Frank Waterton

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Bio
Frank Waterton is an artist based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Grounded in a material response to the natural world, his work addresses themes of movement through space and place. His work acts as a human response to the natural world and is concerned with the relationship between land and human engagement both to and within it, through its built environments, and its interactions with the materiality of wild or natural spaces. Centred on the act of walking, his work engages with the act of journeying through landscapes, exploring the material essence of place and the durational act of movement in location.

In his sculptural works, he creates objects made from organic or natural materials which explore themes of entropy and decay - as they expire over time - but also of renewal and deep time, as they grow and display permanence through plant, rock and soil samples involved within the work.

Education
Glasgow School of Art
Master of Fine Art (2026) - Distinction

University of Hertfordshire
BA (Hons) Model Design (Special Effects) (2018) - 2:1

University of the Arts London, Reigate School of Art
Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Contemporary Media (2015) - Merit

CONTACT

All work and images © Frank Waterton 2026

Exhibitions and Festivals
UPCOMING
2027 - „Matter“ , Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition (Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh)

2026 - Glasgow Art Car Boot Sale, Nov. 7 - 8 (Patricia Fleming Gallery, The Briggait, Glasgow)

PAST
2026 - Mud, People, Shovel Heroes (Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Bourdon Building, Glasgow)

2026 - Index 2.0: Text as Form (Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Bourdon Building, Glasgow)

2026 - MFA Degree Show (Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building, Glasgow)

2026 - Salon des Absolutions (Annex Gallery, Glasgow)

2026 - Rewild at Heart I (Post Complex Gallery, Glasgow)

2025 - The Thread That Pulls, Visual Arts Scotland Biennial (National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh)

2025 - Index (Glasgow School of Art Library, Glasgow)

2025 - Sensing City, Mapping Space, Archifringe (Woodlands Community Meeting Room, Glasgow)

2025 - Never Go Out! (SWG3, Glasgow)

2025 - Comma, MFA Interim Show (Glue Factory, Glasgow)

2025 - Work in Progress, GSA Gallery Society (Strange Field, Glasgow)

2024 - Art Auction for Palestine, Art Auction Glasgow (Common Guild, Glasgow)

2024 - Deep Time, Fringe Arts Bath (Newark Works, Bath, North and East Somerset)

2024 - Glimmers (New House Art Space, Guildford, Surrey)

2024 - Art and the Antiquaries (Society of Antiquaries of London)

2023 - Phantasmagoria (Society of Antiquaries of London, London)

2023 - In Dreams (New House Art Space, Guildford, Surrey)

2023 - A Basic Unit of Reality, Fringe Arts Bath (Newark Works, Bath, North and East Somerset)

2022 - Letchworth Open (Broadway Gallery, Hertfordshire)

2018 - University of Hertfordshire Degree Show (School of Creative Arts, Hertfordshire)

2015 - Reigate School of Art Diploma Show (Reigate, Surrey)

Workshops and Curation

2025 - Sensing City, Mapping Space, Archifringe (Woodlands Community Meeting Room, Glasgow)

2024 - Deep Time, Fringe Arts Bath (Newark Works, Bath, North and East Somerset)

2024 - Art and the Antiquaries (Society of Antiquaries of London)

2023 - Rituals of Power Exhibition (Society of Antiquaries of London, London)

2022 - Antiquaries and the Occult Exhibition (Society of Antiquaries of London, London)

2022 - Printmaking and the Antiquaries (Society of Antiquaries of London, London)

2019 - Friday Late: Anthropocene, Forgotten Grounds (National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

2019 - Drawing Inspiration: Zoological Illustration (National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Publications

2026 - Artist Interview, Collections of Collections, vol. 1, ed. Bjorn Blakstad (July 2026)

2026 - The Skinny Magazine, Emily Weaver (June 2026)

2026 - Rewild at Heart I Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Serena Zena (Post Complex Gallery, 2026)

2024 - 'Art and the Antiquaries', British Archaeology Magazine, no. 127 (July/August 2024)

2024 - Glimmers Exhibition Catalogue (New House Art Gallery, 2024)

2023 - A Basic Unit of Reality Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Dr Eloise Govier (Fringe Arts Bath, 2023)