Sandy Murphy is a contemporary Scottish artist and was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1956. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1976 until 1980, when he graduated with an honours degree. He completed a teacher training course and taught in Ayrshire schools until 1985. At this point he took the decision to paint professionally, full time.

He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1996 and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 2000.

1956 Born in Irvine, Ayrshire
1975 - 80 Studied at Glasgow School of Art
1979 Scholarship at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath
1981 – 85 Secondary School Teacher
1996 Elected RSW
2000 Elected RGI

AWARDS:
1989 – 91,92,93 Highly Commended, Laing Competition
1994 – 95,97 National Prize Winner, Laing Competition
1994 Mary Armour Award, Paisley Institute
1998 John Gray Award
2000 Sir Gillies Award, RSW
2005 May Marshall Brown Award, RSW

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1986 Main Fine Art, Glasgow
1988 Blythswood Gallery, Glasgow
1990 – 92,95,97 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
1991 – 93,95,98,00,05 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 Thompson’s Gallery
2001 John Davies Gallery
2003 Panter & Hall, London
2003 Waterford Gallery, Hale
2005 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-wold
2007 Rodger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2008 Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow
2009 Panter & Hall, London


Source:
Website of Thompson Galleries, 2019