Shona Kinloch (born 1962) is a Scottish artist based in East Kilbride who specialises in sculpture.
Education
Kinloch received a Bachelor of Arts with honours in Fine Art (Sculpture) from the Glasgow School of Art in 1984, followed by Post Graduate Study (Sculpture) in 1985. In 1986, the Glasgow School of Art sponsored Kinloch to travel for three months in the Middle East. Her husband Gary Anderson is also an artist who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1984.
Artwork
Kinloch is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and in 2009 was elected an RGI at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. She often works in bronze, creating figurative works of people and animals for both public and private commissions. She has exhibited widely, including at Cyril Gerber Fine Art (September–October 1990), Ewan Mundy Fine Art (April 2002), The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (June 2002), and The Wade Gallery. She also has public works on five different Royal Caribbean cruise liners.
One of Kinloch's Glasgow Dogs formed part of the bequest made by Dr Helen Cargill Thompson to the University of Strathclyde in 2000.
Kinloch's sculpture The Twa Dogs (1995) based on the Robert Burns poem of the same name stands in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire town centre near a statue by Alexander Stoddart of Robert Burns and local printer John Wilson who published Burns' first collection: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786. Another one of her sculptures called Kilmarnock Swimmer stands on King Street accompanied by smaller swimmers diving off bins which were created to represent the Kilmarnock Water that flows below the street.
In 2013, Kinloch undertook a commemorative project with artist Margaret Gilbertson to turn the old foundations of Canberra Primary School in East Kilbride into pieces of art to raise money for school funds.
Kinloch has worked with students from Irvine Royal Academy, Clydeview Academy and St Columba's High as part of Art UK's 'Masterpieces in Schools' project.
Public works
Seven Glasgow Dogs (1988), Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow Thinking of Bella (1990), Italian Centre, Glasgow As the Crow Flies (1990), Garnethill Lighting Project, Glasgow. Note: This sculpture was destroyed in July 2002. Chookie Birdies (1993), Garnethill Lighting Project, Glasgow Fission (1993), British Energy, East Kilbride Four Twins (1994), Foregate Square, Kilmarnock Kilmarnock Swimmers (1995), King Street, Kilmarnock Twa Dogs (1995), The Cross, Kilmarnock Binmen (1995), King Street, Kilmarnock Charming (1996), The Village, East Kilbride A Leith Walk (1996), Elm Row, Edinburgh See Dogs, See Gulls (1996), Irvine In Pursuit Of . . . (1996), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Bronzefish Bowl (1997), St Francis Friary, Glasgow The Sock (1998), Market Square, Loughborough The Square Stars (1998), Hamilton Town Square Seagulls (1999), Morecambe As Proud as a... (2000), Princes Square, Glasgow Fetch (2000), Tattenhall, Cheshire Chicken Crossing (2001), Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh The Seagull Has Landed (2002) and Birdies (2002), Brilliance of the Seas II, cruise liner Three Craws (2002), Eskbank Eagle of Perth III (2002), Perth, Scotland
Awards
John and Annie Lawrie Bequest (1985) Millie and Benno Schotz Award, RGI (1985) Civic Trust Award (Italian Centre) (1991) Saltire Society Art in Architecture Award (1992) Diploma of Excellence (Italian Centre), The Scottish Civic Trust Awards Scheme (1992) Civic Trust, Centre Vision Award (Kilmarnock Town Centre) (1997) Civic Trust Award Commendation (Leith Walk, Elm Row & London Roundabout) (1998) The Association of Landscape Industries Sculpture Award (1999)
References
External links
Selected artworks by Shona Kinloch on the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts website