Rachel C Sutherland
b 1961
1979-80 L'Accademia di Belle Arte, Dip History of Art, Italian and Drawing, Perugia, Italy
1981-85 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design B.A.
1987-88 Hampstead School of Art, Diploma in Decorative Painting
1987-89 Byam Shaw School of Art, Life Drawing, London
1991-93 University of Edinburgh M.L.A. Masters degree in Landscape Architecture
2014-16 Academy Regio Tienen, Belgium, Kunst en Schilderijen
Awards and Scholarships
1971 Ricky de Marco Art Prize
1972 Daily Mirror Art Prize
1979 Cheyne Art Prize The Edinburgh Academy
1982 British Council Scholarship to Budapest Summer School of Architecture, Hungary
1992 Edinburgh University Small Projects Grant to study Design of Urban Spaces in Berlin
1994 and 1995 The Geoffrey Bawa Trust Scholarship to study in The Gardens of Brief and
Lunuganga, Sri Lanka
2010 - present
Exhibitions
Solo
1994 Brief Garden Drawings
1995 Gallery 706, Columbo
1996 IoTA Gallery Hong Hong
1997 Banon Resorts, India
2003 Parra Studios, Goa
2014 Kunst Aperatief, Tienen, Belgium
2015 'The Four Seasons' Zoutleeuw Historische Stadhuis
2017 Gallery Topolino Tienen
Group
2014 In the Garden With Friends' at The Barn in the Bield, Perthshire, Scotland
2015 Open Studio Zoutleeuw, Belgium
2015 Scottish Society of Architect Artists at The Glasgow Art Club
2016 SSAA The Edinburgh Arts Club
2016 Ligne et Couleur, Paris and Catania, Sicily.
2016 Vital Art SSAA at The Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Scotland
2017 SSAA at the RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
2017 In The Garden With Friends at The Barn in the Bield, Tibbermore, Perthshire, Scotland
PUBLICATIONS
Work included in the following:
'Albion' Magazine, Institute of Landscape Architects UK 1994
'Serendib' Air Lanka Magazine Vol 15 No. 1 1996
'Brick' Michael Ondaatje's Literary Quarterly Review 1996
'Bawa: The Sri Lankan Gardens' by David Robson and Domonic Sansoni (Thames and Hudson) 2008
ISBN 978-0-500-51446-7
Ligne et Couleur SSAA Magazine 2017
The Whiteadder Arts Project 2019
Work Experience
1985 - 1988 : Smallbone of Devizes - Decorative painter
1988 - 1990 : Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre, Devine Design - Scenic artist
1990 - 1991 : Hugh Martin Partnership Architects and Town Planning Consultants - Design Assistant
1993 - 1995 : Brief Garden, Sri Lanka - Artist in Residence
1995 - 1997 : Universities of Colombo and Hong Kong - Visiting Lecturer
1997 - 2000 : Indian Hymalayas - Banon Resorts, Manali, 12 Abstract Painting Commissions and set up my studio and a community radio station.
2000 - 2007 : South India - travels in my sketchbook.
2007 - 2018 : Belgium - Studio painter and fruit picker.
2018 - now : Borders College, Rural Skills, Environment and Conservation - Supply Lecturer
and Lammermuir Studio - Painter
2010 - present