Mhairi McGregor RSW

Mhairi McGregor was born in Paisley in 1971. At the Glasgow School of Art she studied under, amongst others, James Robertson and Barbara Rae RA, graduating  with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1993. 

Throughout her career, multi-award-winning McGregor has travelled extensively, painted and exhibited in Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA, as well as finding constant inspiration in her native Scotland. In pursuit of subject matter she has lived and worked in Italy, France, Spain, the USA, Canada and, most of all, her “second home”, Australia.

Collections include the Royal Scottish Academy, Fleming Holdings and Aberdeen University and private collections across the UK as well as the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Selected Group Exhibitions

Royal Academy  

Royal Scottish Academy

Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Royal Glasgow Institute

Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow

The Mall Galleries, London

Thompson’s Gallery, Marylebone and Aldeburgh

Maddox Gallery, Mayfair

Albany Gallery, Cardiff

Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

The Lost Gallery, Strathdon

Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh

LImetree Gallery (Long Melford and Bristol)

Gallery Q, Dundee

Red Rag Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold

Lemon Street Gallery, Truro

White Space Art, Totnes

Falle Fine Art, Jersey

Bircham Gallery, Holt

Jerram Gallery, Sherbourne

Hill-Smith Fine Art, Adelaide

Green Gallery, Munich,

Corte Real, Algarve

Solo Exhibitions

Christie’s, Glasgow, 1993

Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2019 (2023)

Thompson’s Gallery, London 2017, 2019, 2021 (2023)

Edgar Modern Fine Art, Bath, 2007, 2009, 2011

The Green Gallery, Stirlingshire, 1993, 1995, 1997

House For An Art Lover, Glasgow 2016

Glasgow Art Club, 2001

Ruth Davidson Memorial Exhibition, Aberdeen University, 2000

Rab Ha’s, Glasgow, 1994

Selected Awards

Royal Scottish Academy - John Kinross Scholarship

Christie’s Bursary - Third Year Studies

Glasgow School of Art - Landscape Drawing Prize

RSW Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award

The Laing Art Prize – Regional Winner

RSW Betty Davies Award,

Glasgow Art Club Fellowship

Mary Armour Award

Paisley Art Institute Prize

Paisley Art Institute - Art Hire :The Artists‘ Frameshop Award

House For An Art Lover Award

      The Aspect Prize (shortlisted)

The Alastair Salvesen Scholarship (shortlisted twice)

Gilchrist-Fisher Memorial Award (shortlisted)

W Gordon Smith Award (finalist)