Biography
Lennox Dunbar (b. Paisley, Scotland, UK 1952) studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (1969-74) and later bacame Head of the Printmaking Department and, is now an Emeritus Professor of Fine Art, there. He was also an etching technician at Peacock Printmakers (1978–86) before becoming a visiting artist-tutor at Louisiana State University, USA in 1986. amongst others. Awards include a series of travel awards across Europe and to America; the RSA’s Meyer Oppenheim Award, 1976 (he was made an RSA associate in 1990); its Latimer Award in 1978, the year he set up the Amsterdam Studio for the Scottish Arts Council; the RSA Guthrie Award, 1984; Shell Premier Award and the RSA Highland Society of London Awards in the early 1990s, as well as the Prize of the Municipal Art Museum Gyor, Hungary, International Print Biennale, Varna, Bulgaria, Shell Premier Award, major prize for the Cleveland Drawing Biennale and the Whyte and Mackay Award, Society of Scottish Artists and several major awards at the Royal Scottish Academy.
In 1987 Dunbar won 1st Prize in the Paisley Art Institute Drawing Competion, two years after winning the 2nd Prize. He was a Major Prizewinner, Cleveland Drawing Biennale, 1989. Selected exhibitions include Double Elephant, British Prints, Barbican Centre (1985); Printmakers’ Drawings, Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh (1987); and Paperworks IV, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, 1993. There was an important solo show at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, and Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, 1995. The strongly patterned pictures in this exhibition drew on implements and materials used to shape the traditional landscape around Dunbar’s studio at Auchnagatt, as well as new images such as kit house building and plantation trees.
