Alison McWhirter Artist Bio – London Paint Club

London Paint Club

Alison McWhirter

b. 1975, Scotland. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Alison achieved her BA in Fine Art and her postgraduate MA in Visual Culture at Bath Academy. Alison uses bold marks and colours intuitively and spontaneously, her paintings are about pure feeling. She has exhibited her artwork in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Additionally, her first solo London show, True Colours was at The Russell Gallery and she has also exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy. In her own words about her work, “I’m striving to get at the beauty in the things that surround us, to that which elevates us beyond reason”.

Solo Exhibitions

2020 – Alison McWhirter: How Flowers Feel, The Russell Gallery, London
2020 – Painted Love, The Smithy Gallery, Glasgow
2018 – Wild Love, The Smithy Gallery, London
2018 – True Colours II, The Russell Gallery London
2016 – True Colours, The Russell Gallery London

Group Exhibitions

2021 – Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition
2018 – Hampstead Art Fair
2018 – Hong Kong Art Fair
2018 – Battersea Art Fair
2018 – Singapore Art Fair
2018 – Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition
2016, 2017, 2018 – New York Art Fair
2016 – Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition
2015 – Squaring the Circle, Stephen Skrynka, Glasgow
2014 – 20-21st International, Royal College of Art

Press & Publications

2020 – Review of Royal Academy Exhibition, The Scotsman Arts Newspaper, by Duncan MacMillan
2020 – Review of solo exhibition in Glasgow, The Scotsman Arts Newspaper, by Susan Mansfield
2018 – Review of solo exhibition in London, Galleries Magazine, by Nicholas Ushwerwood
2014 – Three Artists Making Waves in the Art World, Homes and Interiors Magazine, by Jan Patience