Sandra Collins

Education: BA (Hons) and MFA, Edinburgh College of Art

Residencies: Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA - Nov/Dec 2014

Publication: Steadfast Arte Magazine, NYC, USA (2015)
Artist’s book - ‘Universal Description of the Known World Without End’,
a collaboration with poet Jim Capozzi and printmaker Michael
Loderstedt, (2014)

Awards: Travel Grant, City of Edinburgh Council
Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy – Website Award
The Helen A Rose Bequeath for Distinguished Work
The Scottish Further Education Unit Purchase Prize

Selected exhibitions:

2022 Show me Everything, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Solo Exhibition
2021 Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Winter Exhibition, Group Show
2020 Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Quiet World, Group Show
2019 Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition
2019 Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Winter Exhibition, Group Show
2019 Fidra Fine Art, East Lothian, Group Show
2018 Embassy Edinburgh, Group Show
2017 Paisley Art Institute, Scottish Drawing Exhibition
2016 Drawing on Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art
2015 Fidra Fine Art, East Lothian, Group Show
2014 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Who are You? Group Show
2014 Kalopsia Collective, Edinburgh, Group Show
2014 Summer Exhibition, St Margarets House, Edinburgh
2013 Cupar Arts Biennale, Unsung (collaboration with Matthew Hawkins
choreographer)
2013 St Margaret's House Arts, Edinburgh - Group Show
2013 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh

  • Kneeling figure who looks upwards with a hen on each shoulder

    Sandra Collins

    Friends in high places

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  • Figure with box of plants on their back

    Sandra Collins

    Impatient for the Wind

  • Figure holding a compass

    Sandra Collins

    Lets not get lost in time

  • Figure in a blue dress holds an object in their right hand

    Sandra Collins

    Rearranging the deckchairs

  • Two figures stand side by side, one with a hen on their head

    Sandra Collins

    Sojourners

  • Torso of a figure with different objects on their head against a patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Biscuit collector

  • Figure with hands out and palms turned upwards with objects on their head

    Sandra Collins

    The dealer

  • Figure in a blue dress and red headdress sits on a chair by a fireplace with a hen beside them

    Sandra Collins

    Gallus Gallus 

  • Figure in red with a headdress on sits at a cloth covered table on top of which is a hen and a candlestick

    Sandra Collins

    Idle hands

  • Figure with a hen on a box looks behind them to other chickens on a perch

    Sandra Collins

    A bird in the hand

  • Figure with object on head against patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Dreamcatcher

  • Figure with objects on head against a patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    The provider

  • Figure with object on head against a patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Dreamer

  • Figure with object on head, looking upwards, against a pattered background

    Sandra Collins

    Pandora

  • Figure holding a bird

    Sandra Collins

    Murmuration contemplation

  • Figure with object on head against a patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    He's a charmer

  • Group of three figures, one on a plinth with an object on their head

    Sandra Collins

    Always wanted to be a weather vane

  • Male figure looking upwards

    Sandra Collins

    A view to the north

  • Figure looking upwards

    Sandra Collins

    Beginnings

  • Figure sitting by fireplace with a variety of objects beside them

    Sandra Collins

    Destination unknown

  • Figure with headdress and holding a chicken

    Sandra Collins

    Everybody's darlin

  • Seated figure with a chicken on nearby table and plants

    Sandra Collins

    From what I'm reading none of us have to

  • Kneeling figure with a chicken on each shoulder

    Sandra Collins

    Study - Friends in high places

  • Figure carrying a bag and a pack on their back with a chicken in it

    Sandra Collins

    Soujourner

  • Figure looking out at viewer, wearing an orange scarf and a headdress

    Sandra Collins

    Untitled

  • Figure looking backwards with a blue bowtie on

    Sandra Collins

    Untitled

  • Figure with a headdress on against a patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Untitled

    Sold

  • Woman with a headdress on against a blue background

    Sandra Collins

    Untitled

  • Figure with headdress against a blue patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Waiting for a score

  • Figure against a square patterned background

    Sandra Collins

    Study

  • Figure looking upwards

    Sandra Collins

    When I stepped out one morning

  • figure in a green jumper

    Sandra Collins

    Untitled study

  • Collaged image of a sitting figure with a mask on

    Sandra Collins

    Mask: Queenie

  • Embroidered magazine page

    Sandra Collins

    Mask

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  • Man with arms outstretched

    Sandra Collins

    Keeping going

  • Sandra Collins

    Exhibition in situ

  • two images of embroidered paintings of women

    Sandra Collins

    Exhibition in situ

  • Sandra Collins

    Exhibition in situ

  • Sandra Collins

    Exhibition in situ

Sandra Collins
Mask : Queenie
Mask : Queenie

Medium : Printed paper with hand embroidery
Size : 29 x 22 cm
Availability : Available
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