C.V. for Alan King

Born Glasgow 1946
Trained, Glasgow School of Art 1964 � 68

1970 - 80 Exhibited regularly with Renfrewshire teachers in Paisley Museum.
1989,91, 93,95.97 Paisley Drawing Competition
1990 Artist member of Paisley Art Institute. Annual exhibitor with this group.
1993 onwards, regular exhibitor at the R.G.I. Glasgow
1995 Artist member of the Glasgow Art Club.

From 1994 I have exhibited regularly in the following Galleries.
Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
Gatehouse Gallery, Giffnock, Glasgow
Thompsons Gallery London, Albeburgh and Stow-on�the-Wold
Colours Gallery, Edinburgh
Queens Gallery, Aberdeen
Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey
Lemon St. Gallery, Cornwall

First one man show in Art Exposure Glasgow in August 1997

I have also exhibited regularly at the following art fairs in Islington, Chelsea, London and Glasgow

1998 Three Person Show Gallery 41, Edinburgh
Four Person Show Green Gallery, Aberfoyle
Four Person Show Albamarle Gallery, London
Scottish Show Thomson�s Gallery, London
Four Person Show Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh
Mixed Show Frames Gallery Perth
Glasgow Art Club touring exhibition to
Aachan, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Paris

1999 One person show in Art Exposure Glasgow and various group
shows in the above galleries.
2000 Two person show in Thompsons Gallery, London
One person show in Gallery 41, Edinburgh
Three person show in Richmondhill Gallery, Richmond
Millennium show, Albemarle gallery
Various Group shows in most of the above galleries

2001 Group shows in Thompsons Galleries, Art Exposure, Richmondhill, Gallery 41, Queens Gallery, Lemon Street Gallery and art fairs throughout the country.

2002 I continue to exhibit with most of the above.
Two person show in Thompsons, Marylebone.
One person show in August at Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow.

2003 Group shows in Thompsons, Richmondhill, Art Exposure, Queens
and Gallery 41.

It is only in the last ten years that I have seriously started painting.
After nearly thirty years in teaching, I started to paint full time in 1999.
I have enjoyed the experience of trying to put into practice the work ethic and lessons of teaching art full time. I am interested in the process of painting and am constantly investigating and reading about the materials and the craft of painting.

The Red Hat continues to be a major theme within my work. Storytelling and a love of early Italian Art are the roots of the development of my work. I try to create images which are visually compelling and which form a bond with the spectator. Many of the images and the titles used have their source in literature and poetry. Much of the work starts with the title which may be taken from Dante, Sorley Maclean a Scottish poet. This leads to ideas which are developed with life models and a miniature theatre which I built. Manikins and backgrounds are positioned and photographed with different lighting effects.



I have work in private collections in U.S.A., Hong Kong and Canada
Corporate collections. Prudential
Publications: Homes and Interiors Scotland. April 2001





Alan King