Selected Exhibitions
Solo & 2 Person
Lesley Punton & Laurie Clark - 2 person show at PostROOM, London, 28 April - 26 May 2022
Below, the rocks plunged into darkness - Studio Pavilion at the House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, (solo) May - July 2018
Back to the Things Themselves - Lesley Punton & Judy Spark, The Briggait, Gi Festival, Glasgow, April - May 2012
Lesley Punton - East Kilbride Art Centre, East Kilbride, Scotland, (solo) July/Aug 2008
New Work - R O O M, Waterson Street, London, exhibition of silverpoint drawings, (solo) April-May 2008
Some Mountains in Scotland - 511 Gallery, New York City, (solo) June - July 2006
Lesley Punton & Olwen Shone - R O O M, Bristol, England, May - June 2004
New Paintings - Miller/Geisler Gallery, New York City, (solo) June - August 2003
New Work - Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, (solo) September - October 2001
Where deer sleep - Aberdeen Art Gallery (solo, commissioned for Fotofeis '95) Oct - Nov 1995*
Group
Upcoming: Group show at Ordos Art Museum - Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, Spring 2024
Sharing a View: Contemporary Art from Glasgow - Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 23 Oct 2020 - 7 Nov 2020, touring to: The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 20th Nov – 4th Dec 2020 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, 29th Dec 2020 - 28th Jan 2021
Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories & Transformation - (GSA Reading Landscape research group exhibition)The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 25 Jan-22 March 2020
GSA; Then & Now - online lockdown exhibition, https://www.gsathenandnow.com/ (now ended/URL no longer live) 7 May – 6 July 2020
Black & White - 511 Gallery, 252 Seventh Avenue, Suite 12J, New York, NY, USA, 7 April - 1 June 2016
ROOM Collaborators 4 - ROAMING ROOM, London, 4 - 28 October, 2015
Learning to Draw - Drawing to learn - The Fleming Collection, London, 3 Sep - 9 Oct 2013
Works on (with) Paper - 511 Gallery, New York City, 5th Dec 2012 - 31st Jan 2013
Another R O O M - 30 Manchester Street, Marylebone, London, Inaugural show 10th Oct - 24 Nov 2012
R O O M Collaborators 3 - R O O M, London, 28 March-21 April 2012
Vault Art Glasgow - with Lapland, The Briggait, Glasgow, September 2011
The Question of Mountains - 511 Gallery Lake Placid, March - April 2010
Northern Terrain - Gallery North Project Space, University of Northumbria, June - July 2009
Room Collaborators - ROOM, London: March - April 2009
Science and Nature - 511 Gallery, Lake Placid, USA : April - May 2009
Marking The Terrain - Mackintosh Museum - Glasgow School of Art, Oct - Nov 2008 Works on Paper, 511 Gallery, Lake Placid, Oct - Dec 2008
Less is More - 511 Gallery, New York City, Nov - Dec 2007
Zoo Art Fair - with R O O M, Burlington Gardens, London, October 2007
Mountain - 511 Gallery, Lake Placid USA, July - August 2007
R O O M Limited editions 2 - R O O M Bristol, and R O O M T O O, London, Oct - Dec 2006
if it didn't exist you'd have to invent it - a partial Showroom history - The Showroom, London, April - May 2006
Limited Editions - R O O M Bristol, and R O O M T O O, London, November - December 2005
Flower of the West - Tramway, Glasgow, January 2005, touring to Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist, April - May 2005, and An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, June - July 2005,
Images Of Time and Place : Contemporary Views of Landscape - Wayne State University, Michigan USA, March 2005
Gallery Artists - 511 Gallery, New York City, June - July 2004
Images Of Time and Place : Contemporary Views of Landscape - Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York City, (curated by Susan Hoeltzel & Nina Castelli Sundell) Jan - May 2004
Gallery Artists - Miller Geisler Gallery, New York City, August - September 2003
Small Change - Kelly Gallery, Glasgow: June - July 2001
Axis Artists Choice - Axis Web Site, http:www.lmu.ac.uk/ces/axis ; July - October 1998
Lapplands Konstnarskoloni - Gallivare & Malmberget Museum, Gallivare, Sweden; Sept. 1997 (exhibitor & guest cuator)
Street Level Open - Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow; Sept. - Oct. 1996
Shadows in the Water - Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Nov. - Dec. 1995 (Fotofeis touring exhibition) *then to Cooper Gallery, Dundee; April - May 1996*
Swarm - Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery, touring to various sites around Scotland; June 1995 - Jan. 1996*
Words! (don't stand on trifles) - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Feb - March 1995, touring to Fringe Gallery, Glasgow; Sept. 1995*
New Art in Scotland - (edited version), Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Jan. - Feb.1995
Resourceful Women - Iris photography resource at Flaxman Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Sept. 1994
New Art in Scotland - Part 1 - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow; Sept. - Oct. 1994*
Fotodiffusione '94 - Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin; July 1994*
Signals - Contact Gallery, Edinburgh, Oct. 1994
Revisions - Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich; (curated by Ulrich Pohlmann), June - July 1994*
Dirty Holes - Modern Art, London; (curated by Giorgio Sadotti), Feb - March 1994*
IIII - Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow; May - June 1994
Fuse - #3 Atlantic Quay (temporary exhibition space), Glasgow; Nov - Dec 1993*
Home & Away - Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow; June - July 1993
Hit & Run - 50 Tufton Street, London; (exhibition in temporary space curated by Graham Gussin) Nov. 1992
Love at First Sight - The Showroom, London; Sept - Oct 1992
Salon Glasgow - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow; June - July 1992
