Selected Exhibitions
2024

- 'Plotting: drawing as thread, touch, residue' (Group exhibition) (January) (Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen)
2023
- 'The Grays' School of Art Staff Show III' (October) (LookAgain, Aberdeen)
- 'rubbing up against the edges of experience' (Collaboration with Jake Shepherd) (April) (1-5 George St, Aberdeen)
2022
- 'Catastrophe Soup' (Solo Show) (November) (the worm& Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen)
- 'The Grays' School of Art Staff Show II' (October) (LookAgain, Aberdeen)
- 'terra incognita (as above, so below)' (MIASMA for the Wonderland Festival) (September) (LookAgain, Aberdeen)
2021
-'thriving in disturbed ground' (November) (16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow)
- 'a thing that remembers itself' (August) (Deep End, Glasgow)
2019
- 'Potbelly' (Screening) (September 20th) (Market Gallery, Glasgow)
2018
- 'Flesh and Finitude' (November) (GENerator, Dundee)
- Glasgow School of Art's Master of Letters Degree show ('Hybrid Objects / Caressing Each Other / Rubbing Limbs in the Dark') (1st - 9th September 2018) (Tontine Building, Glasgow)
- 'Limp Structures' (26th - 29th April) (25 King Street, Glasgow)
- 'Swallowed Her Agile Tongue', (with Leah Miller-Biot and Natalia Janula) (22nd - 25th February) (Crownpoint Studios, Glasgow)
2017
- 'Bitter Balanced Silky Smooth' (solo show) (7th - 16th July) (The NumberShop Gallery, Edinburgh)
- 24 Hour Window (60 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT)
- PALM, (as part of the Look Again Festival) (April) (Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen)
2016
- 'The RSA Open Exhibition 2016' (16th July - 30th August) (The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh)
- 'Drawing in Reaction' (31st March - 10th April) (Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen)
- 'ONLY THE IMPROVISATION REMAINS CONSTANT' / The 2016 Contemporary Art Graduate in Residence show (23rd March - 3rd April) (Grays School of Art, Aberdeen)
2015
- ‘FLUX’ at The Anatomy Rooms (December) (The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, Scotland)
- 'Relics of The Maker' / Studio Aperto (Open Studio) at 33OC (September) (Toffia, Italy)
- ‘Blushing Wax’ / Grays School of Art Degree Show (June) (Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland)
- ‘CXXX’ / The Contemporary Art Practise Pre-degree show, (February) (Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland)
2014
- ‘YOU RUB ME THE WRONG WAY’, with Kirsty Russell (Grays school of art, Aberdeen, Scotland)

Publications
- 'Catastrophe Soup' (with Peacock Visual Arts) (November 2022)
- Featured text in: 'Collected Intimacies' (delphinium press) (available here) (April 2022)
- Featured text in: 'SPAM002' (available
here ) (SPAM press&zine) (Feb 2020)
- Featured text in: 'Page three: in the flesh (Babestation, Glasgow) (2019)
-Featured text in:SoftSpot: Pilot (SoftSpot, Manchester) (2019)
- 'Flesh and Finitude' (Generator, Dundee) (2018)
- Romantic Viscosity (self published) (2017)
- Snacks for 'Real Men' (self published) (2016)
- Blushing Wax (self published) (2015)

Selected Talks, Projects, Awards & Residencies
- Air, Sea and Soil: DRAWING WITH PLACE residency (with the Pier Arts Center and the Museum of Loss and Renewal) (August 2023) Orkney
- Performance at Easterly Archives opening event (Emotional Forecast) (Spoken word and music) (June 2023) Easterly Archives, Aberdeen
- Innovative lecturer of the year, STAR award, Robert Gordon University 2023
- Studio Projects Residency (August 2019) Market Gallery, Glasgow
- Recipient of a grant from the Hope Scott Trust (April 2019)
- Invited curator for Assembly House's Painting Programme (
'Vapid, Languid, Limp and Lounging') (April 2019) Assembly House, Leeds
- Speaker at the 2018 NEON festival Symposium (9th November 2018) (V&A, Dundee)
-Dumfries House Residency delivered by the Royal Drawing School, (4th - 18th
November 2016) (Dumfries House, Scotland)
- Hospitalfeilds Graduate Residency, (10th - 23rd October 2016) (Hospitalfeilds, Arbroath)
- Emerging Artist Residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, (9th May - 6th June 2016) (SSW, Scotland)
- Lead and facilitated an independent drawing workshop for Grays School of Art students, (April 2016) (Grays School of Art, Aberdeen)
- Project co-ordinator for a drawing based programme for the Bethany Christian Trust, in association with Peacock Visual Art and Grays School of Art, (January 2016 – April 2016) (Aberdeen, Scotland)
- Graduate in Residence position at Grays School of Art, (September 2015 - September 2016) (Grays School of Art, Aberdeen)
- Residency at 33OC, (1st - 30th September 2015) (Toffia, Italy)
- Member of creative arts collective CC (The Collage Collective), (2013 - current), (Aberdeen based collective)
- Editioned CMYK screenprints for the 'Lily and Mim' exhibition (Organised by Smart Consultants), (2014)
- Printmaking workshop assistant to Cameron Ross within Grays School of Art, teaching young adults, (2014)



Education & Placements

- MA in the Master of Letters Fine Art Practice (Sculpture)
September 2017 - September 2018 (Glasgow School of Art)
- BA Hons first class Degree in Contemporary Art Practice
(with a specialty in Printmaking)
2011-2015 (Grays School Of Art, Aberdeen)
- Summer placement assisting in the printmaking workshop,
July- September 2014 (Peacock Visual Art Centre, Aberdeen)



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Caitlyn Holly Main
Current
Lecturer in the Contemporary Art Practice department at Grays' School of Art