Curriculum Vitae

RACHEL BRIDE ASHTON (b. 1976, UK)

Education

2019 – 2022, First Class BA (Hons), Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee

2018 – 2019, NC Music, North East Scotland College, Aberdeen

1993 – 1994, NC Art and Design, Glasgow College of Building and printing, Glasgow

Residencies

June 2023, Residency with Freelands Foundation at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall (upcoming)

2023, Group Residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden (upcoming)

April 2017 – May 2018, Walking Without Walls, Digital Residency with May Murad, Deveron Projects, Huntly

Prizes

  • 2022, Dundee Contemporary Art (DCA) Prize
  • 2022, Generator Projects Prize
  • 2022, James Guthrie Orchar Prize
  • 2022, Freelands Painting Prize

Publications

  • 2023, Invisible and Deviant Mothers: Childbirth in Visual Culture, Boom Publications
  • 2003, Push: Childbirth in Global Screen Culture, Trauma or Transgression – Reframing Onscreen Childbirth, Chapter in edited collection, Manchester Metropolitan University (upcoming)
  • 2015, illustrated The Story of Mouse – Collaborative book publication, Stickman Press

 

Talks and Memberships and Events

  • 2021, DJCAD’s IN-GEAR Conference for Woman’s History Month, presented paper – ‘Patriarchal Appropriation and Medicalisation of Childbirth in Contemporary Visual Art and Media Culture’
  • 2021, Founding Member of new research forum for Intersectional Gender Equality in the Arts Research (IN-GEAR)
  • 2021, founding members of Original Copy Collective
  • 2019, Church Dundee, Performed in Fleeting Motions – A Show Case of Performance Art
  • 2019, Album Release and Launch ‘Repair’, Huntly Library
  • 2019, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Lunchtime Talks at the Maritime Museum, Aberdeen – Presented ‘A Transcultural Exchange’
  • 2018, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Arts Festival – Art, Borders and Migration – presented ‘Walking Without Walls’
  • 2018, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria – Global Academy II, Examples of Transcultural Exchange – Presented ‘Walking Without Walls’ as a Pecha Kucha
  • 2018, ‘Walking Without Walls’, Tate Modern, London – Film included in Tate Exchange Programme Presented by Cornerstone Arts
  • 2018, Pathmakers’ Gathering Symposium, Deveron Projects, Huntly – Presented ‘Walking Without Walls’
  • 2015, Managed ‘The Art Room’,Huntly
  • 2014, Featured on Sky TVs ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’
  • 2002 – 2007, Founded and directed Northern Eye Gallery, Ceres, Fife
  • 2002 – 2018, Led workshops, classes, walks and private tutored in oil painting, intuitive painting, abstract painting, egg tempera, sketchbooking, natural paint-making, clay oven and rocket stove building, healing weeds, plant journaling and scything
  • 1997 – 2019, Home-birthed and home-educated two children

 

Collections

The Town Collection, Huntly

ConocoPhillips, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen

Various private collections in the UK, Bahamas and United States

Solo Exhibitions

2023, Wasps, Inverness Creative Academy (upcoming)

2023, Federation Gallery, Dundee (upcoming)

2022, The Monstrous Feminine, DJCAD, Dundee

2022, Dynamo, Dundee

2018, Deveron Projects, Huntly – Walking Without Walls

2015, The Art Room, Huntly

2015, The Gallery, Elgin Library, Elgin – Repair

2015, 2014 NEOS, The Bothy, Knock

2013, NEOS The Old Shop, Huntly

2013, Larks Gallery, Ballater

2011, Touched by Scotland, Insch

1999, 2013, Still Life Studio, Aberlour

2005, 2006, The Blue Door Gallery, Pittenweem

2002, 2004, 2006, Northern Eye Gallery, Ceres

2000, Insomnia, Glasgow – Postnatal Impression

Duo Exhibitions

2018, 2017, The Ethical Gift Shop, Huntly

2017, 2015, Forgue Church, Forgue

2007, Still Life, Aberlour

1996, Barnyard Studios and Gallery, Garmouth – Mojo

Group Exhibitions

2022, Net Gallery, London – Freelands Painting Prize

2022, Glasgow Society East – Old Contemporaries

2022, Botanic Gardens, Dundee – To Be Nodal

2022, Mathew Building, Dundee

2022, The Federation, KRG & DJCAD collaborative exhibition, Dundee – Out in the Open

2022, The Federation – KRG – Dundee

2022, Level 4, DUSA, Dundee – Femfest

2020-2023, Ron Lawson Gallery, Perth Road, Dundee

2021, Bradshaw Gallery, Dundee – DJCAD Responds – End Violence Against Women Now

2020, Travelling Exhibition, Art school exchange – Cabin Baggage

2020, DJCAD Mathew Gallery, Dundee – Then and Now Exhibition

2020-2023, Ron Lawson Gallery, Dundee

2020, DJCAD, Dundee – DJCAD Foyer Exhibition

2019, Mathew Building Upper and Lower Foyer, DJCAD, Dundee – Rubatosis

2019, DJCAD Open Days CAP Second Year Students Exhibition

2019, The Cooper Gallery, Dundee – Studio Jamming

2019, The Artist’s Studio, Aberlour

2019, RBS Building, Huntly – Five Huntly Artists

2019, The Blue Roof Gallery, Oyne

2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, Larks Gallery, Ballater

2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, Imagine at 27, Banff

2016, 2015, The Wee Gallery, Cullen

2016, 2014, Archies Art, The Wood Group, Aberdeen

2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, The Holburn Gallery, Aberdeen

2015, Teasel and Tweed, Aberdeen

2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, The Elgin Gallery, Elgin

2016, 2014, 2012, 2009, Art Aboyne, Aboyne

2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2005, 2004, 2003, Still Life, Aberlour

2011, 2004, 2000, 1999, Just Art, Fochabers

2009, 2008, Coast Festival, Macduff

2007, Mcgregor Fine Art, Glasgow

2007, 2005, Carby Art, Aberdeen

2004, Eduardo Allessandros, Broughty Ferry

2004, The Queens Gallery, Dundee

2004, Gallery Nomansland, Aberlour

2004, 2003, 2002, Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxford

2002, ConocoPhillips, Rubislaw House, Aberdeen

2002, Indigo for Contemporary Art, St Andrews

2002, 2000, Frames Contemporary Gallery, Perth

2002, The Old Course Hotel, St Andrews

2001, Nickleson Gallery, Scone

2000, The Fotheringham Gallery, Bridge of Allan

2000, The Glasgow Room, Princes Square

2000, The Gallery, Cupar

2000, The Weem, Pittenweem

1999, Logie Steading, Forres