Artists

Helen MacAlister
Biography

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Biography

1969

Born Edinburgh

1987-1991

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee BA (Hons) 1st Class, Fine Art, Drawing & Painting

Prizes and Scholarships

2006

Hope Scott Trust Award

Edinburgh City Council Artists Award Scheme

2005

Edinburgh City Council Professional Development Bursary

2004

Edinburgh City Council Artists Award Scheme

2003

Edinburgh City Council Artists Award Scheme

2000

Research Assistance, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

Edinburgh Visual Arts Award Scheme

1996/7

Italian Government Scholarship, Rome

Scottish Arts Council, Small Assistance Grant

1996

Scholarship/Residency at the Vermont Studio Centre, USA

Latimer Prize, Royal Scottish Academy

1995/6

Scholarship/Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

1995

Putnum Travel Fellowship

Hope Scott Trust

The Prince’s Trust European Grant, Madrid & Barcelona, Spain

1993

Bursary to study Italian at Siena University

The Rome Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome

John Murray Thomson Award for A Work by a Promising Young Artist

1992

The Arthur Andersen Prize for Best Young Artist

Miller Homes Young Scottish Artist, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1991

John Kinross Scholarship, Florence

1990

Hospitalfield Scholarship

1989

Ian Eadie Award

1988

Pat Homes Prize

Residencies and Foreign Studies

2000

Bellagio Study + Conference Centre, Italy (established by the Rockefeller Foundation, New York)

1997/9

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1996

Vermont Studio Center

1995

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

1993/4

One Year, British School at Rome, Italy

1993

Eight months, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy

1991/2

One Year, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Université de Paris, Sorbonne

1990

Three months, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland

Lecturing

2001-2004

Part-time lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

1991-2004

Part-time lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

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