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2014-15
Oxgangs and Beyond

In early 2014 My partner Catharine Davison and I moved to Oxgangs where we converted the garage into a studio. Oxgangs is  situated between the Pentland Hills, The Braid Hills, Blackford Hill, Firhill and Craiglockhart hills and these vistas (plus a holiday to Abruzzo Italy) of houses, hills, gardens and water have fueled my obsessive visual meanderings of vast spaces, some real and some invented. A new preoccupation placing sci-fi characters from the 1960s and 70s just seem to make sense.

Robbie Bushe is represented by the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh.

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2012-2013
Mergers and Monopolies

In August 2011, Edinburgh College of Art was merged with the University of Edinburgh. What this meant for me was that the short courses department I coordinated at ECA was closed and its course programme were brought under management of University. This was a long and painful process where histories, legacies and procedures clashed. This subject became the catalyst of an outpouring of manic drawings as ideas developed and changed my approach to picture making.

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2009-2011
Fred

My father Fred died in May 2009. Fred Bushe OBE, RSA was at the forefront of modernist sculpture and set up the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire in the late 1970s. Fred’s ambition was to create a space where anyone, whether professional, a student or an amateur could make large scale sculpture within a supportive collaborative environment. But he was mostly my Dad and he had his demons. It took me until late 2009 to process how to deal with the loss and his presence and form started to appear in my drawings and paintings; a series of reimagined pictorial conversations between myself and my father.

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2007-2008
Edinburgh

In February 2007, I returned to live in Edinburgh and work at Edinburgh College of Art. It was an opportunity for me to return to Edinburgh domestic drama after over 15 years away.
I lived in a wonderful Georgian converted townhouse flat in Leith and was the subject and inspiration for most of the work during this time.

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2005-2006
Oxford

I started lecturing part time at Oxford Brookes University in 2005 and also rented a studio space at Magdalen Road Studios and proceeded to paint every evening, weekend and day off. In early 2006 I worked on a new series of painting for the Sarah Wiseman Gallery based on my meanderings around Oxford and its iconic canals, university buildings and quiet and polite societies and cultures.

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1999-2003
Chichester

In 1999 I became Head of Fine Art at University College Chichester. I oversaw a new build for fine art, underwent a major quality assurance inspection and rewrote of the curriculum – but made virtually no art. Chichester is a wealthy city set between the beautiful South Downs and the English seaside coast. It is home to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Festival Theatre and close to Goodwood Sculpture Park – so lots going on and it was an important experience. Ultimately, it was not the place for me and I left Chichester in 2003.

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1993-1999
Aberdeen

In 1993, I became a full time painting lecturer at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. A new lyricism and use of colour emerged and I started to make work with more pathos and myth. My second solo show at the Scottish Gallery in 1994 was made up of large scale oils and small watercolours. Inevitably I became more embroiled in institutional procedures and it became harder to focus on my painting and I made work in spurts.

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1992
USA

In 1992, I travelled with the artist John Brown, across the United States using a Delta Airlines month pass which took us to (via hire cars) New York, New Orleans, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Washington State. Living the modern road movie, this trip of a lifetime enabled us record our experiences and research and make a body of new work.

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