CV
b. 1987 Falkirk, Scotland
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2015-2017 Turps Studio Programme, Turps Art School, London
2009-2011 MFA Painting (with Distinction), Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2005-2009 BA (Hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Meanwhile Canal Boat Contemporary, London
2024 Guesswork, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2023 You’d Notice If It Wasn’t There (with Lucienne O’Mara), OHSH Projects, London
2022 A Light Weight, GalleriHi10, Skien
2018 Sidesplit, Borough Road Gallery, London
2017 Big Crunch, Darbyshire Ltd, London
2015 We've Met Before, Haven't We?, Bargain Spot Project Space, Edinburgh
2015 No Ground Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Flat Volume, APT Gallery, London (upcoming)
Thieves, APT Gallery, London (upcoming)
Works from the Prominent Collection of Lady Victoria Beecham, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (upcoming)
One Thing Touches Another, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Wyoming
Turps Mentors Show, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
A Scottish Symphony, Crane Court Gallery, London
2024
Close to the Edge, Spor Klübü, Berlin
Light It Up, TondoCosmic, London
Under the Laurels, Weald Contemporary (online)
Undone, TondoCosmic, Making Space, London
Cubitt Invites, Cubitt Studios and Gallery, London
Worlds Still on a Wire, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
Dancing About Architecture, Hypha Studios, London
Touchpaper, Terrace Gallery, London
Start With Something, The Bridewell, Liverpool
Rope-a-dope, Oceans Apart, Manchester
Room Share 5, Safehouse, London
2023
Close Corners, Turps Gallery, London
Marsuppian, ASC Gallery, London
Waiting Room, The Koppel Project, London
Open Call 2023, mepaintsme (online)
To The Birds, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
Close Corners, HilbertRaum, Berlin
Checkmate, OHSH Projects South, Peckham, London
To The Birds, Landing (Electro Studios Project Space), St. Leonards-on-Sea
2022
Improv, APT Gallery, London
Things I Like I Lick, Terrace Gallery, London
Worlds On A Wire, Unit 3 Projects, London
Caught by the Tail, Studio 4G, London
Room Share 2, Safehouse 1, London
2021
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
Room Share, Safehouse1, London
Your Foot in my Face and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London
Studio Confetti, Terrace Gallery, London
Circling the Square, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2020
Then & Now, Terrace Gallery, London
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019, ASC Gallery, London
To Paint The Gloom Itself, Terrace Gallery, London
2019
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
Indoor Voices, Greystone Industries, Wickham Market (Curated by Graham Crowley)
The Inhuman / difficult transition /, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
Creekside Open 2019 (Selected by Sacha Craddock), APT Gallery, London
Capitulo Auditorio, Municipal Augusto Cabrita, Barreiro
The Deal, Les Maisons du Peuple, Brussels
2018
C’est de la Peinture! Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
Materias Primas, Galeria PADA, Barreiro, Lisbon
Tetris Hang, FamilyHouse.Space, London
Baring Teeth, Gallery 98, Ramsgate
Turps Cloud, Turps Gallery, London
2017
Settling The Ghost, Standard Projects, Wisconsin
Turps Studio Programme 2017, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
Three100, No Format Gallery, London
2016
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (invited artist)
2015
Curious Artefacts, The Art Wall, Athens
Salontology, Embassy, Edinburgh
2013
Warm Up, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh
2012
BEEP: Through Tomorrow's Eyes, Volcano@229, Swansea
Candid Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin
2011
No. 1: Paint, Blank Media Collective, Manchester
WRITING
2025
Whispering Amongst Themselves: Bruno Goller’s Paintings, Turps Magazine Issue 30
The Weirdly Distant: Minyoung Choi’s Paintings
Seeps and Slips and Swarms: Hitoko Urago’s Paintings
Day Into Night: Diana Cerezino’s Paintings
A to E (via D, B and C), COMPOST, Issue 2
2024
An Account of Painting, Painting (noun, verb), Kingsgate Gallery
There Are Only Lines in Nature: Graeme Todd’s Paintings, Turps Magazine, Issue 28
Some Thing Saying Something: Mikey Thomas ‘Shapeshifters, exhibition essay
2022
Broken Suggestive: Prunella Clough’s Later Paintings, Turps Magazine, Issue 25
2021
Play It Again: Karolina Albricht’s Paintings, OFF-BEAT exhibition catalogue
2019
Travel Light: Victor Willing’s Paintings 1976-1985, Turps Spotlight II: Victor Willing
Notes towards an essay on Victor Willing, Turps Magazine Issue 21
CURATION
2024 Worlds Still on a Wire, Canal Boat Contemporary, London
2023 Close Corners, Turps Gallery, London
Close Corners, HilbertRaum, Berlin
Ansel Krut ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’, Turps Gallery, London
2022 Worlds on a Wire, Unit 3 Projects, London
2021 Circling the Square, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2019 Victor Willing ‘Scratch the Wall’, Turps Gallery/ASC Gallery, London
AWARDS
2022 Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award
2019 Shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019
2017 Darbyshire Prize for Emerging Art
Longlisted for Anthology 2017, Charlie Smith London
2015 Hope Scott Trust Visual Arts Award
Eaton Fund Artist Grant
Creative Scotland Open Project Funding Award
2013 Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts Award
2011 Andrew Grant Travel Bequest
BIBILOGRAPHY
2025 3 Painters Respond to Scott McCracken’s Guesswork, Passing Notes Issue 4 One Thing Touches Another, Maya Frodeman Gallery
2024 A Study in Artistic Balance, Weald Contemporary (online)
Working Like a Painter: Scott McCracken talks to Terry Winters, Turps Magazine Issue 28
2023 Metaphors of the Mind: Graeme Todd, Royal Scottish Academy
2022 Artw**k Podcast Interview
2021 To The Studio podcast with Karolina Albricht
2020 A Nameless Kind of Painting: Sean Steadman, Scott McCracken, David Auborn, Daniel
Sinsel and Erin O’Keefe talk to Matt Lippiatt, Turps Magazine, Issue 23
2019 Scott McCracken talks painting with Rachel Maclean, Turps Magazine Issue 19
Contemporary British Painting 2019 exhibition catalogue
PADA Issue 1
A Community of Images, ArtMaze Mag, Issue 6, 2018 (ISSN 2399-892X)
2017 Youngspace Q&A
Floorr Magazine Issue 11, 2017
COLLECTIONS
Soho House, London
Private collections in the UK and the USA