Craigie Aitchison was born in Edinburgh in 1926. He started training to become a lawyer but abandoned this career and entered the Slade School of Art in 1952.
Aitchison’s first one man show was in 1959. Since then he has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom, and overseas in locations as diverse as Tokyo (1969), Delhi (1984) and Jerusalem (1992). In 1953, during his second year at the Slade, he won the prize for the best still life and two years later he was awarded the British Council Italian Government Scholarship to Rome.
In the intervening years he has received many awards, including the Jerwood Prize in 1994. A solo exhibition of his work was held at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow in 1996. In 1998 he completed a commission for Liverpool Cathedral. Since 2000, Craigie has had several solo shows, including three in one year in 2008, one of which was in Tokyo, in the Paul Smith ‘Space’ Gallery.
Craigie Aitchsion was elected on to the RA in 1988 and was made a CBE in 1999.
He lives and works in London.
“I wished to be part of 'Inspired' after being told the reasons for the exhibition. I loved being in Arran - it was the happiest time of my childhood and I still have an affinity with the island”.
Craigie Aitchison
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