Artist CV
Mary Walters
Date of birth 6.11.1945
Address: 2 sciennes Road, Edinburgh EH9 1LE
Email mary.walters7@gmail.com
Website: www.mary-walters.com
Post-school education:
1963 -67
Edinburgh University
M.A. Hons. (Upper Second) awarded 1967 in Geography (main)
with subsidiary Geology, Social Anthropology and French.
1967 -69
Bristol University
Post graduate research post in Urban Geography
1969 - 70
Bath University
Diploma in Education awarded 1970 with specialist subjects
Geography and CCTV in Education.
1998 - 2003 Edinburgh University
MSc in Advanced Professional Studies including modules
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internet and electronic communications in education
multi-media systems in education
art and design
teaching and assessment for effective learning
dissertation on “Multimedia creativity with pupils with moderate learning
difficulties”
2005: Full standard for Chartered Teacher awarded by General Teaching
Council of Scotland: claim based on “Creativity and pupils with special
educational needs”
2013: Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh University)
BA Combined Studies (with merit)
Employment:
The main part of my employment career has been in both the community arts
sector (artistic director of Edinburgh-based Slide Workshop, 1984 – 2000),
and in formal education, working as art teacher in state schools for children
with special needs. Currently (1994 – 2015), I am art teacher at Kaimes
school for young people on the autistic spectrum.
Over this career I have been heavily involved in arts work of all sorts, having
worked nationally and internationally on projects designed to facilitate self
expression through the arts for people with little or no access to such routes.
Over the past 8 years, I have studies part-time to fulfil my long-term ambition
of formalizing my learning, and have now gained a degree in combined
studies from Edinburgh College of Art.
A full outline of all the work done during my community arts career is to be
found on my website (www.mary-walters.com) – and I append here a list of
key solo and group exhibitions, together with some highlights of my
community arts career.
Pending exhibitions:
Arteles residency, Finland, August/September 2015
Group show St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, May 2016
NES residency, Iceland June/July?august 2015
Exhibitions:
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Biennale de l”Estampe, Espace Culturel du Four Pontet. Magne,
France, May 2015
Earthworks, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, April 2015 (group show)
Rhythms, Patriothall Gallery Edinburgh, March 2015 (group show)
VAS:T, Visual Art Scotland annual show RSA Galleries, Edinburgh,
February 2015
RSW annual exhibition, RSA galleries, the Mound, Edinburgh, January
2015
20-20 print exchange, Edinburgh Printmakers’ workshop, Winter 2014
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, Winter show. December 2014
Galerie 1940, Edinburgh winter exhibition, December 2014
Society of Scottish Artists’ annual show, RSA galleries, the Mound,
Edinburgh, December 2014
Black Cube Collective print exchange and exhibition, Whitespace,
Edinburgh, November 2014
Cirriform – a collaboration of artists-in-residence, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
August 2014
Trollaskaga Art Exhibition – at Listhus Residency, Olafsfjordur, Iceland.
July 2014
An Talla Solais Members’ summer show, Ullapool, July – August 2014
Surface Memory – with Mesh collective, Peebles Museum and Art
Gallery, December 2013
Landworks – with Annie Peel, Gallery 1, Arts Complex, Edinburgh,
November 2013
This Land – a Travelling Gallery exhibition – sketch books in
complementary programme (City Art Centre)
Black Cube Collective show, Old Ambulance Depot, Autumn 2013
6 Foot Gallery Glasgow – best in show, Autumn 2013
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Edinburgh College of Art degree show June 2013
Combin(ed) group show, Embo cafe, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Autumn
2012
Solo show Embo cafe, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, October 2012
Print(ed) group exhibition Edinburgh College of Art March 2012
Combin(ed) Textiles group exhibition Edinburgh College of Art 2011
Response to Tanera Mhor group show – McNaughton’s Bookshop,
Edinburgh 2010
Annual part-time combined study exhibitions Edinburgh College of Art
2005 – 2012
“Mixing Fibres” group exhibition WASPS Patriothall Gallery 2009
“Mixing Fibres” group exhibition WASPS Patriothall Gallery 2007
Churchill travelling scholarship to Cuba to study the use of papier
mache in a Cuban community context 2001
Production of major photographic exhibition and book (Yet We Survive)
undertaken with the Carib (now Kalinago) people of Dominica, Eastern
Caribbean. (published by Papillotte press)
Participation in Fotofeis, Scotland’s photography biennale, with work
from Dominica and the Yet We Survive exhibition – Portree, Isle of
Skye
Earth Nocturnes (Scottish Arts Council award for travelling light
sculpture)
The Image Machine (Scottish Arts Council award for light projection
performance piece)
For the pupils at Kaimes School, I have exhibited their work in the following
public spaces:
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Matisse, Masks and (Mr) Men (More from Kaimesworld) Gallery on the
Corner, Edinburgh, May 2015
CLICK/DELETE (an exhibition about E-waste) Gallery on the Corner
July 2014
Gallery on the Corner (More of Kaimesworld) Edinburgh 2013
Gallery on the Corner (You are entering Kaimesworld) Edinburgh 2011
With Slide Workshop/Art City
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Old Town New Story (Millennium Exhibition at City Art Centre, 2000)
Wild Wood (toured Scotland exhibition funded by Scottish Natural
Heritage 1995 - 8)
Polish collaborations (1995 – 8)
Aboriginal art exhibition (Third Eye Centre, Glasgow - residency at
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art for Glasgow City of Culture 1990)
Lets Join Hands (international link project for Edinburgh
Commonwealth Arts Festival 1986)
Lux Europa public building window installations (with visual artist Kate
Downie) 1995/6