Practice
Alan Bond works and lives in Edinburgh. He builds large, architectural installations and smaller architectural models that invite audience participation and also makes smaller sculptures exploring environmental and historical themes. 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 suggest new ideas about them. Outcomes may be rational, ironic, funny,or absurdist. They pay homage to the architects and constructors that have influenced him.
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, 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 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, SSA Open, Scottish National Gallery, Cinema for Artists Films curated Pryle Behrman
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 2
009 Pantheon Rotor, Shunt, London Bridge 2009 London Art Fair, Art Projects, Seven Seven (curated)
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
1989, National Gallery of Zimbabwe (solo show)
Collections
Bath Spa University, Oxford University, Exeter College, Arts Council (Southern Arts), Arts Council (South West Arts), Devon County Council, Somerset County Council, 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
Seven Seven Contemporary Art
Before moving to Scotland, I was based in London. There I founded Seven Seven Contemporary Art. The gallery had strong international links working with public museums and private galleries in Europe. We joined Trieste Contemporanea, creators of Continental Breakfast, a consortium of art organisations and museums in Central Eastern Europe and the Baltic states. This resulted in exchanges and exhibiting opportunities in the National gallery of Slovenia, and participation at the Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators at the Venice Biennale in 2006.
The gallery collaborated with Supermarket,at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm and arranged several exchanges with AKA gallery in Rome. Seven Seven participated in Zoo Art Fair in 2005
Creative Training
I worked with major branding companies, consulting on major contracts and developing creative training workshops for Landor Associates, Enterprise IG, Futurebrand, and Smith & Weston. Set in inspiring European venues and separated from their computers, these team building events allowed the participants to focus on engagement with the location, use tactile materials and engage in Fine Art critical evaluation.
Set Design and Production From my studio in Bow Arts I formed a team of skilled artists to provide set design and production for major London venues. These included The Royal Albert Hall, Grosvenor House Events and Lewisham Theatre during the late 1990s. Following visits to Malawi I exhibited at the Africa Centre, London and supported by the British Council,was subsequently invited to provide workshops for township students in Zimbabwe. These screenprinting workshops resulted in European scholarships for some students and new career paths for others.
My Africa experiences led me to WOMAD. Here from 1992 -93 I designed, produced and installed site and stage decoration for festivals world wide.
Professional Memberships
I am a professional member of Axis, Visual Arts Scotland and the Scottish Society of Artists where I was an elected and a co-opted council member. I was later employed as a mentor for mid-career artists in a collaboration between Creative Scotland and the SSA .Reviews and CreditsTo be assembled
Arts schools , fellowship, and art school teaching ?