Invisible Cities - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Feb. 1992*
Speed - Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; June 1991
(*denotes catalogue produced)
Publications & Reviews
Review of the exhibition Below, the rocks plunged into darkness, by Frank McElhinney, June 2018, Writing on Scottish Photography
Lesley Punton : Upland Birds - artist book, Published by Shoebox, July 2016 (ISBN 978-0- 9935996-0-6)
Future Now - The publication featuring artists shortlisted for the 2016 Aesthetica Art Prize, UK. Spring 2016
Photography in the British Classroom - by Yining He, interviewing Lesley Punton. This publication looks at recent British photographic education through interviews with teachers and educators. The book is published as part of The Coastline Series by Chinese publisher Nationality Photographic Art Publishing House, Beijing, 2016
Visual/bind - Issue No 1. Australia, Essay by David Watson, Walking as Knowing on the work of Lesley Punton, October 2015, (ISBN 0 9578366 7 8)
Lesley Punton - 8 Ardtornish flowers, artist book, Published by Shoebox, July 2014
Lesley Punton - Mountains without end, artist book/monograph, with commissioned essays from Thomas A Clark, (Scotland), Dr David Watson (Australia), and contributions from Alec Finlay (Scotland), and an introduction from Sandie Macrae. Published by ROOMBOOKS, London, Sept/Oct 2013, (ISBN 978 0 95499 156 2)
Back to the things themselves - interview with Magdalena Chau in the Daily Serving, San Fransisco, http://dailyserving.com/2012/05/back-to-the-things-themselves/ May 2012
Art Monthly, May 2009, Issue No 326, Review of "Collaborators" by Larne Abse Gogarty, (ISSN 0142 6702)
Next Level, London, No. 12, October 2007 (ISSN 1476-4369)
The Showroom Annual 2005/6, The Showroom London, (ISBN 0 9542362 5 4)
Flower of the West, produced by An Lochran to accompany exhibition and concert; May 2005
Flash Art International, review by Judith Finlay of where deer sleep, Vol.XXIX #187, March/April 1996 edition, (ISSN 0394 1493)
Fotofeis '95, published by Fotofeis; Oct. 1995 (ISBN 09521396 2 6)
Shadows on the Water, exhibition catalogue published by Fotofeis; Nov 1995 (ISBN 0 9521396 1 8)
Swarm, Travelling Gallery exhibition catalogue published by SAC; June 1995 (ISBN 1 85119 0732)
Portfolio ~ The Catalogue of Contemporary British Photography, published by Portfolio, Edinburgh; Issue 20/ Dec 1994, (ISSN 1354 4446)
New Art in Scotland, exhibition catalogue published by the Centre for Contemporary Art - CCA; Nov. 1994 (ISBN 1 873331 10 X)
Revisions - Zeitgennossische Fotografie aus Schottland, exhibition catalogue published by Nazraeli Press; June 1994 (ISBN 3 923922 25 6)
Dirty Holes, 10 minute audio tape catalogue published by Modern Art & Orangebox; Feb. 1994
Fuse, folio of postcards produced by Community Industry, Glasgow; Nov. 1993
Invisible Cities, exhibition catalogue published by The Fruitmarket Gallery & MA Fine Art GSA; Feb. 1992
Artist Residencies & Conferences
A Living Land: Landscape, Place and Care : Symposium Presentation of Below, the rocks plunged into darkness, co-hosted by Glasgow School of Art & University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, November 2023
The Bothy Project : Artist residency at Inshriach Bothy, Cairngorms, Scotland, March 2014,
Artists residency in collaboration with Jim Hamlyn at Sydney College of Art, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2011
Experiments in Situated Knowledge - conference paper delivered at National Institute of Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, August 17th - 20th 2011. Co-authored with Jim Hamlyn
Artist Residency at Lapplands Konstnarskoloni, Gallivare, Lapland, Sweden; September 1997
Awards & Grants
Glasgow School of Art research award to assist in the making of mountains without end, artist book/monograph published by ROOMBOOKS, London, (ISBN 978-0-9549915-6-2) Sept 2013
Glasgow City Council grant to assist in the presentation of new work for exhibition at ROOM, Bristol, England, April 2004
British Council travel award to attend opening of solo show at Miller/Geisler Gallery, New York, July 2003
Scottish Arts Council (SAC) Award (small assistance grant) for production costs for a solo exhibition at Miller/Geisler, New York; July 2003
Research Fund award from The Glasgow School of Art to assist in the production costs for a solo show New Work at Intermedia, Glasgow, September 2001.
Scottish Arts Council Award (small assistance grant) to complete the photographic series Badlands; April 2001
Scottish Arts Council Award (small assistance grant) to attend Lapplands Konstnarskoloni, Sweden; September 1997
Scottish Arts Council Award (small assistance grant) to assist in the creation of a new body of work; May 1996
Fotofeis Award/artists commission to make where deer sleep, solo exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Oct. 1995
Scottish Arts Council award (small assistance grant) to make work for Revisions, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich; May 1994
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; John Kinross Scholarship to Florence; July - Sept. 1990
Royal Academy, London; David Murray Memorial Travelling Scholarship; Aug.1989
Employment
Head of Fine Art Photography, The Glasgow School of Art, July 2013 - present
Full time lecturer in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art Sept 2000 - June 2013
Full-time lecturer in Photography at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Sept 1998 - Sept 2000
Education & Qualifications
PGCert Learning & Teaching, (Distinction), University of the Arts, London, 2010
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, March 2003 - Present
MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art; 1990 - 1992
BA (Hons.) Fine Art (1st Class): Dept. of Drawing & Painting, Glasgow School of Art; 1986 - 1990