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Alexander & Susan Maris employ a variety of media to explore concepts of the 'post-urban', and the role of landscape in cultural history and myth. They live on the edge of Rannoch Moor - a deforested expanse of granite, heather and peat-bog, whose primeval topography has inspired and informed their collaborative life-work for the past thirty-five years. The Marises exhibit internationally, and their work resides in public and private collections in Europe and North America.

  

EDUCATION

  

1985-87 - Royal College of Art

 

1977-81 - Glasgow School of Art

  

EXHIBITIONS

 

2025 - REFUGIUM - The Fishing Hut

 

2025 - Siege Perilous - The Fishing Hut

 

2024 - Return of the Wolves - The Fishing Hut, Kinloch Rannoch.

 

2024 - 198th RSA Annual Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy.

 

2024 - Eclipse - The Fishing Hut, Kinloch Rannoch.

 

2023 - Scottish Landscape Awards - City Arts Centre, Edinburgh.

 

2023 - Thirty-six Views of Schiehallion - The Fishing Hut, Kinloch Rannoch.

 

2023 - + for St Bride - Dunoon Burgh Hall

 

2022 - The Pursuit of Fidelity - The Fishing Hut, Kinloch Rannoch.

 

2021 - THERAPEUTICUM 1996-2020 - The Fishing Hut, Kinloch Rannoch.

 

2021 - Towards the Water - Dunoon Burgh Hall.

 

2020 - THERAPEUTICUM - Requiem Supper - Craiganour Forest.

 

2020 - Strategy: Get Arts - 50th Anniversary Exhibition - Demarco Archive, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

 

2019 - The Well at the World's End - An Tobar, Tobermory, Mull.

 

2018 - Trace Ingredients - Inverness Museum & Art Gallery.

 

2018 - Shelter Stone - The Artist and the Mountain - Curated by Edward Summerton - Royal Scottish Academy.

 

2017 - AIR - Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy.

 

2017 - Ages of Wonder, Scotland's Art 1540 to Now - Royal Scottish Academy.

 

2017 - Shelter Stone - The Artist and the Mountain - Curated by Edward Summerton - Dundee Contemporary Arts.

 

2016 - Being in Place - WASPS Dundee.

 

2016 - Neighborhood Climate Change - Northern Spark - Northern Lights. mn.

 

2016 - Reliquary - St. John's Church, Cupar Arts Festival.

 

2015 - The Potter's Field - Lust & the Apple, Temple, Midlothian.

 

2014-15 - A Light Shines in the Darkness - Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition.

 

2014 - Still Life - HICA, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire.

 

2014 - 188th RSA Annual Exhibition: Focus on Film - Royal Scottish Academy.

 

2013 - Between the Late and Early - Royal Scottish Academy.

 

2013 - Flickering Lights - Summerhall, Edinburgh.

 

2012 - Not In The Corners - Maria Stenfors, London.

 

2011 - Night of Light - Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset.

 

2010 - 10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant Garde - RSA.

 

2010 - The Pursuit of Fidelity (a retrospective) - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

2010 - As Arranged - PS, Amsterdam.

 

2009 - You'll Have Had Your Tea - HICA, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire.

 

2009 - Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing - Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.

 

2008 - Silentium - Dilston Grove, London.

 

2008 - There is No Road - LABoral, Gijon, Asturias.

 

2007 - RSA 181st Annual Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 

2007 - Waterlog - Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery & The Collection, Lincoln.

 

2006 - The Truth in Painting & Other Propositions - Heart Gallery, Edinburgh.

 

2005 - RISK - CCA, Glasgow.

 

2005 - Street Level Open - Street Level, Glasgow.

 

2004 - 2. Internationaler Waldkunstpfad - Darmstadt.

 

2003 - Festival Times - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

2002 - Re:Mote - The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

 

2001 - Bibliomania - Internet project.

 

2000 - media_city_seoul - Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Korea.

 

2000 - A Spectre at the Feast - Real Gallery, New York.

 

1999 - Museum in Progress - Der Standard, Vienna.

 

1999 - MULTIPLES x 2 - Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.

 

1999 - THERAPEUTICUM - RAM Galleri, Oslo & SNGMA Gymnasium.

 

1999 - MATTER - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

1997 - EAST International - Norwich Gallery, Norwich.

 

1996 - MOMENTA - Lisson Gallery, London.

 

1995 - Momentary Views - Streetlevel, Glasgow.

 

1993 - Wonderful Life - Lisson Gallery, London.

  

AWARDS

 

2024 - Creative Scotland Open Fund - Metanature

 

2021 - Creative Scotland Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development - Therapeuticum +

 

2010 - Shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award - Glasgow Film Festival.

 

2006 - The Morton Award for lens-based media - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 

2003 - Shortlisted for the Archibald Campbell and Harley WS Award - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

2002 - Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award - Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

 

2001 - Shortlisted for the Archibald Campbell and Harley WS Award - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

1997 - The Richard Hough Photographic Bursary - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

1981 - The John Keppie Travel Bursary - Glasgow School of Art.

  

PUBLICATIONS

 

2021 - Creative Engagement with Ecologies of Place - Mary Modeen and Iain Biggs - Routledge

 

2020 - The Unseen Masterpiece - Ingleby

 

2017 - Shelter Stone - The Artist and the Mountain - Edward Summerton DJCAD & DCA

 

2013 - Invisible Scotland - Moray Scool of Art / DJCAD

 

2010 - The Pursuit of Fidelity (a retrospective) - Stills, Edinburgh.

 

2009 - Four Exhibitions - HICA

 

2009 - THERE IS NO ROAD: The road is made by walking - LABoral

 

2007 - WATERLOG: Journeys Around An Exhibition - Film & Video Umbrella

 

2005 - PLACE - Tacita Dean & Jeremy Millar - Thames & Hudson / Art Works

 

2003 - Friday 8 May - Alexander & Susan Maris - Morning Star / Baltic

 

2002 - Justified Sinners - Edited by Ross Birrell and Alec Finlay - Pocketbooks

 

2002 - Sculpture Matters - Issue 13 - THERAPEUTICUM - Scottish Sculpture Trust

 

2001 - The Libraries of Thought & Imagination - Edited by Alec Finlay - Pocketbooks

 

2001 - NOTHING - Graham Gussin & Ele Carpenter - August & Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

 

2000 - Travelling Light: photography, travel and visual culture - Peter D. Osborne - Manchester University Press.

  

BROADCAST

 

1995 - JOSEPH BEUYS AND ME - BBC / World of Wonder

  

COLLECTIONS

 

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.

 

LAboral. Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Asturias.

 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in Europe & North America.