
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.
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Seminar ( with Ronald Jones) on morality and the arts, Ben Gurion Airport,
Tel Aviv
2005
Invited speaker, AICA (International association of Art Critics) Seminar,
Dublin.
2004
Invited speaker on contemporary art in Scotland, Entente Cordiale
Celebrations, Paris and Montpellier.
2000
Speaker at “Centre for Ideas” VCA, Australia
Invited Speaker, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1999
Speaker at Royal College of Psychiatrists, Annual Conference
1995
Invited speaker, Public Forum on "Trust" Exhibition,
Tramway, Glasgow
Speaker at Outside in the Distance', (Art
outside the Gallery), Platform Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
1993
'Elusive, Subtle & Wordless' Lecture on Intuition, GFT, Glasgow
1990 Contemporary Art Season: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
1987
Why I Choose Red, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and Smith
Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
1988
What Hope From Art in Scotland? Smith Art Gallery and
Museum
1984
Scottish Art Now, Lecture Series, Talbot Rice Arts Centre,
University of Edinburgh