Jacqueline Orr studied at Glasgow School of Art where her tutors included Barbara Rae, James Robertson and Jack Knox.   She did further study at the University of Glasgow where she achieved an MSc in Information Technology.   She has won several awards since her graduating in 1983, on graduation she was honoured with the Armour Prize for Still Life Painting.   The James Torrance memorial prize followed in 1995 from the Royal Glasgow Institute and in 1996 she was given the Armour Award.   2008 she won the Alexander Graham Munro Award, from the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, 2009 The Joe Hargan Award from Paisley Art Institute and also in 2009 the Riverside Gallery Award from the RSW.   In 2007 Jacqueline was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) and 2013 was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI).

Jacqui is a regular exhibitor at all the Scottish Institutions and having built a following she is a regular exhibitor at commercials galleries in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Gullane, the Cotswolds, London, France and South Africa

1961                        Born Glasgow, Scotland

1979–1983                Glasgow School Of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art

1986–1988                University of Glasgow,  MSc Information Technology

2007                        Elected member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW)

2013                        Elected member of the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI)

Awards           

2009                         Riverside Gallery Award, RSW

2009                        The Joe Hargan Award, Paisley Art Institute

2008                        Alexander Graham Munro Award, RSW

1996                        The Armour Award, RGI

1995                        James Torrance Memorial Award, RGI

1983                        Armour Prize for Still Life Painting, Glasgow School Of Art

Exhibitions           

Between 1995 and 2011            Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI)

Royal Scottish Academy (RSA)

Royal Scottish Society of Painters In Watercolour (RSW)

Paisley Art Institute (PAI)

Arteries Gallery, Glasgow

Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Falle Fine Art, St Helier, Jersey

Fraser Gallery, St Andrews

Gallery At Home, Versailles, France

Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow

Green Gallery, Buchlyvie

Gullane Art Gallery, Gullane

Inverarity One to One, Glasgow

Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Lemond Gallery, Glasgow

Manor House Gallery, Chipping Norton

Oakham Contemporary, London

Red Rag Gallery, Stow-On-The-Wold

Riverside Gallery, Sonehaven

Smithy Gallery, Blanefield, Glasgow

Thompson’s Marylebone, London

Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeen