Rose Strang SSA

CV/ BIOG/ PRESS/ EXHIBITION HISTORY

Born and currently living in Edinburgh, Rose has exhibited throughout the UK at the Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre Edinburgh, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Morningside Gallery Edinburgh, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh, Resipole Gallery Scotland, Kilmorack Gallery Inverness-Shire, Limetree Gallery Bristol, The Demarco European Art Foundation, Corte Real Gallery Portugal and Gallery One Berlin. In 2018 she became a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and in 2020 she was commissioned by Folio Society London to illustrate their 2021 publication of The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd.

BIO

Living and working in Edinburgh.

2001 – Post Graduate Diploma, Museum and Gallery Studies, St Andrews University.

1997 – BA (HONS) Fine Art and Related Arts. Chichester University.

1989 – NC in Art and Design, Telford College, Edinburgh

2018 – Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists.

2010 – Cultural Leadership Training, London School of Design.

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 The Sunday Post.‘The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else’ – Nan Shepherd (1893-1981). Review of the Folio Society illustrated edition of Nan Shepherd’s Living Mountain, by Alice Hinds. October 2021

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.

PAST EXHIBITIONS.

2026

Life and How to Live it. Graystone Gallery. 15th May to 13th June.

Anew. Limetree Gallery, Bristol. Launches 12th February

2025

The Living Mountain. Exhibition and artist’s talk. Braemar Literary Festival organised by Art Farm on behalf of Hauser and Wirth in association with the Queen’s Reading Room. September 27 and 28th.

Spring Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

Edinburgh Festival Exhibition. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh.

Open up a World of Beauty. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh. 14th November to 18th January

2024

Winter Exhibition, Fidra Fine Art Gallery, Scotland.

Autumn Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery

20th Anniversary Exhibition. The Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland. Launching Sunday 30th June.

Summer Exhibition. The Heriot Gallery, Edinburgh. Summer Exhibition

2023

The Living Mountain: Dreaming a Response. Solo exhibition. February/March. The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton Close, Edinburgh.

Borrowed Land Kilmorack Gallery

Edinburgh Art Fair. Edinburgh Corn Exchange.

Christmas Exhibition. Limetree Gallery

Winter Show. Heriot Gallery. Dundas Street, Edinburgh.

Aberdeen Art Fair Limetree Gallery

SSA at the Caledonia Club London

Summer Exhibition Limetree Gallery

RSA Annual Exhibition (online)

2022

From the Mountains to the Sea. Limetree Gallery

Coast. Jim Wright and Rose Strang. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Ardnamurchan.

2021

Affordable Art Fair, Online. Limetree Gallery

Commissioned by The Folio Society London to create a series of nine paintings for their publication of The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd.

2020

A Subtle Touch. Rose Strang, Anna King and Mhairi McGregor. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

Winter Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Bristol

Autumn Exhibition. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland

Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford

2019

Ardban. Limetree Gallery An Ealdhain, Fortwilliam, Scotland

The Planets. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Demarco Galleries, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Paintings by Rose Strang. Talk by Dr Michael Ward (author of Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis). 

Winter Miniatures. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh.

SSA Open. Society of Scottish Artists, RSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Christmas Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol

Small Works. Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh

2018

Texture. Rose Strang,  Vivienne Williams, RCA, Henry Jabour, Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

SSA+VAS Open Exhibition. Society of Scottish Artists. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

 Spring Exhibition. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland

First Look. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford

The Winter Show. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland

 Edinburgh Art Fair. Limetree Gallery. Corn Exchange, Edinburgh.

 Christmas Show. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.

2017

Winter Series: Music and Image. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh

Isle of Harris. Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh

Christmas Show. Artpistol Gallery, Glasgow.

Edinburgh Art Fair. Corn Exchange. Lime Tree Gallery.

A Sense of Place. Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol

2016

 Harbours. Freespace Gallery, Edinburgh.

Snowscapes. Gayfield Creative Spaces, Edinburgh.

Borders. Whitespace Gallery.

Sea and Sky. Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh.

RSA Open. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2015

Spring Show. Flaubert Gallery, Edinburgh

2014

WEST: The west coast and beyond. Gallery Ten, Edinburgh

2013

Winter Exhibition. Sutton Gallery, Dundas Street Edinburgh. Winter Exhibition

2012

On a Small Scale. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2007 TO 2013. Public artist/Curator for NHS: University Hospital North Staffordshire. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Leverndale Hospital, NHS Glasgow and Greater Clyde. Ninewells Hospital, NHS Tayside.

2001 to 2006

Artist/Co-curator on Transitstation, Edinburgh and Berlin

2000

70/2000 The Road to Meikle Seggie. City Art Centre Edinburgh.