Elected ARE in 2021
Meg Buick is a painter and printmaker based in Edinburgh. Her images emerge through an ongoing conversation between drawing, painting and printmaking, and as a printmaker she seeks the processes which offer the most ephemeral and painterly marks - lithography and aquatint etching. Her imagery is informed from drawings made from life, dreams, and a deep connection with the timeless human act of painting. Stylistic references include ancient frescos, prehistoric cave art, paintings from the early Italian Gothic and Renaissance eras, folk art, and 20th-century European paintings.
Meg completed a Post-Graduate in Drawing at The Royal Drawing School in 2013. Meg was awarded The Chairman’s First prize for her work on the Drawing Year, and went on to be selected for the Rome RBA Scholarship and The Richard Ford Travel Award. In 2018 Flowers Gallery included her in its long-running West End exhibition programme "Artist of the Day", where works have been selected by leading contemporary artists since 1983. Her work has been selected for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, and for an exhibition at Christies celebrating the legacy of Picasso. She has recently been awarded funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust to develop her work in etching and complete an MA at Edinburgh College of Art.