Solo Shows
1968 Irvine Arts Centre
1976 Scul?ture, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde
1977
Scul?ture, MacRoberts Arts Centre, University of Stirling
Scul?ture, McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock
1978
Scul?ture , Henderson Gallery
Scul?ture, Edinburgh Festival
1979
Scul?ture, The Workshop Gallery London
The Call of the Sea, Talbot Rice Centre, University of Edinburgh
1980
Counterbalance, The Stirling Gallery
Counterbalance, Henderson Gallery Edinburgh Festival
Counterbalance, Spectro Arts Centre Newcastle
1981
A way with the Birds, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde
A way with the Birds, Serpentine Gallery London (Summer Show)
1982 A Day Down a Goldmine, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
1983
Scul?ture, St Andrew’s Festival Fife,
Scul?ture in Motion, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1984
As Others See Us, Worcester Art Museum Massachutus USA
Excavations from a Mine, Crawford Arts Centre, University of St. Andrews
Excavations from a Mine, Artspace Aberdeen
Christmas Day Down a Goldmine, Watermans Art Centre Brentford London
1985
Friendship Paintings, (in collaboration with artist Jens Jenson) Goethe Institute Glasgow
Old Favourites, The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens, Glasgow
1986 Americana, Glasgow Arts Centre
1987
Americana, An Lanntair Stornoway Isle of Lewis
Americana, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
Old Favourites, Lyth Arts Centre Caithness
Paintings and Scul?ture at Sea, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
The Kleenex Sale, Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
1988
Scul?ture at Sea, Pittenweem Festival Fife
Scul?ture at Sea and Seven spires for Lewis
An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
1989
Seven Spires for Lewis
Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
The Paper Boat Exhibition, Pearce Institution Govan Glasgow
The Paper Boat Exhibition, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Paper Boat Installation and Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall London
1990 Paper Boat Installation and Exhibition, World Financial Center New York USA
1991 A Spire for Emily, Ash Gallery Edinburgh
1994 Blake’s Bike exhibition, Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
1994 Air and Stone, Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
1999 Retrospective, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
1999 Rock the Boat exhibition, Glasgow University Media Centre
1999 Bridges 1&2 (USA/Scottish/Irish), Engine Room Gallery Belfast
2001 Para Handy Re-visited once again & 7 Vital Sparks, Argyll & Bute venues
2005 The Cosmic Voyage, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde
2007 Exhibition, Hill House (National Trust, Charles Rennie Mackintosh) Helensburgh
Performances
1982 A Day Down a Goldmine, Third Eye Centre Glasgow (with Russell Hunter)
1984 Christmas Day Down a Goldmine, Watermans Arts Centre, London (with Bill Paterson)
1985 A Day Down a Goldmine, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh (Bill Paterson and Tony Gorman)
1986
A Day Down a Goldmine, ICA Theatre London (with Bill Paterson and Tony Gorman)
A Day Down a Goldmine, Glasgow Arts Centre (with Joe McDermott and Tony Gorman)
On Corrupting the Young, Lecture Performance, Glasgow School of Art
On Corrupting the Young, Lecture Performance, Smith Art Gallery and Museum Stirling
1987 ‘and I’ (Dance No.93 (b) 42’), Glasgow School of Art
1987
A Day Down a Goldmine, Third Eye Centre Glasgow(with Tony Gorman)
Vigourous Vespers, Lecture/Performance, Riverside Studios London
Middag-Dienst, Lecture/Performance, Viaams Cultureel Centrum Amsterdam
1988 Circus Gold (10 hour installation performance), Ufa-Fabrik Berlin
1988 The Paper Boat performances, Glasgow, London, New York, Antwerp
1989 The Paper Boat—A Patriotic Gesture, Tramway Glasgow Group Exhibition
1990 ‘Battering Fifty’ (from the Drunken Boat), Lecture/Performance St. Andrew’s College
1990
The Dumfries Mice, Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries
A Day Down a Goldmine, (with John Bett) Tramway Glasgow
1991 Life Cycle Art workshops (children’s event with Louise Wyllie)
1991 Robin mass auction, (with Louise Wyllie) Manchester
1999 Dance – mobilisation (with Louise Wyllie) Whitworth Art Gallery
2000 Temple Millennium(workshops with Louise Wyllie), Manchester
2007 Let there be Lecht, Highland Year of Celebration (children’s/schools event with Louise Wyllie)
Installations & Events
1981 (Edinburgh International Festival) Assist Joseph Beuys with Poorhouse Doors Installation, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (State Museum, Munchen Gladbach, West Germany)
1982 A Church for an Invented God, East Chatham NY USA
1983 A Temple of Fertility, East Chatham NY USA
1984 Excavating for a Mine, St. Andrew’s Fife
1985 The March of the Standing Stones, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Event
1986 The March of the Missing Tourists, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Event
1982—1990
