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Name
  
Caroline McNairn


Died
  
2010

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Caroline McNairn (16 May 1955 – 29 September 2010) was a Scottish figurative painter.

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Biography

Caroline McNairn was born in Selkirk in 1955. Her father and grandfather were also skilled painters. She studied art at Edinburgh University and then Edinburgh College of Art.

McNairn was part of a movement focused around the 369 Gallery in Edinburgh, alongside Fionna Carlisle, June Redfern, Ian Hughes, Robert MacLaurin and Gwen Hardie.

Exhibitions

  • Avenue B Gallery, New York, 1986
  • Summerhall (Edinburgh Art Festival), 2014 (posthumous)
  • Hawick Museum, 2010 (posthumous)

    • Museums and galleries

  • Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
  • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

    • References

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