Sculptor and artist Richard Goldsworthy (b. 1995, Macclesfield UK) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Sculpture in 2019. During his studies, Richard was awarded the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award which he used for a study trip to South Korea. Richard has exhibited regularly since graduating in both group and solo exhibitions. Since July 2021 he now lives and works at Marchmont House Studios, Berwickshire.
Exhibitions:
Jun 2022 Second Nature WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
May 2022 Inception II Art Exhibition Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh
Mar 2022 Stand 61 Borders Art Fair, Kelso, The Scottish Borders
Feb 2022 Into The Woods Spring Cheltenham, Cheltenham
Dec 2021 Hightlight Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh (solo show)
Apr 2021 In The Grain The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Apr 2021 195th Annual Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Mar 2021 Latitudes Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
July 2020 Wood, Metal & Fire The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (solo show)
Nov 2019 Graduate in Focus Edinburgh Art Fair 2019, Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Nov 2019 Zeitgeist 108 Fine Art, Harrogate
2020-2021 Saatchi Art Online
Sept 2019 Four Minds Two Generations 31 Savile Row, Mayfair, London
June 2019 Degree Show Edinburgh College of Art
Mar 2019 Tacit Edinburgh College of Art
Feb 2019 Heartwood Edinburgh College of Art
Residencies:
May 2021 Studio Cottage, Marchmont House, Berwickshire
April 2018 Micro residency at Hospitalfields, Arbroath
Awards:
Apr 2021 WASPS Award for ‘Darkness in the Light’ (RSA 195th Annual Exhibition)
Wasps Artists Studios | RSA Annual Exhibition Wasps Award 2021 (waspsstudios.org.uk)
Nov 2020 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2021
Sept 2019 Named one of Saatchi Art's ‘Rising Stars’
May 2019 Awarded the Royal Scottish Academy Barns-Graham Travel Award
April 2019 Shortlisted for the Astaire Prize
Collections:
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh - ‘Palace Walls’
NHS Lothian Collection, Scotland - ‘Heartwood’
Commissions:
Mar 2021 Private client. Small scale sculpture in style of ‘Identity’
Bibliography:
Duncan Macmillan, ‘Review of Latitudes exhibition at the RSA’, The Scotsman, 29 January 2021
Susan Mansfield, ‘Review of ECA degree show’, The List, 7 June 2019:
Front Page Feature, ‘Review of micro residency at Hospitalfields, Arbroath’, Your Arbroath, July 2018
Education:
June 2019 2:1 BA Hons in Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
