Barry McGlashan | Art SG | Singapore

Barry McGlashan was born in 1974 in Aberdeen on the North-East Coast of Scotland, he currently lives and works in Edinburgh. McGlashan studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, graduating in 1996. He taught in the painting department at Gray’s between 1998 and 2005. In 2001, McGlashan was awarded The Alastair Salvesen Scholarship through the Royal Scottish Academy. Examples of his work are held in numerous private and public collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; The Scottish Society, New York, USA; and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

In December 2024 McGlashan was elected as one of four new Academicians of the Royal Scottish Academy, alongside Claire Barclay, Ken Currie and Caroline Walker.