Handwritten artist's label verso
Label verso: Macaulay Gallery, Stenton
Note: "Gail Harvey is one of the UK’s most powerful painters. Her work captures an energy which goes further than the elemental forces which surround her sea-facing Shetland studio, and into a realm of purity of energy. Harvey’s lightness, and feeling for scale and colour, shows a skill that is seldom seen. Gail Harvey manages to remove all unessential things from her paintings; including herself, sometimes.” Tony Davidson (Kilmorack Gallery). Gail Harvey was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art before moving to Shetland in 1988. Born Glasgow 1954, 1972-77 Glasgow School of Art: Diploma of Art and Diploma of Post Graduate Studies. 1988. Moved to live in Shetland; Member of the Shetland Arts Trust’s visual arts sub-committee.; SCHOLARSHIPS: 1975 Hospitalfield Summer School ,Arbroath.; 1977 Scottish Education Department Travelling Scholarship.; INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE; Since 1979 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours.; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.; Royal Scottish Academy; SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE; 1991 The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton.; 1994 The Bohoga Gallery, Shetland.(Opening exhibition); 1994 The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton.; 1997 Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow; 1998 Adam Gallery, Bath.; 2000 Adam Gallery, Bath.; 2002 Adam Gallery, Bath. Adam Gallery, Cork Street, London.; 2005 Adam Gallery, Bath. Adam Gallery, Cork Street, London.; 2008 Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow.; 2012 Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum & Archives, Lerwick.; 2013 Arusha Gallery,Edinburgh.; 2016 “60 Degrees North”, Arusha Gallery , Edinburgh.; MIXED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE; The Macaulay Gallery, Stenton.; The Arts Centre, Leeds.; The Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld.; Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow.; The Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.; Adam Gallery, Bath (Two person show); London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington, with Adam Gallery.1997-2006.; The Fine Art &Antiques Fair, Olympia, with Adam Gallery.; Art on Paper, London, with Adam Gallery.; Works on Paper, New York, with Adam Gallery, 2000-2005.; Art of the 20th Century, New York, with Adam Gallery, 2002 & 2003; Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida, with Adam Gallery 2003 & 2004.; Malloy,Norway; Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 2002.; 20/21 British Art Fair, London, with Adam Gallery,1997-2006.; West Fest, Kinetic Landscapes, Stranraer Museum. 2013.; The Power of the Sea, Making Waves in British Art, 2014; (Royal West of England Academy, Bristol); Midsummer Night, Arusha Gallery, 2014; Edinburgh Art Fair, with Arusha Gallery, 2014, 2015 & 2016; 20/20 Bonhoga Gallery, 20th Anniversary Show, 2014.; London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington with Arusha Gallery 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017; Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London with Arusha Gallery, 2015; Undercurrents, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2015.; September Song, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, 2015.; What Seas What Shores, Six painters from Orkney and Shetland.; (Museum, Lerwick 2014 travelling to Woodendbarn Gallery, Banchory 2015); Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire. 2015 & 2016; Summer Exhibition,Roger Billcliffe,Glasgow,2016.; Postcard Exhibition,Roger Billcliffe,Glasgow. annually.; AWARDS INCLUDE; 1985. Royal Scottish Academy-John Murray Thomson Award.; 2011, 2012 & 2014 Visual Arts Award -Creative Scotland and Shetland Arts.; PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS INCLUDE: Shetland Museum and Archives.; Shetland Arts Trust.; Highland and Islands Enterprise.; Wolfson College, Oxford University.; Grant Thornton Accounting.; Colleagues Direct Marketing.; Robert Fleming Asset Management.; Goldman Sachs.; Sir John and Lady Keegan.; Lady Singer.; Belmont House Trust, Shetland.; Work in private collections including Scotland, England, Wales, Norway, Italy, Greece, Switzerland and USA.