ROSE STRANG
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2018 Elected Professional Member, Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
EDUCATION
2001 Postgraduate Diploma, Museum and Gallery Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland
1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art and Related Arts, University of Chichester, England
1993 National Certificate in Art and Design, Telford College, Edinburgh, Scotland
1990 National Certificate in Theatre Studies and Performance, Stevenson College, Edinburgh, Scotland
OTHER TRAINING
2010 Cultural Leadership Course, London School of Design, England
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Traces, Boardwalk Beach Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. Exhibition and film, hosted by Richard Demarco CBE
2025 The Living Mountain, Braemar Literary Festival, Braemar, Scotland. Organised by Art Farm for Hauser & Wirth in association with The Queen’s Reading Room. With artist’s talk
2023 The Living Mountain: Dreaming a Response, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
2019 The Planets: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Demarco Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ardban, Limetree Gallery An Ealdhain, Fort William, Scotland
2016 Damascus Rose, Lyne Street Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland
TWO- AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Coast, with Jim Wright. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
2020 A Subtle Touch, with Anna King and Mhairi McGregor. Limetree Gallery, Bristol, England
2018 Texture, with Vivienne Williams RCA and Henry Jabour. Limetree Gallery, Bristol, England
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Festival Exhibition, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Facing West, Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
Life and How to Live It, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Anew, Limetree Gallery, Bristol, England
2025 Open Up a World of Beauty, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2024 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
2023 Borrowed Land: Reinventing Scottish Landscape, Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Scotland
RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
SSA at the Caledonian Club, Society of Scottish Artists, London, England
2022 From the Mountains to the Sea, Limetree Gallery, Bristol, England
2019 SSA Open, Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Small Works, Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018 SSA + VAS Open Exhibition, Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
This Guy’s Not for Burning, Traquair House, Innerleithen, Scotland. Invited by Richard Demarco CBE
First Look, Limetree Gallery, Long Melford, England
2017 A Sense of Place, Limetree Gallery, Bristol, England
2016 RSA Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sea and Sky, Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 WEST: The West Coast and Beyond, Gallery Ten, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012 On a Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Totalkunst Multimedia Show, Gallery One, Berlin, Germany
2004 Canalscapes of Scotland, Demarco European Art Foundation in association with British Waterways, Edinburgh Quay, Edinburgh, Scotland
2000–01 70/2000, marking Richard Demarco’s seventieth year. City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Surrey, England; Richard Hamilton Gallery, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England; Ruskin Museum, Coniston, England; Glebe Gallery, County Donegal, Ireland; M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
COMMISSIONS
2020 The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. The Folio Society, London, England. Series of paintings for the 2021 illustrated edition; introduction by Robert Macfarlane
CURATORIAL AND PUBLIC ART
2007–13 Public artist and curator, NHS commissions: University Hospital North Staffordshire; Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Leverndale Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; Ninewells Hospital, NHS Tayside
2001–06 Artist and co-curator, Transitstation, Edinburgh, Scotland and Berlin, Germany
RESIDENCIES
2018 Lagandorain House, Isle of Iona, Scotland. Two-week residency at the invitation of John McClean
SELECTED WRITINGS
2017 ‘Khadija Saye.’ Bella Caledonia, June 2017
‘Roses of the World.’ Bella Caledonia, March 2017
COLLECTIONS
Demarco Archives, Edinburgh, Scotland
Private collections in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States
PRESS
2023. The Times ‘Rose Strang – Symphony of Subtle Essences and Lingering Impressions’
2023. Art Mag. Dreaming the Painted Word. Rose Strang responds to Nan Shepherd at the Scottish Poetry Library
2023 The National Nan Shepherd: Exhibition to mark 130th birthday of environmentalist
2022 The National Scottish Gaelic Gem
2022 Art Mag. Life on the Edge at Resipole Studios
2015 The Herald. ‘Artist gives back to landscapes that inspired her work’. By Susan Swarbrick, November 2015.
