Born in Edinburgh in 1995, Hugh Morton studied Painting at Gray's School of Art graduating in 2017, before accepting a place on the postgraduate programme The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School. Since 2018 he has lived and worked in London. 

 

Education

 

The Royal Drawing School, London, The Drawing Year, 2018 -19

Leith School of Art, Graduate Residency Programme 2017 - 18

Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Painting BA Hons, 2013 -17

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

The 198th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, 2024

Man’s a Mountain, solo show, Maison Bertaux, London, 2021

In The Woods, Situationist RCA, London, 2020

Summer Show II, Maison Bertaux, London, 2020

The Drawing Year End of Year Show, The Royal Drawing School, London, 2019

Summer Show, Maison Bertaux, London, 2019

Leith School of Art End of Year Show, Edinburgh, 2018

RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2018

Hugh Morton & John Byrne, Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, 2017

Gray’s School of Art Degree Show, Aberdeen, 2017

Gray’s School of Art Painting Pre Degree Show, The Edinburgh Palette, Edinburgh, 2017

Whatever Sticks, Kukuklubbi, Tallinn, Estonia, 2017

FLY, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2016

Rapid, Gallerie AU, Vienna, 2016
Skotsko, Menada, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2015

 

Awards

 

Printmaking Prize, Royal Drawing School, 2019

The Jean Beattie Figure Drawing Prize, Gray’s School of Art, 2017

 

Collections

 

The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Private Collections

 

For any enquiries please contact:

 

hughmorton95@gmail.com

 

@hughthmorton