1937 Born Glasgow, Scotland.
1955-59 Glasgow School of Art.
1974-75 Taught at Brighton College of Art.
1979 Taught at Canterbury College of Art.
1984 Guest at Triangle Workshop, New York, USA.
Selected Exhibitions
Individual
1963 New Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.
1974 The Garage, London.
1986 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London.
1988 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London.
1990 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London.
1991 Josine Bokhoven Gallery, Amsterdam.
1992 McLaurin Trust Gallery, Ayr, Scotland.
1993 Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1993 Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London.
1994 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.
1994 Gracefield Gallery, Dumfries, Scotland.
1995 Josine Bokhoven Gallery, Amsterdam.
1997 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.
1998 Gallery Op Maat, Groningen, Netherlands.
2008 Poussin Gallery, London.
2012 Delfina, London.
2021 Here and Now. Waterhouse Dodd, London.
Group
1968 Preview at Camden Arts Centre, London.
1974 Choice Selection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh.
1974 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales.
1975-79 Annual Shows at Stockwell Depot, London.
1977 British Painting 1952-77, Royal Academy, London.
1977 Four Painters, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
1977 Whitechapel Open, London.
1977 “Certain Traditions” Touring Canada.
1980 Poole Arts Centre, Dorset.
1980 Hayward Annual, London.
1982 Summer Show, Serpentine Gallery, London
1984 Triangle Workshop, New York.
1986 Whitechapel Open, London.
1986 Triangle Show, Smiths Gallery, London.
1987 Whitechapel Open, London.
1987 Studio Forum, Acre Lane Studios, London.
1987 On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1988 Whitechapel Open, London.
1989 Celtic Vision, Bank of Ireland, Dublin.
1990 Riverside Open, London.
1990 Colour in Modern Painting, Stoke on Trent Museum.
1991 Studio Forum, Acre Lane Studios, London.
1992 Royal Academy, London.
1993 Scottish Painters, Flowers East, London.
1994 British Abstraction, Flowers East, London.
1995 The Living Room, London.
1996 The Harlech Biennale Wales.
1997 Works on Paper, Flowers East, London.
1999 Small is Beautiful, Flowers West, Los Angeles.
2001 British Abstraction, Flowers East, London.
2012 Mark of Beauty, Union Gallery, Edinburgh.
2015 Stockwell Depot, Greenwich University Galleries, London.
2021 Linden Hall Studio, Winter Group Show, Kent.
Mercer Gallery, Harrogate 2022.
2022 Celebration-British Abstract Painting. Mercer Gallery, Harrowgate.
2022 Overgrown Abstractions. The Place Downstairs, London.
2022 Brancaster Chronicles. Museum In The Park, Stroud.
Selected Bibliography
1974 Alan Gouk, Studio International.
1978 Muriel Wilson, Catalogue (Certain Traditions) Recent British and Canadian Art.
1980 John McLean, Arts Canada.
1982 Tim Hilton, The Observer.
1988 Tim Hilton, The Guardian.
1990 David Lillington, Time Out.
1991 Edward Lucie Smith, The Times.
1992 Bill Hare, Contemporary Painting in Scotland(book)
1993 W Gordon Smith, Scotland on Sunday.
1993 Mary Rose Beaumont, Catalogue.
1994 Sarah Kent, Time Out.
1997 Clement Greenberg, Catalogue, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
2008 Career Survey, Bill Hare.
2015 Stockwell Depot Book, Sam Cornish.
2019 Bill Hare, Scottish Artists In An Age Of Radical Change(book)