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United Kingdom	6
Austria	1
Germany	1

Biography:

1965 Born in Greenock (UK)

Alison Watt studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. Her work first came to public attention in 1987 when she won the National Portrait Gallery's coveted annual award and in the late 1980's and early 90's she became well known for her paintings of figures, often female nudes, in dryly painted, light filled interiors. An exhibition in 1997 at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery marked a turning point by introducing fabric alongside these figures, simultaneously suggesting a debt to the 19th century painter Ingres, as well as pointing to the possibilities of abstraction.

Watt's most recent exhibition, titled simply Shift, at Scotland's National Gallery of Modern Art at the end of 2000, took these ideas a stage further still with twelve large works, each depicting swathes of fabric alone. These exquisitely painted canvases edge further towards the abstract yet have a strange, almost sexy, quality which suggests a hint of human presence, or at least absence.

Alison Watt's work has been exhibited and collected by many public collections and paintings from the exhibition Shift have been bought by Aberdeen City Art Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The four most recent works (Sabine, Riviere, Rosebud and Shift) can currently be seen at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London where they will be on display until 21 July, 2002

Public exhibitions 8

Solo shows 5

2008

Alison Watt - Phantom - The National Gallery, London (England)

2007