Barbara Rae DBE RA FRSE
Barbara Rae is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts. She studied painting at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1961, where she received a travel scholarship to France and Spain in 1966 which deeply influenced her work. She went on to lecture at Aberdeen College of Education from 1972 to 1974 and at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1996.
Rae continued to travel, visiting Spain, Ireland, France and the United States and producing a body of work deeply intertwined with these locations. In 2002, Rae had a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo. The North House Gallery exhibited Barbara Rae Ten Years’ Printmaking in 2004. In the same year she also had a solo show at Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast. In 2006, another exhibition of monotypes and colour etchings was held in County Mayo.
Among Rae’s many awards are Major Scottish Arts Council Awards (1975, 1981), Guthrie Medal, Royal Scottish Academy (1977), Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Travel Award (1983) Calouste Gulbenkian Printmaking Award (1983) and Hunting Group Prizewinner (1990).
Rae continued to travel, visiting Spain, Ireland, France and the United States and producing a body of work deeply intertwined with these locations. In 2002, Rae had a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo. The North House Gallery exhibited Barbara Rae Ten Years’ Printmaking in 2004. In the same year she also had a solo show at Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast. In 2006, another exhibition of monotypes and colour etchings was held in County Mayo.
Among Rae’s many awards are Major Scottish Arts Council Awards (1975, 1981), Guthrie Medal, Royal Scottish Academy (1977), Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Travel Award (1983) Calouste Gulbenkian Printmaking Award (1983) and Hunting Group Prizewinner (1990).
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