Saul Robertson RSW RGI
Saul Robertson was born in 1978 and studied drawing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art between 1996 and 2000. During his time as a student he was nominated for the Scottish International Educational Trust Award and won The Ninewells MRI Imaging Purchase Prize.
Soon after graduating he was voted Young Artist of the Year, at the The Hunting Art Prizes at the Royal College of Art in London. Since then he has won numerous awards including: The City of Glasgow Prize, The David Cargill Senior Award, The David Cargill Award, The Armour Award, and The James Torrance Memorial Award at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
In 2005 he won second prize at the B.P Portrait award at the National Portrait Gallery, London for his painting "The Universe".
Saul was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award by The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Canada, was shortlisted for The Insight Investment Newcomers Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, and won both the James BS Curr Memorial Prize and the AB Prize at the Paisley Art Institute. In 2011 he was granted a second award by The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and in 2012 was given The Bet Low Trust Award as well as being appointed a visiting lecturer in fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. In 2013 Saul won The Maclaurin Open Fine Art Exhibition. During 2019 Saul was given a place on the City of Ingolstadt artist residency programme in Germany, and was a prize winner at The Scottish Portrait Awards. In 2020 Saul was again a prize winner at The Scottish Portrait Awards, and won The Scottish Portrait Award in Fine Art in 2021. In 2022 he was elected as a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, and was elected as a member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts in 2023.
Saul has exhibited widely throughout the United Kingdom in venues such as The Fleming Collection, London; The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; The Royal Academy, London; Paisley Art gallery; The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; The National Portrait Gallery, London; Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden; The Royal College of Art, London and Mall Galleries, London. His work was included in a major touring exhibition of self portraits entitled "Divided Selves - The Scottish Self-portrait from the 17th century to the present", and he has also held ten solo exhibitions to date.
Saul Robertson's work can be found in many collections, including; Art Review Magazine; University of Dundee Museum Collections; City of Glasgow College; Glasgow Museums; The Lillie Art Gallery; Tayside NHS and Walter Scott Global Investment, Edinburgh.
Education
1996-2000 BA Honours (Drawing and Painting)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Awards and Residencies
2023 Elected member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of The
Fine Arts
2022 Elected member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters
in Watercolour
2021 Winner of The Scottish Portrait Awards
2020 Prize winner, The Scottish Portrait Awards
2019 Prize winner, The Scottish Portrait Awards
2019 The City of Ingolstadt Residency, Ingolstadt, Germany
2013 First Prize, The Maclaurin Open, The Maclaurin
Art Gallery
2012 The Bet Low Trust Award
2012 The James Torrance Memorial Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
2011 The Armour Award, Royal Glasgow Institute
2011 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
2011 AB Prize, The Paisley Art Institute
2010 James BS Curr Memorial Prize, The Paisley Art Institute
2007 Shortlisted for the Insight Investment Newcomers Prize,
The Royal Academy of Art, London
2006 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Canada
2005 The City of Glasgow Prize, Royal Glasgow
Institute
2005 Prize winner, The BP portrait Award, National Portrait
Gallery, London
2004 The David Cargill Senior Award, Royal Glasgow
Institute
2003 The David Cargill Award, Royal Glasgow
Institute
2001 Young Artist of the Year, The Hunting Art Prizes,
The Royal College of Art, London
2000 The Ninewells MRI Imaging Purchase Prize
2000 Nominated for the Scottish International Education
Trust Award
Solo Exhibitions
2022 'Journeys', Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
2022 'Showcase', The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 ‘Here: Small Paintings and Drawings’
Partickhill Bowling and Community Club
2018 'The Other River', Ralph Cowan Gallery,
City of Glasgow College Art Foundation, Glasgow
2015 "Living in Time", Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2015 "Pathways and Houses", Rozelle House, The Maclaurin
Art Gallery
2014 "From Here to Here", The Lamb Gallery, The University of Dundee
2010 "Eyots - Some Paintings and Drawings from the
Last Ten Years", The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
2009 "What we Found on the River Bed", The Temple Gallery,
Aberfeldy
2008 "Soliloquy", Thompson's Gallery, London
2006 "Paintings from a Small Room", Roger Billcliffe Fine
Art, Glasgow
2005 "Day and Night", Thompson's Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2023 Summer Show, Fidra Fine Art, Gullane
2021 The Heriot Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh (touring to
Glasgow Art Club and Gracefield Art Centre)
2021 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2020/2021 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh (touring to
Glasgow Art Club and Duff House)
2019/2020 The Scottish Portrait Awards, Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh (touring to
Glasgow Art Club and Kirkcudbright Galleries)
2019 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2019 Utopia - What’s Yours?, Gacefield Arts Centre Dumfries (touring to
Kirkcudbright Galleries)
2019 Back to the Drawing Board, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
2018 The Lillie Art Gallery
2018 40:40 Vision, Forty Years of Wasps,
Kirkcudbright Galleries
2018 The North Sea, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2017 Citizen Spire, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2016 The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2016 Cabinet Paintings, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
2016 Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow
2015 Leiper Fine Art Glasgow
2014 Festival Exhibition-Works on paper, Doubtfire
Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 Byard Art, Cambridge
2012 Stafford Gallery, London
2012 50 at the Lillie-Paintings from the Permanent
Collection, The Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
2010 Portal Painters, London
2010-2018. Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
2009 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2008/2009 Red Rag Gallery, Gloucestershire
2008 Oakham Contemporary, London
2008 Catmose Gallery, Vale of Catmose College, Rutland,
Leicestershire
2007,09,13,20 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2007 Two Person Exhibition, CFAG, Eton
2006 Divided Selves-The Scottish Self Portrait from the
17th Century to the Present, The Talbot Rice
Gallery, Edinburgh (touring to the Fleming
Collection, London)
2005/2006 The BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery,
London(Touring to Sunderland Museum and Scottish
National Portrait Gallery)
2004-Present Roger Billcliffe Fine Art Glasgow
2004 Three Person Exhibition, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Three Person Exhibition, Thompson's Gallery, London
2002 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2001/2002 The Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art,
London
2001 Fresh Paint 2, Maclean Fine Art, London
2001 In House, Mall Galleries, London
2000-2011 Scottish Drawing Competition,
Paisley Art Gallery, Paisley
2000 New Generation, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2000 Royal Scottish Academy Students Exhibition,
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Collections
Art Review Magazine
Citizen Spire Project
City of Glasgow College
University of Dundee Museum Collections
Glasgow Museums
Lillie Art Gallery
Tayside NHS
Walter Scott Investment, Edinburgh
Professional Experience
2012 Visiting lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art