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Sam Ainsley is an artist and teacher and, until 2005, was Head of the MFA Programme at Glasgow School of Art (GSA). She has forged a remarkable career within the visual arts sector nationally and internationally. From 1985 to 1991 she taught on the Environmental Art programme at GSA before co-founding the Master of Fine Art course. Ainsley’s artwork is in a number of public and private collections nationally and internationally. She considers her work a form of 'emotional mapping' that tries to uncover correspondences and relationships between natural, (biological, geographic, geological) phenomena, the human body and the human condition.

Accolades

2021 The Muirhead Fund Purchase Prize; Royal Scottish Academy

2019 Creative Scotland Research Award (visits to Orkney and Iceland)

2018 Awarded Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) by Glasgow School of Art

2017 Inducted into 'Outstanding Women of Scotland' by Saltire Society Elected Artist; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2010 Artist Award, Pollock Krasner Foundation

2003 Appointed by Scottish Arts Council as Ambassador to the first Scottish presentation at the Venice Biennale

1995 Awarded residencies and lecture tour of Australia by Samstag Foundation, Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart

1992 Awarded six-week residency programme by Athens School of Art Delphi, Hydra, Mykonos, Rhodes

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