b.(1995), Scotland
Jack McGarrity is an artist originally from the West of Scotland, now living and working in London. McGarrity completed his Ba at The Glasgow School of Art and then the postgraduate Drawing Year course at The Royal Drawing School. Equally concerned with both quotidian mundanity and a heightened reality McGarrity creates new narratives that explore notions of the absurd, stillness and alienation in the modern world. McGarrity’s collaged enactments present scenarios that are, at times, idiosyncratic and mordant at times undercut by some sense of sentimentality.
Education
The Royal Drawing School
2019 - 2021 The Drawing Year (MA)
The Glasgow School of Art
2015 - 2019 Fine Art (Ba), Painting & Printmaking
Grants and Awards
2026 Colstoun Arts Residency
2024 Dumfries House Residency
2021 Sir Denis Mahon Award
2019 John Kinross Award, (Three month travel scholarship to Florence)
2019 Aon Community Art Award
2018 Richard Ford Award, (Two month travel scholarship to Museo del Prado, Madrid)
Exhibitions
Solo
2026 The Gloaming, Messums, London
2023 Theatre as Studio, Studio as Theatre, Messums, London
2022 Something Happening Somewhere, The Royal Drawing School, London
2021 Emerging Talents: Jack McGarrity, Messums, Wiltshire
Group
2026 To the Wonder, Hypha Studios, London
2026 Trojan Horses, Set Vauxhall, London
2026 Five-Times-Five, Acme Glassyard Studios, London
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2025 Behind Closed Doors, Chilli Gallery, London
2025 Running Through London, Twilight Contemporary, London
2025 Summer Show, Royal Drawing School, London
2025 Recurrence, ASC Gallery, London
2025 The Other World, Chilli Gallery, London
2025 Monotypes, Messums, London
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2024 LBF at the Lake, LBF Contemporary, Muskoka
2024 Summer Show, Royal Drawing School, London
2024 Phantasmagoria, LBF Contemporary, London
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2023 Sun and Moon, Huang Contemporary, Wuhan
2023 Impressions, Subtitle Labs, London
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2021 Drawing Year: End of Year Show, The Royal Drawing School, London
2021 Open Studios, SPACE, London
2021 Best of the Drawing Year, Christies, London
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2020 Creating Connections, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow
2019 Aon Community Arts Exhibition, Leadenhall Building, London
2019 Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2019 Recount, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
2018 Something Like That?, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2017 Series 2, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
2017 The Printer is Broken, Stereo, Glasgow
Press
https://messumswiltshire.com/exhibitions/emerging-talents-exhibition-jack-mcgarrity/
https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/art-reviews-gsa-degree-shows-1415988
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/art/emerging-artists/gsa-degree-show-2019-review
https://www.aon.com/unitedkingdom/about-aon/artaward/artists.jsp
Collections
Scottish Royal Collection
British Royal Collection
Colstoun Arts Collection
The Nixon Collection