Scottish Artists in Historical and Contemporary Context by Bill Hare sampler

Portrait of Bill Hare (2018) Alexander Moffat.
bill hare was born in Edinburgh in 1944 and
studied at the University of Edinburgh and the
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in
the 1970s. Since then he has taught art history at the
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art
and the Open University. In 1985 he was appointed
Exhibitions Organiser at the Talbot Rice Gallery
working with many Scottish artists as well as those
from wider afield. Since 1995 he has concentrated
on teaching and freelance curating, with his main
focus on Scottish art since 1945. He has curated a
number of important exhibitions both in Scotland
and abroad, and has published books and catalogues
on a range of different aspects of historical, modern
and contemporary Scottish art. He is currently
an Honorary Fellow in Scottish art history at the
University of Edinburgh.