Patsy McArthur studied painting in Aberdeen at Gray's School of Art in the late 90s and gained a Masters in European Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art Barcelona program in 2001.

Since then she has lived and worked in Barcelona, Berlin and Sydney and has undertaken residencies in NYC, Italy and Shanghai.

She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and abroad, recently exhibiting at Context fair during Art Miami, and has held recent solo shows with Thompsons Gallery in London and Le Salon Vert in Geneva.

She was a shortlisted finalist of the inaugural Castlegate Prize in 2021 and, in 2022, she was selected for both the RSA Annual and the SSA Annual shows at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

“I make drawings and paintings which study space, light and movement and explore themes of escapism.

I’m interested in the fragmented and fleeting nature of experience; the interplay between submission and will; the moving and fixed and the figure and its environment in a constantly changing world.

Often those moments I’m looking to capture are those where we’re lost; in movement, in music, in a shard of light, in ourselves”.

EDUCATION

2000 – 2001 Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, Spain – MA European Fine Art

1994 – 1998 Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen – BA(Hons) Fine Art

EXHIBITIONS

2022

• The Scottish Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, Harpenden

• Society of Women Artists 161st Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

• Finding The Wonder, Tatha Gallery, Fife, Scotland

• Autumn Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London

• SSA 130th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

2021

• Flux, Solo Show of New Drawings, Thompsons Gallery, London

• Context, Art Miami, USA represented by Decorazon Gallery

• Castlegate Prize Finalists Exhibition, Castlegate Gallery, Cumbria, UK

2020

• Greyscale, Group drawing exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London

• AAF NYC, Decorazon Gallery, USA

• Pool Party Group Exhibition, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

• Rhythm and Movement – Solo Show, Turner Barnes Gallery, Essex

2019

• Gallery Artists Mixed Exhibition, Decorazon Gallery, Terminal Warehouse, New York

• Summer, Autumn and Winter Exhibitions, Cameron Contemporary, Hove

2018

• Solo Show, Momentum, Le Salon Vert, Geneva

• Reveal Art Fair, Saratoga Springs, New York represented by Decorazon Gallery

• London Art Fair, represented by Decorazon Gallery

• 2017

• Art Palm Springs, represented by Decorazon Gallery

• Stillness in Motion – Patsy McArthur and Susan Leyland, Osborne Studio Gallery, London

• London Art Fair, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

• AAF New York, Stockholm and London, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

  2016

• Patsy McArthur and Rebecca McGlinn, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

• Asia Contemporary, Hong Kong, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

• AAF New York, London, Stockholm represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

  2015

• Otherworld, Solo Exhibition of New Work, The Coningsby Gallery, Fitzrovia, London

  2014

• Patsy McArthur and Ian Hodgson, Naked Eye Gallery, Hove

• Chelsea Art Fair, represented by Cameron Contemporary, Hove

• Works on Paper Fair, London Science Museum, represented by Lilford Gallery, Canterbury

  2013

• SWAB International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain represented by Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  2011

• Women’s Lines, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China

• Figuratively Speaking, Blackheath Gallery, London

• SWAB International Art Fair represented by Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

• Paisley Art Institution Annual Exhibition, Paisley Museum, Scotland

• Visual Arts Scotland Selected Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

  2010

• Patsy McArthur and Dylan Lisle, Union Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Solo Exhibition of New Work, Flying Colours Gallery, Chelsea, London

  2009

• International Residency Program Exhibition, NY Studio Gallery, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York

• El Mur, International Public Art Projection, Lleida, Spain

• The Figure: Figurative Group Exhibition, Blackheath Gallery, London

• New Faces Revisited, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  2008

• British Art Fair 20-21, Islington, London represented by Flying Colours Gallery, London

• Art London, Chelsea, London represented by Flying Colours Gallery, London

• Liquid Light: Underwater Aesthetics, Sesame Gallery, Islington, London – Patsy McArthur, Sarah Harvey, Oliver Wilson and Kim Yeon

Work in Collections

• The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland

• The Walter Scott Collection, Edinburgh, Scotland

• The Malcolm Group, Scotland

• The Elphinstone Group, Glasgow, Scotland

• The Scarlet Hotel, Cornwall, England

• Private Collections in the UK, France, Holland, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Italy, Spain and the US.