Patsy McArthur studied painting in Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland at Gray's School of Art in the late 90s and gained a Masters in European Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art Barcelona program in 2001.

Since then she has spent periods of time living and working in Barcelona, Berlin and Sydney and has undertaken residencies in NYC, Italy and Shanghai.

She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and abroad, recently exhibiting at Context fair during Art Miami and throughout the US, and has held recent solo shows with Thompsons Gallery in London and Le Salon Vert in Geneva.

Recently a shortlisted finalist of the inaugural Castlegate Prize, she has also been selected for major national exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2023 and 2024.

Education

• 2000 – 2001 Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, Spain – MA European Fine Art

• 1994 – 1998 Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen – BA(Hons) Fine Art

Exhibitions

• 2024

• The Mavens, Six Figurative Female Artists, Decorazon Gallery. NYC, USA

• The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh

• Then and Now, Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh

• Caledonian, Thompsons Gallery, London

• Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

  2023

• Invigorate Solo Exhibition of new drawings, Thompson’s Gallery, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

• Forms of Expression, Tatha Gallery, Fife, Scotland

• Autumn and Winter Exhibitions, Thompsons Gallery, London and Aldeburgh, Suffolk

• 2022

  • The Scottish Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, Harpenden

  • Society of Women Artists 161st Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

  • Finding The Wonder, Tatha Gallery, Fife, Scotland

  • Autumn Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London

  • SSA 130th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 2021

  • Flux, Solo Show of New Drawings, Thompsons Gallery, London

  • Context, Art Miami, USA represented by Decorazon Gallery

  • Castlegate Prize Finalists Exhibition, Castlegate Gallery, Cumbria, UK

• 2020

  • Greyscale, Group drawing exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London

  • AAF NYC, Decorazon Gallery, USA

  • Pool Party Group Exhibition, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

  • Rhythm and Movement – Solo Show, Turner Barnes Gallery, Essex

• 2019

  • Gallery Artists Mixed Exhibition, Decorazon Gallery, Terminal Warehouse, New York

  • Summer, Autumn and Winter Exhibitions, Cameron Contemporary, Hove

• 2018

  • Solo Show, Momentum, Le Salon Vert, Geneva

  • Reveal Art Fair, Saratoga Springs, New York represented by Decorazon Gallery

  • London Art Fair, represented by Decorazon Gallery

• 2017

  • Art Palm Springs, represented by Decorazon Gallery

  • Stillness in Motion – Patsy McArthur and Susan Leyland, Osborne Studio Gallery, London

  • London Art Fair, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

  • AAF New York, Stockholm and London, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

• 2016

  • Patsy McArthur and Rebecca McGlinn, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

  • Asia Contemporary, Hong Kong, represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

  • AAF New York, London, Stockholm represented by Decorazon Gallery (USA)

• 2015

  • Otherworld, Solo Exhibition of New Work, The Coningsby Gallery, Fitzrovia, London

• 2014

  • Patsy McArthur and Ian Hodgson, Naked Eye Gallery, Hove

  • Chelsea Art Fair, represented by Cameron Contemporary, Hove

  • Works on Paper Fair, London Science Museum, represented by Lilford Gallery, Canterbury

• 2013

  • SWAB International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain represented by Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

• 2011

  • Women’s Lines, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China

  • Figuratively Speaking, Blackheath Gallery, London

  • SWAB International Art Fair represented by Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  • Paisley Art Institution Annual Exhibition, Paisley Museum, Scotland

  • Visual Arts Scotland Selected Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 2010

  • Patsy McArthur and Dylan Lisle, Union Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Solo Exhibition of New Work, Flying Colours Gallery, Chelsea, London

• 2009

  • International Residency Program Exhibition, NY Studio Gallery, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York

  • El Mur, International Public Art Projection, Lleida, Spain

  • The Figure: Figurative Group Exhibition, Blackheath Gallery, London

  • New Faces Revisited, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 2008

  • British Art Fair 20-21, Islington, London represented by Flying Colours Gallery, London

  • Art London, Chelsea, London represented by Flying Colours Gallery, London

  • Liquid Light: Underwater Aesthetics, Sesame Gallery, Islington, London – Patsy McArthur, Sarah Harvey, Oliver Wilson and Kim Yeon

Scholarships & Awards

• 2011

  • Residency at Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China

• 2010

  • Residency at NY Studio Gallery, Manhattan, New York City

• 2002

  • The Paisley Art Institute Award

  • £2000 1st Prize Bank of Scotland Open Art Competition, Arbroath

  • Visitors Award, North Ayrshire Open Art Competition

• 1998

  • Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship Travel Scholarship – to spend time living and working in Florence, Italy

  • Grampian Hospitals Purchase Prize

Work in Collections

• The Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland

• The Walter Scott Collection, Edinburgh, Scotland

• The Malcolm Group, Scotland

• The Elphinstone Group, Glasgow, Scotland

• The Scarlet Hotel, Cornwall, England

• Private Collections in the UK, France, Holland, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Italy, Spain and the US.