Duncan Shanks

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Duncan Shanks (born 1937[1]) RSA, RSW, RGI,[2] is a Lanarkshire born painter best known for work made around his home in Carluke, Scotland.[3]

Biography[edit]

He studied at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s under David Donaldson and was awarded a post-diploma travel scholarship which took him to Italy for a year.[4] Upon his return to Scotland in 1961 he took up a teaching position at GSA, lecturing there part time until 1979. He tutored fellow Scottish John Lowrie Morrison.[5]

Duncan Shanks's first solo exhibition was hosted by Stirling University in 1974. Since then he has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions, represented by Roger Billcliffe Fine Art in Glasgow[6] and The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.[7] The Scottish Gallery has held 11 exhibitions with Duncan Shanks between 1981 and 2019. His most recent show, Transience, received a four star review from Duncan Macmillan in The Scotsman. He wrote "For Shanks, it is the restlessness, the constant change even in the most familiar things (the transience indeed as life flows by like the River Clyde past the bottom of his garden) that it has been his mission to try to convey."[8]

Shanks's work is also held in numerous public and private collections, including The University of St Andrews,[9] Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre[10] and the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation.[11] The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow holds a collection of over 100 sketchbooks.[12] Curator Anne Delau Beveridge explained their value to the collection when she wrote: "Duncan’s sketchbooks were never intended to be seen by others. As such they offer an uncensored insight into the artist’s working process, thoughts and aspirations. Ideas first explored in these sketchbooks were often subsequently developed in studio studies."[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Macmillan, Duncan (2000). Scottish Art, 1460-2000. Mainstream Pub. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-84018-255-2.
  2. ^ Smith, Bill; Skipwith, Selina (2003). A History of Scottish Art. Merrell. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-85894-183-7.
  3. ^ Dulau, Anne; Beveridge, Anne Dulau (2015). The Poetry of Place: Duncan Shanks's Sketchbooks and the Upper Clyde. Freight Books. ISBN 978-1-910449-14-1.
  4. ^ Halsby, Julian; Harris, Paul (2001). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present. Canongate. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84195-150-8.
  5. ^ "Galleries: Scope of Jolomo's work surprises and delights our critic". HeraldScotland. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Duncan Shanks, Duncan Shanks Scottish Artist, Duncan shanks Glasgow artist | Billcliffe Gallery".
  7. ^ "Duncan Shanks | Artists at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh". The Scottish Gallery.
  8. ^ "Art reviews: Bridget Riley at the Royal Scottish Academy | Duncan Shanks at the Scottish Gallery". www.scotsman.com. 26 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Crossford or Orchard, Hazy Morning". collections.st-andrews.ac.uk.
  10. ^ "Shanks, Duncan | Arts Council Collection". artscouncilcollection.org.uk.
  11. ^ "Search the Collection | Collection | Fleming collection". flemingcollection.com.
  12. ^ "University of Glasgow - The Hunterian - Collections - Collection Summaries - Art - Duncan Shanks". www.gla.ac.uk.
  13. ^ http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sgall-assets/pdf/TSG_Duncan_Shanks_Works_on_Paper_FINAL.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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