Abandoned Village, Bergosa, Spain

The abandoned village of Bergosa In summer 2023 I went solo on a 2-month self-directed residency to work in Aragon a region in northeast Spain bordering the Pyrenees. With the tiny village of Banaguas as my base, I walked out each day to work in the countryside. Working outdoors is an important part of my art practice and I often carry my materials, walking in search of remote countryside or abandoned places. I work spontaneously, with often limited materials to develop ideas quickly, responding to my surroundings.  While in Spain, with more time and better weather, my approach became more experimental…

Painting selected, VAS Now & Then exhibition, Aug 2024

Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace (Part Two) Visual Arts Scotland Centenary ShowSaturday 17 Aug – Sunday 25 Aug I’m thrilled that my painting THE FORM DOES NOT REPEAT (For Lynne) has been selected for NOW & THEN the upcoming Visual Arts Scotland exhibition. Visual Arts Scotland’s (VAS) biggest-ever exhibition will take place in historic Dalkeith Palace . Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace (Part Two) continues a year of centenary celebrations for VAS and will showcase over 540 artworks and 341 artists, making this VAS’s biggest-ever exhibition in its 100 year history. 30 x 30 is back!  The ever-popular small works by VAS…

ANNOUNCED! RSA Residencies for Scotland, May 2024

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an RSA Residency for Scotland and will be working with An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis in May 2025. My project will involve research at a croft house, and shielings on Tolsta Mohr, experimenting with contemporary painting methods  to explore personal and collective memory. Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme which enables visual artists a period of research, development and production at partner venues across Scotland. This year, thirteen artists have been awarded a total of £55,000 for residencies at partner venues across Scotland. Funded by the…

2024, This Year’s Model III, Studio 1.1, London

THIS YEAR’S MODEL IIIJun 6th – 30thStudio 1.157a Redchurch StLondon E2 7DJ I’m delighted that my painting Chotchkes, 2021, gouache on the Stornoway Gazette and White Tree, 2023, oil on panel, will both be shown at the annual member’s show This Year’s Model at Studio 1.1 in London.  Other exhibiting artists are: LEE KNOTT, MARIANNE SHORTEN, MIN ANGEL, NICKY AMIN, NICOLA MORRISON, OLIVIA IRVINE, PATRICK LEARS, PAULA MacARTHUR, PAULINE HALL, PETER ROSEMAN, RUTH CALLAND, SANDRA LANE, SARAH KNILL-JONES, SARAH PAGER, SHARON SWAINE, TRACEY DOWNING, UTE KREYMAN, VANESSA MITTER, ALAN DEDMAN, EUGENIA CUELLAR ABOUT STUDIO 1.1 studio1.1, an artist run, not for profit…

Michele Marcoux – Biography

MICHELE MARCOUX is an artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and lived in Vermont, Philadelphia, California and New York City before moving to Scotland in 1990. Michele received a BA Fine Art (cum laude) from Bennington College, Vermont, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She completed a Masters of Letters Fine Art Practice (with Distinction) at Glasgow School of Art in 2016. In the 1980’s Michele lived in New York City, in Tribeca, Harlem, the Lower East Side, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Like most artists, she has worked to support her creative practice, variously as a…