Alastair R Ross

 

Alastair R Ross

Biography

Born Perth, Scotland 1941

Higher Education

1960-66  Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.
(Tutors Hugh Adam Crawford, R.S.A.,
Scott Sutherland, R.S.A., F.R.B.S.).
Also Vienna, Florence, Rome, Amsterdam and Athens on extensive travel/study abroad.
1965  Graduated D.A. (Dundee) with distinction.
1965-66  Awarded Scottish Education Department Post-Graduate Scholarship. (Commended).
1962  Awarded Dickson Prize for Sculpture.
1962  Awarded Holokrome (Dundee) Sculpture Prize and Commission.
1963  Awarded Scottish Education Department Travelling Scholarship.
1964  Awarded Royal Scottish Academy Chalmers Bursary.
1965  Awarded Royal Scottish Academy Carnegie Travelling Scholarship.
1965  Awarded Duncan of Drumfork Scholarship.
 

Teaching Appointments

1966-69  Part-time Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.
1969-2003  Full-time Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.
1969  Tutor, University of Dundee, American Summer School
1969-94  Hon. Lecturer, University of Dundee.
1991-93  Invited Tutor, School of Scottish Artists in Malta.
1994-2003  Lecturer in Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee.
1996  Guest Lecturer, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, U.S.A.
2007 Guest Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
2008 Guest Lecturer, Paisley Art Institute, Paisley
2008 Guest Lecturer, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
 

Reference Works

Debrett's "People of Today"
"Who's Who in Scotland"
"International Directory of Arts"
"Who's Who in Art"
"Whitaker's Almanack"
"R.I.A.S. Illustrated Directory"
"Directory of International Biography"
"Landscape Specification"
"Directory of Scottish Art & Architecture"
"External Works"
"Current Research in Britain"
"Catalogue of Works in the Scottish Arts Council Collection"
"The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitions 1826-1990"
"The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945"
"Journals of the Royal Society of British Sculptors"
Also entered in Scottish Arts Council I.V.A.C. Index and AXIS Index based at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Archive of Academicians, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards and Professional Memberships

1966  Elected Professional Member, Society of Portrait Sculptors.
1996  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
1967 Award Winner in Sculpture, Paris Salon Exhibition.
1968  Elected Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
1968  Awarded Medaille de Bronze, Societe des Artistes Francais.
1969  Elected Professional Member, Society of Scottish Artists.
1970  Awarded Medaille d'Argent, Societe des Artistes Francais.
1970  Elected Membre Associe, Societe des Artistes Francais.
1971  Elected Professional Member, Scottish Arts Club.
1971  Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
1972-92  Elected Scottish Representative and Member of Council, Royal Society of British Sculptors.
1972-75  Elected Member of Council, Society of Scottish Artists.
1975  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
1980  Elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.
1986-89  Member R.S.A. Alexander Nasmyth Fund Committee
1986-89  Member R.S.A. Spalding Fund Committee
1988-90  Elected Vice-President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
1989  Granted Freedom of the City of London.
1989  Awarded Sir William Gillies Bequest Fund Award of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1989, (for Art Historical Research in Vienna).
1989  Awarded the Sir Otto Beit Medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, for 1988
(Awarded for Portrait of Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Bart.).
1989  Appointed Member of the British Institute of Management.
1990-96  Member of Council of The British School at Rome.
1992  Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
1997-2005  Member, Board of Directors, Workshop and Artists' Studio Provision Scotland Ltd.
1998-2000  Dundee Institute of Architects, Architectural Awards Adjudications Panel, R.I.A.S
1999  Awarded Personal Civic Reception by the City of Dundee.
1999-2001  Member of Council, Royal Scottish Academy
2000 Publication Award, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
2001-05 Saltire Society, Arts and Crafts in Architecture Awards Adjudication Panel.
2001-to date  Member, Board of Trustees, The St Andrews Fund for Scots Heraldry.
2001-2005  Member. Board of Trustees for St. John's Kirk of Perth (R.S.A. Representative)
2003 Award Hon. Doctor of Arts degree (D.Arts) by the University of Abertay Dundee,
2004  Elected R.G.I. by the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
2005  Elected Royal Scottish Academician
2005  Elected Honorary Life Member of the Perthshire Art Association
2005-2009  Member, R.S.A. General Purposes Committee
2005-2009   Member, R.S.A. Kinross Scholarship Committee
2005-06  Sculpture Advisory Panel, Montrose Heritage Trust.
2005-06  External Assessor, J.D. Fergusson Art Awards Trust.
2005-2009  Elected Librarian of the Royal Scottish Academy
2006  Paisley Art Institute, Reid Kerr College Award for Sculpture
2006  Member, Board of Patrons, University of Abertay, Dundee Foundation.
2007 Elected Honorary Life Member Paisley Art Institute
2008 Paisley Art Institute, Reid Kerr College Award for Sculpture
2009 Assessor, Scottish Drawing Competition
2010 Paisley Art Institute, Glasgow Art Club Fellowship Award
2010 Awarded the Diploma of Paisley Art Institute (P.A.I.)
2010 Appointed Honorary Vice-President of Paisley Art Institute
2011 Admitted as Burgess of the City of Dundee