between abstraction and representation, her current work explores colour, mark, shape and space, and the meeting points between inner and outer experience. Her practice is intuitive and responsive, allowing images and forms to emerge through the process of making.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Glasgow

Materials: Acrylic, Objects, Oil, Paper Cutting, Watercolour
Sue Barclay is a Glasgow-based visual artist working across painting, collage and constructed forms. Moving between abstraction and representation, her current work explores colour, mark, shape and space, and the meeting points between inner and outer experience. Her practice is intuitive and responsive, allowing images and forms to emerge through the process of making.

Previous Experience

Education BA (Hons) Drawing & Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, 1984 Postgraduate Studies, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, 1986–87 Awards Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship, 1985 Morrison Scott Portrait Award, Commended, 1998 ASPECT Painting Prize, 2005 Residencies Western Baths, Glasgow, 2009–10 Refresh Residency, Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist, 2022 Selected Exhibitions Royal Glasgow Institute, 1991–2005 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London, 1993 London Art Fair, Glasgow Art Fair & Battersea Art Fair, 2002–05 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, 2006 Poolside Gallery, Colonsay, 2008 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, 2011 The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2013 House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, 2014 Nicolls Gallery, Glasgow, 2021

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