Jock McFadyen RA (b. 1950)
Jock McFadyen was born in Paisley in 1950 and moved to England aged 15 in 1966. He gained his BA and MA from Chelsea School of Art which he attended from 1973 to 1977.
His first solo show was held at the Acme Gallery in London in 1978. Since then he has had over 40 solo exhibitions including at the National Gallery (residency show), Camden Arts Centre, the Imperial War Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Talbot Rice (Edinburgh Festival) and the Pier Art Centre (St Magnus Festival). His work has been included in many mixed exhibitions in the UK and abroad including John Moores, Hayward Annual and The British Art Show.
In 1981 McFadyen was appointed Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London and a decade later he was invited to design sets and costumes for Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s last ballet, The Judas Tree (1992) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
McFadyen was elected to The Royal Academy of Arts in 2012 and in 2019 was coordinator of that year’s Summer Exhibition.
In 2020 and 2021, a number of exhibitions were held to celebrate McFadyen’s 70th birthday, including Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures (City Art Centre, Edinburgh), Jock McFadyen: Lost Boat Party (Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh) and Jock McFadyen Goes to The Lowry: A Retrospective (The Lowry, Salford). A new show at the Royal Academy, Jock McFadyen: Tourist without a Guidebook, previously postponed due to Covid-19, runs from 5 February to 10 April 2022.
McFadyen’s work is held in 40 public museum collections including Tate, the National Gallery, the V&A, the British Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art as well as many corporate and private collections in the UK and abroad.
McFadyen lives and works in London, Edinburgh and France.
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
2022 The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021 The Lowry, Salford
2021 Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
2020 City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2017 Grey Gallery, London
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 -
Public collections
Amnesty International
Arts Council of Great Britain
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
BBC, London
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
British Council, London
British Museum, London
City of Edinburgh
Contemporary Art Society, London
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Glasgow Art Galleries
The Government Art Collection
The Guildhall, London
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
The Imperial War Museum, London
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Leicester Education Authority
Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow
Manchester City Art Gallery
Museum of London
National Gallery, London
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Scottish Arts Council
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Tate, London
Theatre Museum, London
University of Dundee
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Wolverhampton City Art Gallery
Worcester Art Gallery
Yale Center for British Art, New HavenCorporate collections include
Clifford Chance
Deutsche Bank
Fleming Collection
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Selected Publications
2022 Jock McFadyen: Tourist without a Guidebook, catalogue to accompany the solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2021 Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures, catalogue to accompany the solo exhibition at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2021 Jock McFadyen Goes to The Lowry, catalogue to accompany the solo exhibition at The Lowry, Salford
2021 Jock McFadyen: Lost Boat Party, catalogue to accompany the solo exhibition at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, in conjunction with The Scottish Gallery
2019 Jock McFadyen, monograph by Rowan Moore, published by Royal Academy of Arts
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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