Alan Bond

Alan Bond works and lives in Edinburgh. He builds large, architectural installations that invite audience participation and makes smaller architectural models and sculptures based on architectural fragments. Constructed from found materials, he chooses remnants, colours and textures that evoke history and association The mixed materials work with each other, contributing to the aesthetic of the work.

His works on paper fall between painting and drawing. They are based on architectural themes or objects seen in the landscape. In these observed spaces, he looks for unusual qualities or anomalies which allow for re-interpretation, re-ordered perspectives and the opportunity to comment and develop new ideas.

Outcomes may be ironic, funny, absurdist, or pay homage to the architects and constructors that have influenced him.

CV - exhibitions

2025 The Thread That Pulls -VAS ,National Gallery of Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh

2024 Now and Then-Part 2 Visual Arts Scotland , Dalkeith Palace, Midlothian

2024 Milestones. Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay

2024 Now and Then Part 1, Visual Arts Scotland, National Gallery of Scotland,

2023/4 Scottish Landscape Awards, Shortlist, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh

2023 Connect and Grow, Cass Gallery, Glasgow

2023 VAS West,The Briggait, Glasgow

2022 130years,Society of Scottish Artists Open,RSA, Edinburgh

2019/20 Alight SSA/VAS Open

2018 Together, Visual Arts Scotland and Scottish Society of Artists

2017 Made Up, Glasgow Arts Club

2017 Works on Paper, Glasgow Arts Club (solo show)

2017 SSA Open, Glasgow Arts Club Prizewinner, Scottish National Gallery/RSA

2016 Exquisite Corpse, St Andrews Museum, Scotland

2016 SSA Open, Scottish National Gallery/RSA, Edinburgh

2016 Corsham 52, AD44 Artspace, Bath

2015 Hangar, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire (solo show)

2015 Empire, Wall Projects, Montrose (Co-Curated with Gayle Nelson)

2015 Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh

2015 Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, USA

2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize,Shortlisted, London and tour

2014 Kino, A cinema for artists films, curated Pryle Behrman, SSA Open

2014 Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh

2013 SSA Open,Scottish National Gallery/RSA, Edinburgh

2012 Drawn to Nature, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire

2012 SSA Open, Deloitte Prizewinner National Gallery of Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh

2011 If on a Winters Night… August Art, London

2011 White Horses and Hill Figures,Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes

2010 Dislocation, August Art, London

2010 Tin Sheds & White Horses, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire, (solo show).

2010 London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery

2010 Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm Curated and Participated

2009 Pantheon Rotor, Shunt, London Bridge

2009 London Art Fair, Art Projects, Seven Seven

2008 Vernacular, Seven Seven, London. (solo show )

2008 Becks Art Fusions, Contemporary Art Society, Manchester

2006 No Ship, curated by Dave Farnham, Seven Seven,London

2006 The Stars down to Earth, The Nunnery, London, curated by Andrew Hunt

2006 Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Museum ,Maribor Slovenia

2006 Nocturne, Rabley Gallery Wiltshire

2005 Artvaults, Southampton (Curated and exhibited)

2005 Fold Up the Sky, AKA, Rome (Curated and Exhibited)

2004 Defying Definition, Rabley Gallery Wiltshire

2004 Art On Paper, Royal College of Art. London

2003 Virtue Art, London (Solo show)

2003 Oh Vienna! Soho In Ottakring, Vienna (Curated and exhibited)

2003 Mirror II Nature, Mile End Art Pavilion, London. (Curated and exhibited)

1998 Trace Elements, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery

1998 Bianco and Nero, Catanzaro, Italy

Collections

Bath Spa University-Oxford University, Exeter College,- Arts Council (Southern Arts)-Arts Council (South West Arts)-Devon County Council-Somerset County Counci-Dedalo Arte, Italy-Pinocoteca di Stilo, Italy-Rabley Drawing Archive -NHS Scotland-Enterprise IG Chester-Jones Design-Charles Hill-Henry Ford II, and many private collections