Biographical
Born –1981 Inverness, Scotland
Email – paul.westcombe@googlemail.com
website – www.paulwestcombe.com
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/paul_westcombe.html
www.paulwestcombe.blogspot.co.uk
EDUCATION
2005–2007 MA Royal College of Art (Painting)
1999–2003 BA (Hons) Fine Art– Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
EXHIBITIONS
2013
– Art Exchange Gallery – (Im)material Labour (group show)
– The Saatchi Gallery – ‘paper’ (group show)
– ‘The Lindt Big Egg Hunt’ – ‘Action for Children’, touring exhibition –
(London (Covent Garden), Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow).
– Creekside open 2013 (selected by Paul Noble), A.P.T Gallery (Group show)
2012
– Whitechaple Gallery ‘The London Open’ ( group show)
– Whitechaple Gallery, commission limited edition artworks
– The Royal Scottish Academy annual 186 (group show)
– Craft , Pertwee Anderson & Gold ( group show)
2011
– Limousine Bull Artists Collective ‘Gulsh’
– Transition Gallery – ‘Gilding the Lily’ (Group show)
– Danielle Arnaud Gallery (Group Show) – ‘Condensation’
– London Art Fair Monika Bobinska Gallery, London.
2010
– The Liverpool biennial – The Cooperative Space – ( Solo project) “The Symbols Pursue Me”
– Standing on the Frontier (Group Show) Madam Lillies, London
– Heart Of Glass – 20 Hoxton Gallery (group show)
2009
– In Between The Lines :Recent British Drawings.(Group Show) Trinity Contemporaries
– Kunskog – (Group Show) Five hundred Dollars, London
– Mill– Monika Bobinska
– Jerwood Space Installation – Just food for the Midgies. (Solo Project).
– Quartair gallery ‘The Living swamp’ – Netherlands, The Hague (Group Show)
– Creekside open 2009 selected by Mark Wallinger
2008
– New Contemporaries (Group show)
– Art Auction Hospice – Shoreditch Church – London (Group show)
2007
– Jerwood Drawing prize, London (Group show)
– Mural Installation N.A.T.O uk – Brussels (Solo project)
– Nativity – Gallery 39, London (Group show)
– My Penguin – Gallery 39, London (Group show)
– Hunter's Moon, L’est Gallery , London (Group show)
– Westies Wet Weekend – Royal College of Art London (solo show)
– The Great Exhibition – Royal College of Art London (Group show)
2006
– Republic, L’est gallery – London (Group show)
– Spent, Three Colts Gallery London (Group show)
– Pleasure Yourself, Royal College of Art – London (Group show)
2005
– Sex is boring – Royal College of Art, Hockney Space.(solo show)
2003
– Royal Scottish Academy Schools Show , Edinburgh (Group show) Awards and Residencies
Awards
2012
– The Royal Scottish Academy
– William Littlejohn Award for Excellence and innovation in Water–based Media 2011– 2011
– HI–Arts funding art development award
2004
– The Royal Scottish Academy – John Kinross Travel Scholarship
– HI-Arts funding art development award
2004
– Scottish Arts Council Career development award
2003
– The Royal Scottish Academy Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal
Collections
– Saatchi Collection
– Royal College of Art
– Grays Art School
– Royal Scottish Academy
Professional Practice
– 2009 Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
– 2009 University of Coventry, Visiting Lecturer BA Fine Art
– 2007 University of Sunderland , Visiting Lecturer BA Fine Art
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