As a teenager Jock McFadyen attended Saturday morning classes at Glasgow School of Art. In 1966, at the age of 15, he moved to England and was educated at Chelsea School of Art gaining his BA in 1976 and MA in 1977. He also taught one day a week at the Slade School of Art between 1980 and 2005.
In 1981 McFadyen was appointed Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London. His paintings from the early eighties were populated by the waifs and stays of pre Canary Wharf London, he always said that the figures in his work were not inventions but sightings of individuals and events of the time. In 1991, Jock was commissioned by the Artistic Records Committee of the Imperial War Museum to record events surrounding the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and in 1992, he designed sets and costumes for Kenneth MacMillan’s The Judas Tree, Royal Opera House in 1992. It was at this point that the figure fell away from McFadyen’s work and the full-blown landscape, often a serious comment on life in the modern urban environment, and on a monumental scale, emerged and continues to preoccupy him to this day.
In 2005 he collaborated with his wife Susie Honeyman to create The Grey Gallery, to work with artists, writers and musicians on a project by project basis with the aim to work across all disciplines. Jock currently lives and works in London and Edinburgh. Jock has had over 40 solo exhibitions and his work is held by 30 public collections as well as private and corporate collections in Britain and abroad.
Profile
Born: 1950 in Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 24 May 2012
Gender: Male
Works by Jock McFadyen in the RA Collection
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Video
Jock McFadyen RA discusses his solo show at The Fleming Collection, and explains how his approach to painting has changed during the course of his career, 2012.
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Gallery
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Jock McFadyen, Tate Moss.
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Jock McFadyen RA - Selected CV
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Recent Solo Exhibitions
2012 Eleven Spitalfields, London
The Fine Art Society, London
The Fleming Collection, London
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
2011 Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
2010 Clifford Chance, London
2009 The Grey Gallery, London
2007 11 Princelet Street, London
The Grey Gallery, London
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh Festival -
Selected Collections
Amnesty International
Arts Council of Great Britain
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
BBC
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
British Council
British Museum
City of Edinburgh
Contemporary Art Society
Glasgow Art Galleries
The Government Art Collection
The Guildhall, London
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
The Imperial War Museum
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Manchester City Art Gallery
The Museum of London
The National Gallery, London
Scottish Arts Council
Tate Gallery, London
The Theatre Museum, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester -
Selected Publications
2001 Beyond Turners Road publication to accompany solo exhibition at Agnew’s, London, with story commissioned from Iain Sinclair
Jock McFadyen, A Book About a Painter, monograph by David Cohen with contributions from other authors, published by Lund Humphries
1999 From Orkney and Other Places, publication to accompany solo exhibition for St Magnus Festival at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, prose commissioned from Will Self
1998 Looking Out To Sea, catalogue for solo Edinburgh Festival exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, with an essay by Duncan Macmillan
1991 Fragments from Berlin, catalogue for solo exhibition at Imperial War Museum London, Kelvingrove Glasgow and Manchester City Art Gallery, with foreword by Angela Weight and essay by Tom Lubbock
Canal, catalogue for solo exhibition at William Jackson Gallery, London, with an introduction by Jeffery Camp and an essay by Howard Jacobson
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