Colin Halliday CV
 
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1964 Born Carlisle
1987-88 Foundation Course in Fine Art, Carlisle
1989-92 BA (Honours) Fine Art, Exeter

One Person Shows

February 1994 "Somewhere between preservation and destruction", Carnegie Arts Centre, Workington, Cumbria
March-April 1997 "Fools Paradise", The Sun and Doves, Camberwell
February 1999 "Landscape in Consciousness", The One Below Gallery, Telegraph Hill, London and continuing in June at Grey College, Durham
October 1999 "Future Landscapes" Knapp Gallery, Regent's College, London
Jan-March 2000 "The Promised Land", Harrow Arts Club
April 2000 "Aretrospective", The Walk Gallery, London
June-July 2000 "The Twenty First Century Landscape", Sutton House, Hackney
June 2001 "Lost Wilderness", Blyth Gallery, Manchester October 2002 The Walk Gallery, London
September 2003 "Great Expectations", Camberwell
June - July 2004 " From City to Sea" Great Expectations, Camberwell
Oct -Dec 2004 Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Pilgrim st. London (represented by Collyer Bristow)
March 2005 "The Smoke and the water" G.Expectations, Camberwell
June 2006 "English Landscapes" G.Expectations, Camberwell

Group Shows
February 1992 "Sign V Symbol", Space X Gallery, Exeter
July 1993 "The Lake Artists Society", Grasmere, Cumbria
June-July 1994 Summer Show, Burlington New Gallery, London W1
October 1997 "The Goose Green Open" Dulwich Picture Gallery (selected by Tom Philips)
April-May 1998 "The Magic Place" (Joint Show with Matthew Sibley) Islington Arts Factory
July-August 2001 Summer Show, Art Attack, Hoxton Square
November 2001 Thomas Corman Fine Art, Ashurst Morris and Crisp, Broadbalk House, London EC1
March 2002 "Life in the City", Wills Art Warehouse, Parson's Green
November 2002- March 2003 Webbs Marine Gallery, Battersea, London
July 2003 Group Show, Enid Lawson, London
July-Sept 2003 "Life in the City", Wills Art Warehouse, London
June 2004 Artspace at Navestock, Essex
Sept 2004 Artspace at Worcester
Oct 2004 "Escape", Wills Art Warehouse, London
Sept 2005 "Life in the city", Wills Art Warehouse, London

Commissions
Macmillan Trust,Earl of Scarbrough Cancer suite, Rotherham NHS

My work aims to reflect the beauty that can be found in everyday life, even in the city. A brief glimpse of nature, such as a flock of birds flying above the roof tops, a cloudscape or a sunset, maybe ephemeral by nature, but can leave a lasting sense of peace.