PETER DAVIS RSW
An artist based in the Shetland Islands
Exhibition History
Solo exhibitions
2024 Borrowing Days, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2023 Kwikn, Kilmorack Gallery, inverness-shire
2023 Clear Sight, Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum, Lerwick
2022 Ascending Light, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2020 A Sense of Place, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2020 Between Earth and Sky, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Stillness of Motion, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh (top right)
2018 Small Paintings Old Haa, Burravoe, Yell, Shetland
2016 Elemental, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland (middle right)
2014 Old Haa, Burravoe, Yell, Shetland
2013 Of Time and Water, Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum,Lerwick,
Shetland (bottom right)
2011 What I did on my holidays, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2008 The Crossing of Paths, Vaila Fine Art, Lerwick, Shetland
2005 Rainforest, Vaila Fine Art, Lerwick, Shetland
2004 Negative Beauty, Shetland Museum Gallery, Lerwick
2003 Water Colour, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2002 New Paintings, Vaila Fine Art, Lerwick, Shetland
2001 Wash Days, travelling exhibition, Shetland Arts Trust
1999 Deconstructing Arcadia (new work), Shetland Museum Gallery, Lerwick
1998 Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel, Netherlands
1995 Skywater, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
1994 New paintings, Black Pig Gallery, Kirkwall, Orkney
1990 Northern Light, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
1988 Recent work, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
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Group exhibitions
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2024 Strathearn Gallery, Winter Exhibition
2024 Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, Mixed Winter Exhibition
2024 Celebrating RSW Artists 2024, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Perthshire
2024 Squaring up, Aberdeen Artists Society Exhibition Gallery Heinzel (Prizewinner)
2024 Return of the Native, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2024 Pittenweem Arts Festival. Pittenweem, Fife
2024 30th Birthday Exhibition, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Perthshire
2024 Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2024 Ship of Fools Gallery, Kirkwall, Orkney
2024 Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland
2024 FabrianoInAcquarello, Bologna, Italy (representing Scotland with RSW)
2024 RWS Open 2024, Bankside Gallery, London
2024 RSW 143rd Annual Open Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
2023 The Miniaturist Gallery, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2023 Borrowed Land, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2023 Mixed Summer & Winter Exhibitions, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2023 Ship of Fools Gallery, Kirkwall, Orkney (Summmer and Winter)
2023 Borders Art Fair, Kelso (Birch Tree Gallery)
2023 142nd RSW Annual Open Exhibition (Prizewinner- John Busby Award)
2022 'It is written that snow is white' Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2022 The Northern Isles Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2022 Aberdeen Artists Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
2022 Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland
2022 Awakening, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2021 On a Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 The Room, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
2021 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff
2021 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2021 Aberdeen Artist Society Online Summer Exhibition, Prizewinner
2021 Scottish Watercolour, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2020 Captured Elements Gallery Q, Dundee
2020 Coming Home Aberdeen Artists Society (online) Prizewinner
2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2020 Brightening Up Winter, Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Perthshire
2019 On a Small Scale, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2019 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2019 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2019 Stillness & Flow, An Talla Solais, Ullapool (with Susan Macintosh)
2019 Group show - Gallery Q, Dundee
2018 Winter Exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2018 Lidded Containers & Landscapes, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 Mixed Winter Exhibition - Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2018 Group show - Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2018 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Q - Dundee
2017 Winter Exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2017 On a Small Scale, Christmas show, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2017 Mixed Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2017 RSW 136th Open Annual Winter Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
2016 Mixed Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2016 The Sea, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2016 Spring/Summer 2016, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2015 RSW 135th Open Annual Winter Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh
2015 Common Ground, Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum
2015 Winter Exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2015 Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2015 Northern Light - Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly, Inverness-shire
2014 Winter Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2014 Winter Exhibition, Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness-shire
2014 20:20, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2014 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen
2013 Numbers, Veer North, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2009 Diaspora, Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland (bottom right)
2008 Crossing Waater ,Veer North, Denmark & Shetland
2004 Veer North, Shetland Museum Gallery, Lerwick
2004 Veer North, Veers West, Scalloway Woollen Mill, Scalloway
2003 The Art Store, Dublin, Ireland
2002 Spring Exhibition, Gold Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 De Reis van de Steen, Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel,
Netherlands / Bonhoga Gallery
1999 Summer Exhibition, Hantsholm Art Gallery, Denmark
1998 Beyond Boundaries, Galerie FortE, Nijmegen, Netherlands
1997 Christmas exhibition, Galerie Siverts, Bergen, Norway
1996 Island Artists, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews
1995 Summer exhibition, Collins Gallery, Glasgow
1992 Fifteen Orkney Artists, Smith's Gallery, London
1992 Inaugural Show, Gallery 41, Edinbugh
1991 Davis/Welsby/Muir, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
1990 Five thousand years of Orkney Art, Pier Arts Centre, Stomness
Exhibition image: Elemental, Bonhoga Gallery 2016
Exhibition image: Of Time and Water, Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum 2013
Exhibition image: Stillness of Motion, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh Jan-February 2019