Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1975GB. Lives and works in Dundee)

Taking landscape as a starting point, Cruikshank’s paintings seek to reflect the emotive qualities of place. He uses colour as a vehicle to reveal the picture plane’s underlying point of reference, with a palette tied to the Scottish landscape. The surface of Cruikshank’s work does not tend to immediately reveal its full range of hues and gradations. This encourages a concentrated engagement with the qualities of paint and painting itself. Through adding and removing layers of paint he manages to produce subtle shifts between glowing undertones and rich overtones.

Solo exhibitions

2021
Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo (with Michael Craik), Barcelona. The Skies Window, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas. 
2019
Reductive in Nature, Schacky Art & Advisory, Dusseldorf. A Stillness that Contains Movement, The Briggait, Glasgow. 
2018
Paper Skies, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas. 
2017
Clear Light Day – Soft Dark Night, DAS ESSZIMMER, Bonn. The Relative Medium (with Michael Craik), Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg. Trace, Press, Bleed, Blend (with Laura Campbell), Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh. 
2016
Continuum (with Ian Kane), RAUMX, London. Repetition Takes Form, AIS Gallery, Shibukawa. 
2015
Ways of Seeing (with Michael Craik), Howden Park Centre, Livingston. Plus | Minus | Repeat, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh. 
2013
Malerei (with Michael Craik), Galerie Albrecht, Berlin. Colour as Subject, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh. 
2012
The Solo Project – Basel with Galerie Albrecht. 
2010  
When I Was Small I Didn't Work Big, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin. Dalcross Project Space (with Ian Kane), Dalcross, Inverness shire. The Colour of Home, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe. Moments of Absence, Limousine Bull, Aberdeen. En Forme (with Cecilia Vissers), ParisCONCRET, Paris. 
2009
Colour | Light | Space, Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire. 
2006 
Pembroke Mews, London. 
2003 
Paintings for Green Walls, Marie Currie House, Edinburgh. 
2001 
Five, Deutsche Bank, Edinburgh. 
2000 
Colourfields, Iona Gallery, Kingussie. 

Group exhibitions

2021
Landschaft – Abstrakt - Figuarativ, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin. 
2020
A Selection for Art Cologne, Schacky Art & Advisory, Dusseldorf. IDENTITIES, Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona. Drawer Project, PHOEBUS Galerie, Rotterdam. Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe. No Borders – online exhibition – curated by Art Thou. Paint vs Colour, Five Walls Gallery Melbourne. Art Palm Beach with Schacky Art & Advisory. 
2019
Beneath the Surface, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. "Zwischen Ausgängen - Pending Issues", Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin. Summertime Blues, Holly Johnson Gallery Dallas. Hybrid Madrid with WASPS. Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London. Anonymous Drawing Archive, Kunsthaus Kannen, Munster. 
2018
TWO x TWO For Aids and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas. Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Kornerpark, Berlin. Somewhere Over the Interconnected Rainbow, Drawing Rooms, New Jersey. Artists at Work, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. 
2017
Fault Lines, EIF exhibition curated by The Drawing Works, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh. FAR OFF Cologne with DAS ESSZIMMER. Extended Process, Saturation Point Projects, London. 
2016
DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum, Weltraum, Basel. 2015 Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten|Galerie Nord, Berlin -  (then travelling to Galerie ARTQ13, Rome
Galerie GEYSO20, Braunschweig & Kunstverein Russelsheim). Artbox Postcard Exhibition, Fold Gallery, London. 
2013
Kunst Zurich with Galerie Albrecht.  Poste Concret2, ParisCONCRET, Paris. Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten|Galerie Nord, Berlin -  (then travelling to Galerie Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig & Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven). 
2012
Three Gallery Artists, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin. 
2011         
Anonymous Drawing Archive, Sihlquaiss Offspace, Zurich. Poste Concret, ParisCONCRET, Paris. Dallas Art Fair with Gebert Contemporary. 
2010  
Anonymous Drawing Archive, Uferhallen, Berlin. Art Chicago with Galerie Albrecht. 
2009 
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanian, Berlin. Kunst Zurich with Galerie Albrecht. CGP Open, Cafe Gallery Projects, London. 
AAS, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen. 
2008 
Aspect Prize, Paisley Art Gallery and Museum, Paisley. 
2005 
Tercet Space, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow. Beauty and Order, Marie Currie House, Edinburgh. Art for Life, Christies, London. 
2004 
Proximity, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.  
2003 
12 x 12, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. 
2002 
Obscured, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh. Aphelion, art.tm, Inverness. 
2001 
14 x 14, Mafuji Gallery, London. Art House Studios, Musselburgh. Highland Open, Travelling Exhibition. 
2000 
New Highland Graduates, Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly. 
1999 
art.tm Biannual Open, Inverness.  

Awards & residencies

2020
Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund. 
2016
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award. 
2014
Edinburgh Council Visual Artist Award. 
2013
Hope Scott Trust (joint award with Michael Craik). 
2012
Mustarinda Residency, Finland. 
2010
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, USA. 
2009
Pollock-Krasner Award. Hi-Arts Exhibition Grant. 
2008 
Hope Scott Trust. Edinburgh Visual Arts & Crafts Artists Award. 
1999 
art.tm Young Artists Prize. 

Press & publications

2021
Glasstire – review of The Skies Window at Holly Johnson Gallery. 
2019
The Scotsman - review of Beneath the Surface at City Art Centre. Studio International - review of Beneath the Surface at City Art Centre. The Edinburgh Reporter – review of Beneath the Surface at City Art Centre. Catalogue to accompany Beneath the Surface at City Art Centre. Widewalls – review of Should I Stay or Should I Go? at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art. Catalogue to accompany Hybrid Madrid. 
2018
Catalogue from Clear Light Day – Soft Dark Night at DAS ESSZIMMER. 
2017
The Scotsman – review of Fault Lines at Patriothall Gallery. Catalogue to accompany Fault Lines at Patriothall Gallery. 
2015
Interviewed by Eileen Budd for Redbird Review. 
2014
Catalogue covering all exhibitions and projects at ParisCONCRET. 
2013
Catalogue to accompany Malerei at Galerie Albrecht. 
2012
Catalogue to accompany The Solo Project - Basel. Catalogue from exhibition at Dalcross Project Space. 
2010
Herald – preview of exhibition at Dalcross Project Space. Pamphlet to accompany When I Was Small I Didn’t Work Big at Galerie Albrecht. Santa Fe Art in Review - review of Colour of Home at Gebert Contemporary. Interviewed by Bob Ross for KSFR Radio Santa Fe. 
2009
Catalogue to accompany Anonymous Drawings at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanian. Catalogue to accompany Colour Light Space at Highland Institute for Contemporary Art. 

Collections

Art in Healthcare, Scotland. 

City of Edinburgh Art Collection. 

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe. 

U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. 

Education

1993 - 1997
BA (Hons) Painting and Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art.