ARTIST CV
EDUCATION
2020 - 2021 MA Art & Social Practice, Distinction, University of the Highlands and Islands
2015 - 2019 BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice, First Class, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University
2018 Semester Abroad: University of Victoria, Canada
AWARDS
2023 Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award Highland, High Life Highland and Creative Scotland
2020 Creative In Your Community, Highland Youth Arts Hub, Fèis Rois and Creative Scotland
2020 Nurturing Talent: Time to Shine Fund, Young Scot, Creative Scotland and NYAAG
2020 Visual Artist & Craft Maker Award Highland, High Life Highland, XpoNorth and Creative Scotland
2019 First Prize for Drawing Award, Aberdeen Artists Society
2019 RGU Art & Heritage Collections Purchase Award, Robert Gordon University
2015 Awarded DUX for Academic Achievement, Plockton High School
2013, 2014 Platter for Craft & Design, Plockton High School
RESIDENCIES
2023 Inshriach Bothy Residency, commissioned by Cairngorms Youth Action Team with Bothy Project, in partnership with the Cairngorms Trust and Cairngorms National Park Authority.
COMMISSIONS
2022 ATLAS Arts, series of Aquaculture Cradle screenprint editions
2021 ATLAS Arts, Art in Schools, socially engaged art project with local primary schools
2020 ATLAS Arts and Engage Scotland, natural world themed zines for the communal Skye Zine Library
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sown, Grampian Hospitals Arts Trust
2022 Of the Earth, Create, Kyle of Lochalsh
2022 Inverness Darkroom Member’s Exhibition, Inverness Creative Academy
2022 Terrafabulations, Circus Graduate Associates, Inverness Creative Academy
2021 A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting, School of Plural Futures & Atlas Arts, Talbot Rice Gallery
2021 Policing Art: Hope Blossoms, Early Career Creatives, Edinburgh
2020 Super Market, Circus Artspace, Inverness
2020 Gray’s School of Art Virtual Degree Show: RGU Arts and Heritage Virtual Museum
2020 Collective Isolation, The Bridge Art Collective, Virtual Exhibition
2020 Coming Home, Aberdeen Artists Society, Virtual Exhibition, Isabel McLeish
2020 The Bridge Art Collective Group Show, The Bridge Art Collective, The Lemond Gallery, Bearsden
2019 Midwinter, The Bridge Art Collective, Kyle of Lochalsh Railway Station, Kyle of Lochalsh
2019 Flora, Fauna & Other Forms, Nomad, Bonnymuir Green, Aberdeen
2019 Bees and Trees: Meg Miller and Isabel McLeish, The Steadings Gallery, Kyle of Lochalsh
2019 Aberdeen Art Fair, Aberdeen Artists Society, Music Hall, Aberdeen
2019 Gray’s 2019 Degree Show, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
2017 Mount, Third Year Contemporary Art Practice Students, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
2017 All the Young Gray’s, Second Year Contemporary Art Practice Students, Hatch, Aberdeen
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
2021 Member of Graduate Associates, Circus Artspace
2021 Member of the School of Plural Futures, ATLAS Arts
2020 Summer Graduate Intern, Circus Artspace, Inverness
2019 - 2020 Member of The Bridge Art Collective
2019 - 2020 Honorary member of Aberdeen Artists Society
PUBLICATIONS FEATURED IN
2023 Circus Artspace, ‘Guardian of the Gateway: 800 years of the Beauly Wych Elm’
2022 Circus Artspace, ‘Graduate Associates Publication’
2021 School of Plural Futures: ATLAS Arts, ‘A Person Is Not An Individual’
2020 Art North, Special Edition Double Issue, ‘Reconnecting with the Living Land’
PRESS & ARTICLES
2023 BBC, Wych Elm interview for ‘Out of Doors’ radio programme
2022 BBC News, ‘Village to celebrate its ancient dying wych elm’
2022 Inverness Courier, ‘Gothic Wych Elm inspires Lochalsh artist’
2020 Ross-Shire Journal, ‘Ross-shire creatives win £1000 arts backing from Fèis Rois-led arts group’
2020 The Press and Journal, ‘Fund provides support & mentoring to talented young artists in Highlands’
2020 RGU Art and Heritage Collections, ‘Defined Form: Isabel McLeish’
2020 The Herald, ‘The Lemond Gallery, Bearsden: The Bridge Art Collective’
2020 The Herald Magazine, ‘Critic’s Choice’, The Bridge Art Collective at the Lemond Gallery
2020 The West Highland Free Press, ‘Skye and Lochalsh artists set for first Glasgow exhibition’
2019 The West Highland Free Press, ‘New member joins Bridge Collective’
2019 The Press and Journal, ‘Celebrating New Arts Initiative: Flora, Fauna & Other Forms Exhibition’
2019 The Scotsman, ‘Relationship to the natural world is young artists’ major concern’
2019 The Robert Gordon University, ‘Talented artists to exhibit their work at Aberdeen Art Fair’