Colin Glen is an artist and writer and was born in Edinburgh in 1968. He lives and works in Stroud in Gloucestershire and has four children. He was educated at Goldsmiths College, receiving a BA in Art and Art History in 1991.
Colin Glen is an artist and writer and was born in Edinburgh in 1968. He lives and works in Stroud in Gloucestershire and has four children. He was educated at Goldsmiths College, receiving a BA in Art and Art History in 1991. In the 1990s he received patronage from the Blow family, living on their estate in Gloucestershire and worked in Fashion with Isabella Blow, Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen. In 2001 he achieved an MA in Art History from Birkbeck College and over the coming decade worked as an artist's assistant, general labourer, gardener, and Art History lecturer. He was awarded a writing bursary from Situations in Bristol in 2007 and has since contributed articles to Art Monthly and an magazines alongside a range of commissioned essays. In 2014 he received an Art History Mitt from the University of Bristol for research into the relationship between an object and its representation. He has shown artwork in a number of group shows including Beaconsfield, Chisenhale and SVA galleries. In 2009 he contributed to Black Dog/Yellow House at Trolley Gallery, in 2018 he was included in What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me at the Fine Arts Society and in 2021 Tree Teacher Tree at Washbrooke Dell, Gloucestershire. His solo shows include Drawings and Turning at the Groucho Club in 1996 and 1999 respectively, The Clearing at no.1 Middle Street/The Forest of Dean Sculpture Park in 2009 and Confusion To Clarity at TJBoulting in 2012.
