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
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