Deirdre Robertson SSA MFA
Selected Exhibitions, Publications & Other Work
February 2013 to March 2013 - Acts of Displacement, D’Arcy Thomson Museum
February 2013 - Embassy Members Show, Edinburgh
March 2013 - Generator Members Show, Dundee
March 2013 - Undesirables – Heathfield Car Park, University of Dundee
April/May 2013 - Openings, Nomads Project , Ward Road & McManus Galleries, - Collaboration with Sam Jack and Claire Briegel
2013 - ongoing - West Ward Works - initially as joint project initiator, now as Trustee
June 2013 - Embassy Annuale, Gilmerton Show (sell out performance)
August 2013DJCA, Degree Show - with kind support from the Hendy Moore Foundation and Dame Evelyn Glennie
October 2013 - Life Lines, Fate, Cupar Arts Festival – collaboration with Derek Robertson RSW, SSA, legendary singer Sheena Wellington, and BAFTA nominated film maker, Lindsay Brown; including children's workshops
Nov 2014 to March 2015 - 6 month project with a large academies school chain (34 schools)
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015 - Life Lines tour, Anstruther Fisheries Museum ; representation and artists talks, including workshop for learning disabilities group
July 2015 - Noose, Part of EMPIRE, SSA selected group show at the Old Rope Works, Montrose, marking the 50th anniversary of the removal of the death penalty in Scotland
Nov 2015 - secured Graham Fagan as invited artist for the SSA 2015/16 show.
Dec 2015 to Jan 2016 - SSA Annual Exhibition - invited artist with representation of Noose Rendition
2016 - June - Take Me to the Bridge, publication, initiated by Gair Dunlop (Course Director of Time Based Media Art , DJCA) with contributions from David Faithful, Eddie Summerton and Janice Aitkens.
Summer 2016 - pitched for the artist, Bettina Hutschek, selected as one of 2 artist curators representing Malta at the Venice Biennale 2017 after an absence of 17 years and coinciding with the Malta's Presidency of the EU. Subsequently approached and secured her as the invited artists for the SSA 2016 show.
2016 - August - Jiff Lemon Tree Reinstatement, with support of the Tay Road Bridge, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Tay Road Bridge
July 2016 - Feb 2017 - 6 month assignment for the Scout Association, London
2016-2017 - Human Rights Monitoring on behalf of HMIPS, women's prison Corntonvale and police cell monitoring on behalf of the Scottish Police Association
2013 - current - commissioned as biographer for Joyce Laing - Scotland's first art therapist, the founder of the Pittenweem arts festival, the art therapist at the Barlinnie Special Unit attributed with the rehabilitation of several long stay prisoners, and founder of Art Extraordinary (collection now in the collection of Glasgow Museum)
