Elizabeth Blackadder lives and works in Edinburgh. Her work is housed in over 40 public collections. Shehas participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world.

Dateline:

• 1949-54: Studies at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art

• 1954: Awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship by the Royal Scottish Academy. Goes to southern Europe. Receives an Andrew Grant Post-Graduate Scholarship

• 1955: Awarded another Travelling Scholarship. Goes to Italy

• 1956: Marries the painter, John Houston

• 1959: Solo exhibition at 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

• 1962: Receives the Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy

• 1962-86: Lectures in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art

• 1972: Made Member of the Royal Scottish Academy

• 1976: Elected a Royal Academician

• 1983: Receives the Pimms Award for Work on Paper (Royal Academy). Made a Member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts

• 1988: Joint-winner of the Royal Academy’s Watercolour Foundation Award

• 1990: Solo exhibition at Abbot Hall, Kendal

• 1991: Solo exhibition at the Mercury Gallery, London

• 1992: Solo exhibition at the DLI Museum, Durham

• 1993: Solo exhibitions at the Glasgow Print Studio and the Mercury Gallery, London

• 1994: Solo exhibition at the The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition

• 1996: Solo exhibition at the Mercury Gallery, London

• 1998: Solo exhibitions at the Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott, Edinburgh; Mercury Gallery, London; Glasgow Print Studio

• 1999: Solo exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

• 2000: Solo exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh

• 2001: Made Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland

• 2002: Solo exhibition at the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

• 2004: Solo exhibition at Browse and Darby, London

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