Senior Lecturer, School of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art
Founder and former Head
of Master of Fine Art programme, The Glasgow School of Art.
Home: + 44 (0) 141 339 6035
Mobile: + 44 (0) 0793 2857 946
E-mail: s.ainsley@gsa.ac.uk
2006
Free Association, published to coincide with Glasgow
International (curator, Francis Mckee) Editor, Malcolm Dickson.
Sam Ainsley, David Harding, Sandy Moffat; A conversation.
2003
The Red Room, publication with essay by John Calcutt, in connection
with exhibition at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
1999-2000
Why I choose Red, essay for 4th Dimension, Vol. 2 Glasgow 1999
The Red Space, publication with essay by Francis McKee, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
1998
Mapping the Difference, part two, text by Cindy Morgan and Nadia Argyropoulou,
published by Hellenic American Union, Athens.
1996
Full Fathom Five, Text by John Calcutt, Hopkins Gallery, Ohio University,
Columbus, U.S.A.
Mapping the Difference, part one, Text by Francis McKee and Cindy Morgan.
Women's Art at NewHall, (20th C. collection of Women’s Art) Text by
Marina Warner, Griselda Pollock.
1995
The Red Wall: Text by Jane Lee. X/Y Gallery, Nepean University, Sydney
and Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia.
1994
Scottish Art in the Twentieth Century. Duncan MacMillan Mainstream Publishing
1994
Report on Power and Responsibility-; Art Institutions
and Cultural Change published in Variant magazine. Vol. 16 Spring 94
1993
Work illustrated in E.A.R.I. edited by John Hyatt and Maud Sulter (University
of Manchester Press)
1992
Festival Fourteen: Scottish Women Artists, Dunfermline Art Gallery and
Museum. Essay by Cordelia Oliver
1981-1982
Contemporary Abstraction, A survey of work by younger
Scottish Artists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 6 June- 4 July. Introductory essay
by Colin Booth. 1 ill, biography
1981-1982
Scottish Young Contemporaries, Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh
1989-90
Scottish Art Since 1900. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh and Barbican Gallery, London. Essay by Richard Calvocoressi and
Keith Hartley. Biographies and Catalogue, Colour and b/w illustrations.
1989
Visiting Artists, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art,
USA, 20 January-19 February. Artist's statement, biography.
Red Mare, Newcastle Arts Centre, 26 May-17 June and touring. Essay by Roberta
McGrath, 1 ill, Artist's statement, biography.
1988
The Subversive Stitch, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester and Touring.
Essay by Pennina Barnet, illustrated.
1987
Why I Choose Red, Sam Ainsley, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 17 January-14
February and Touring. 4 colour and 18 black and white ills. Essay by Dr Stephanie
Brown, biography
The Vigorous Imagination- New Scottish Art, Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art, Edinburgh, 9 August-25 October. 3 ills, essays by Keith Hartley,
Clare Henry, Henry Meyrick Hughes and Anthony Jones.
Smith Biennial, Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling 17 September-18 October.
Essay by Sarah Kent, biography.
1986
The Eye of the Storm, Smith Art Gallery, Stirling
1979
Sam Ainsley, Colin Booth, Mark Harris, Talbot Rice Arts Centre, Edinburgh