Norman Mcbeath Rsa

Place: Edinburgh

Born: 1952

Biography:

Norman McBeath is a Scottish photographer and printmaker. He is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. The National Portrait Galleries in London and Edinburgh have over seventy of his portraits in their collections. His work has been shown as part of exhibitions at the Leica Gallery in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He has collaborated with a number of award-winning writers and poets, including Jeanette Winterson, A. L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Paul Muldoon, Robert Crawford, and Kathleen Jamie. His collaborations with poets include Plan B with Paul Muldoon (Enitharmon Press, 2009), Simonides with Robert Crawford (Easel Press, 2011), Venice with Robert Crawford (Easel Press, 2013), The Beach with Kathleen Jamie (Easel Press, 2013) and Holy Rood with Robert Crawford ( Easel Press 2017 ). Simonides was shown at Yale University (2012) and the Poetry Foundation, Chicago (2013). He was recently awarded a Fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo (2015) and subsequently invited to show work from the Fellowship in the exhibition Between the Land and the Sea (2016) at the Keeper’s House, Royal Academy, London. In 2019 the Scottish National Portrait Gallery held a major exhibition (25th May - 27th October) of The Long Look , a collaboration with Audrey Grant, which explored the art of portraiture beyond the conventional artist and sitter relationship. His latest work is a limited edition boxed set, Perdendosi, a collaboration with Edmund de Waal. The twenty-four leaf set is made ....