Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Gwen Hardie

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.gwenhardie.com
Gwen Hardie is a Scottish artist. Born in Scotland, she spent her childhood in Aberdeenshire. She studied art at Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in London and Berlin before moving to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York. Hardie has been given residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; and at Yaddo, MacDowell, the VCCA, and the Bogliasco Foundation in America. She was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Hardie's work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the British Council, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, Leicestershire County Council, City of Edinburgh Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Highland Council, Manchester City Galleries, and the University of Edinburgh. She was one of the Scottish artists whose portraits were painted in the 1980s by Alexander Moffat.

Studios

Firth

Gwen Hardie worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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