Born 7th July 1986 currently living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Contact:

web-site: www.alexallan.co.uk

Email: aallan@mail.com

Phone: (Mobile) 07522 796 313 (Home) 0131 539 6769

Relevant Academic Qualifications:

• MFA Sculpture – Edinburgh College of Art – 2009-11 – Result Pending
• BA (Hons) Sculpture – Edinburgh College of Art – 2005-09 - First Class
• Advanced Higher Art & Design – Tynecastle High School – 2003-04

Interests:

• Walking and exploring
• Industrial ruins/relics/memory
• Mankind’s effect on the landscape
• The city as a vascular system

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• Square Beard, Brunswick St, Leith, Edinburgh, 22nd – 26th April 2010
• Quote Marks, Arts Complex, Edinburgh, 27th – 7th May 2010
• RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 3rd – 21st April 2010
• Hot Box, Lauriston Castle Glasshouse, Edinburgh, August 2009
• Soft Spot, The Henderson Gallery, 4 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, June 2009
• Degree Show, ECA, June 2009
• Blood Feathers, 364 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, February 2009
• Keep Calm and Carry On, 39 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, November 2008
• Environmental Nightmares, Wee Red Lounge, ECA, November 2008
• Glass Ceiling, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Leith, Edinburgh, May 2008
• Copy, Paste, Cut, ECA, April 2008
• PSABC, Wee Red Lounge, ECA, February 2008
• No Circumstances, ECA Sculpture Court, February 2008
• Art in the Dark, Wee Red Bar, ECA, December 2007
• The Heavens and the Earth, ECA, November 2007
• Reasonably Sized Ideas, ECA, October 2007
• In The Beginning, ECA, October 2007
• Ukranium, Andrew Grant Gallery, ECA, March 2007
• Simmer Down, Sculpture Court, ECA, February 2007

Solo Exhibitions:

• Way Out, Prestongrange, East Lothian, November 2010
• Guttered, St John’s Cathedral, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, August 2009
• The Sound of Water and the Sound of Mills, Colinton Dell, Edinburgh, October 2008

Relevant Experience and Projects:

Past:

• Assistant to Kevin Harman during his piece, Love Thy Neighbour, ECA, June 2008

Present:

• White Marble, Collaborative project with Liam Richardson, Ongoing

Future:

• Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Pavilion Residency, Dates to be confirmed

Press:

• The Independent, Celebrating Future Art Stars, 12th January 2010
• Edinburgh Evening News, Sculptor enjoys a flood of interest in Drain Artwork, 19th August 2009
• Edinburgh Evening News, Inter@ctive, 9th May 2009
• Edinburgh Evening News, Student Alex sculpts out rare artwork for riverbank visitors, 25th May 2009
• The Metro, Unusual, to a degree…, 11th June 2009
• The List, Best in Show, 11-25th June 2009
• STV News (East), Kiln, Driftwood I featured on 6 o’clock news, 12th June 2009
• The Skinny, Battle of the Central Belt Degree Shows, Issue 46, July 2009

Awards & Achievements:

• Short-listed for Catlin Art Prize 2010
• Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Graduate Award 2010
• Hope Scott Trust Postgraduate Award 2010
• PSAS Award, 2009
• Andrew Grant Bequest, 2009
• Artist Book held in private collection in Edinburgh College of Art library.