Gwen Hardie
Gwen Hardie (born 1962) is a Scottish artist.
Gwen Hardie
- Born
- 1962
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor
- Education
- Edinburgh College of Art
- Languages
- English
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Gwen Hardie (born 1962) is a Scottish artist.
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Gwen Hardie (born 1962) is a British painter and sculptor. The painter studied at Edinburgh College of Art.
Languages used include English. Works by Gwen Hardie are held at City Art Centre, Manchester Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.
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Gwen Hardie studied at Edinburgh College of Art. The recorded working language is English. Work by Gwen Hardie is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Galleries Scotland, Manchester Art Gallery, The Fleming Collection and City Art Centre.
Gwen Hardie was born in Fife, Scotland in 1962. She spent her childhood in Aberdeenshire and studied art at the Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in London and Berlin before moving to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York in 2000.
Museums and galleries
Museums and galleries
Hardie's work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, Leicestershire County Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Highland Council, Manchester City Galleries, and the University of Edinburgh. She was one of the Scottish artists whose portraits were painted in the 1980s by Alexander Moffat.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 2015 • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2015 • Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, USA, 2014 • Garis & Hahn, New York • The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin • Ann Lanntair and Taigh Chearsabhagh, The Hebrides, Scotland, 2013
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Awards and distinctions
Hardie has been given residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; and at Yaddo, MacDowell, the VCCA and the Bogliasco Foundation in America. In 1990, she became the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
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- 1.Smithsonian Institution. Portrait of an Artist: Gwen Hardie. Face to Face. 15 January 2013.
- 2.Painting, The Essential School Of. Gwen Hardie Biography – The Essential School Of Painting. July 2020.
- 3.Gwen Hardie. Bio.
- 4.The British Council. Gwen Hardie (1962 – ).
- 5.National Galleries of Scotland. Gwen Hardie.
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