Gordon Mitchell RSA, RSW, RGI
Title: Tango
Date: 2009
Bronze, each H 33 cms x diam 14 approx
Gordon Mitchell’s paintings are consistently powerful and seldom without a sense of humour. His humour ranges from the sardonic and even
melancholic to the light-hearted and sometimes outrageously funny. Experiencing paintings by Mitchell is an immediate and easily accessible emotional event – an event, however, which lasts and restates itself in new ways, over and over with every new viewing, every new approach. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have some of his work will appreciate the depth and multiple layers of consciousness which he explores as he creates, constructs, reveals, exposes and generates in his work.
Ben Williams, Collector
Biography
Born in 1952, Gordon Mitchell studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1970 to 1975 and had a career in teaching until becoming a full-time painter in 1989. He was elected to the RSW in 1997, the RGI in 1998, elected an Associate of the RSA in 1998, and an Academician of the RSA in 2005. He is the current President of the Scottish Arts Club.
Selected Awards: RSA Student 1st Prize; EIS Purchase Prize; City Arts Centre Open Competition (Winner); Sir William Gillies Award (RSW); Dunfermline Building Society Award (SAAC); Scottish Provident Prize (SAAC); Whyte and Mackay Award (SAAC) ; Scottish Amicable Prize (RGI); Royal Bank of Scotland Award (RGI); John Murray Thompson Award (RSA); Maude Gemmel Hutchison Prize (RSA).
Selected solo exhibitions: Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006. Albemarle Gallery, London 2002, 2004, 2006. Portland Gallery, London 2008. Participated in numerous group shows throughout the world. Works included in a great many public and private collections at home and abroad. |
