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

Royal Academician

Painter

Born: 1950 in Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 24 May 2012

Gender: Male

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