Spires erected, East Chatham NY US, Various UK sites, Menorca, Rannoch Moor (Joseph Beuys Tribute 986/7/8/9), Kassel (West Germany), Amsterdam, Sarajevo, Berlin, Royalston Mass USA, Long Island and Manhattan, New York USA
1987 The Straw Locomotive TSWA-3D, Sculpture/Event Finnieston Crane, Glasgow
1987
The May-Day Parade, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Event
The Famous Grouse, Viaams Cultureel Centrum, De Braake, Grond, Amsterdam
1988
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Assist Mario Merz (Tavola installation), Glasgow Garden Festival
5 works including Arrivals and Sailings installation
The Berlin Burd Scul?ture, Berlin Wall at Reinickendorf
1989
The Peace Burd, Peace Festival Edinburgh
Charlie Chaplin Slept Here, Film House Edinburgh Festival
The Paper Boat, River Clyde Glasgow
The Paper Boat, River Thames, London
1989
The Glasgow Flourish, L’Europe des Createurs’ Exhibition, Grand Palais Paris, Museum of Transport Glasgow, Scottish National Museum Edinburgh
1990
The Dear Green Helicopter
Arts is Magic (children’s event)
The Straw Locomotive, Finnieston Crane Glasgow
The Paper Boat, River Hudson (World Financial Center)
The Paper Boat, River Schelde Antwerp Belgium (Stad ann de Stroom event)
The Felt Cottage, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum (Burns, Beuys and Beyond event)
1991 Dustbin Demonstrator, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scottish tour to Caithness (event for Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping)
1991 British Council Lecture Tour – Cricket and Bicycle and Spires events. India and Singapore
2000 Salmon Scul?ture, Coleraine Northern Ireland
2001 Northland Vent Scul?ture, Caithness cliff top
1991 Life Cycle Scul?ture
Group Shows
1966 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1967 Royal Scottish Academy
1968 Society of Scottish Artists (President 1987-89)
1972 Glasgow Group
1974 The Mall Gallery London (S.S.A. & R.G.I.)
1978
Hang-ups, Greenock Arts Guild and
MacRoberts Arts Centre Stirling
1966 Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
1980 Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
1981
Art and the Sea, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Ceolfrith Gallery Sunderland
Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool
Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
Institute of Contemporary Arts London
1981
Scottish Sculpture Open
Kildrummy Aberdeenshire
1983
Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park
First Ten Years, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
1984 International Contemporary Art Fair, Barbican Centre London
1985
First Ten Years, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
Sculptors’ Drawings, (Scottish Arts Council Tour)
1986 Unique and Original (Glasgow Print Studio on Tour)
1986
The Eye of the Storm, Smith Museum and Art Gallery Stirling
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock
1987
The State of the Nation, Herbet Museum and Art Gallery Coventry
Glasgow Group Norwegian Tour
1988
Richard Demarco Yugoslavian Tour (Spire Installation in Sarajevo)
Richard Demarco Gallery Edinburgh
1988
Hugh McDiarmid Exhibition, Galerie Redman Berlin
Ka-da-we Department Store Berlin
1989
A Bird in the Hand, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
For a That (Touring exhibition about Robert Burns) Ayr
Togail Tir (Making Time), An Lanntair, Stornoway Isle of Lewis
1990
Glasgow’s Glasgow, The Arches Glasgow
The Sugared Imagination, People’s Palace Glasgow
The Glasgow Fair, The People’s Palace Glasgow
Plug In Sculpture, outdoor exhibition, Buchanan Street Glasgow
The Glasgow Girls, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Estuary, Hillhead Library Glasgow
Surrealist Tendencies, Hillhead Library Glasgow
The Other Side of the Moon, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery London
1991 Scotland Creates, McLellan Galleries Glasgow
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Selected Commissions & Collections
Glasgow Cathedral; Cheshire County Hall; Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries; Glasgow Museum of Transport; Fluxus Archive USA (Getty); Ufa-Fabrik Berlin; General Accident Headquarters Perth; Royston Steeple Actions; Divine Rhythm (with mural painting by Dawson Murray) Buchannan Galleries Glasgow; The Millennium Garden Spire, Strathclyde University Glasgow; Monarch of Auchmountain Glen; Wee Haul Puffer, Islay Festival; The Bird and the Stone, Marie Curie Centre, Inverclyde Hospital; The Burns Line, Burns Museum, Ayrshire Council; The Peacock, McLellan Galleries; Time Flies, Edinburgh City Council; Amnesty International; Running Clock, Scottish Arts Council; Cosmic Reach, Scul?ture The Lecht; The Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester; Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries; Crawford Arts Centre University of St. Andrews
Film
1990 The Why’s Man by Murray Grigor, Channel 4
2007 Scottish Water educational film, Loch Katrine by Muckle Hen
2005 Cosmic Voyage, by Martin Laycock
2010 Beautifully Crude by Louise Wyllie and Helen Graham
