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Kate Downie (born 1958) is a United States-born Scottish artist who works in painting, printmaking and drawing. She is known for her landscape painting, and her works are held by Glasgow's main public galleries. Downie was born in North Carolina in 1958, to a Scottish father and English mother.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kate Downie RSA, PPSSA )〕 She came to Scotland with her family when she was seven.〔 She studied art in Aberdeen, and worked in several countries thereafter, including the United States and Holland, but is based in Edinburgh and known for her works portraying the Scottish landscape.〔 Downie works in a range of media, including oil and acrylic painting, ink painting, collage, and lithography〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kate Downie )〕 From 2004 to 2006, Downie was President of the Society of Scottish Artists. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.〔 In the late 2000s, she created Coast Road Diaries, documenting a two-year journey around Scotland; the works formed a travelling exhibition that was critically acclaimed.〔 A member of the Royal Scottish Academy, in 2010 she travelled to China to study ink painting, returning in 2011 and again in 2013. Works resulting from these residencies were displayed at the Royal Scottish Academic and at the Royal Glasgow Institute's Kelly Gallery. In 2014, Downie was commissioned as an artist-in-residence at the Forth Road Bridge, to create an exhibition and work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the bridge's construction.〔 She described her role as conducting "an in-depth interview" with the structure, in order to gather the information and ideas to inform her work. She also climbed to the top of the structure, and spent two months working in an improvised studio directly under the bridge.〔 Described by journalist Jan Patience as "sure, deft and fearless",〔 examples of Downie's art are held in the Glasgow Museums, including figurative works, such as ''12 Minute Baby'' (1993) and urban landscapes such as ''Blue Night, Yellow Roof'' (1991).〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Downie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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