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Jill Watson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1957. She spent five years at the Edinburgh College of Art. She proceeded to Italy to learn to carve marble and work in bronze beside the artisans in the workshops and studios of Pietrasanta near Carrara. Jill is a figurative sculptor who works mainly in bronze and carries out many major public commissions. She is also represented in galleries in many countries. Jill works between her studios in Edinburgh and Pietrasanta and is married to the architect Benjamin Tindall, with whom she has often collaborated.
1981 One main show, Kellie Castle, Fife, Scotland
1982 Group show ' Scultura all Versiliana' Pietrasanta, Italy.
The Scottish Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1983 One man show, Bronzes and Drawings, Camaiore, Italy
Group show, 'Scultrici in Versilia' Pietrasanta, Italy
The Scottish Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1984 Contemporary Art Fair, Bath Festival, England.
The International Contemporary Art Fair, The Barbican, London.
Demarcation Exhibiition, with the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Festival.
Group show at The Bohun Gallry, Henley-on-Thames, England.
1985 The Second International Contemporary Art Fair, London, Olympia.
'Giovane Scultura International' Castello Malaspina, Massa, Italy.
One man show, The Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, England.
The Scottish Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1986 The International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia. London.
'Scultura International 1986' Castello Malaspina, Massa
1987 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Bronzes.
1988 The Opening of The Scottish Gallery of London, Cork Street.
One man show, The Scottish Gallery, Cork Street, London, Bronzes and Marble.
1990 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Bronzes.
The Hannah Peschar Gallery, England, Bronzes
Group show at 'La Subbia' Gallery, Lido di Camaiore, Italy.
1991 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Bronzes.
The Hannah Peschar Gallery, England, Marble and Bronze.
1992 150th Anniversary Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Festival.
The Hannah Peschar, Gallery, England, Marble.
1993 Group show 'Il Disegno degli Scultore' with Galleria Botti, Pietrasanta, Italy.
1994 Mandarin Oriental Find Arts, Hong Kong, Bronzes.
1995 Kunstler Forum, 'Galerie im Luisenhaof' Bochum, Germany.
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Marble and Bronze.
1996 Memorial sculpture, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen University, Scotland in collaboration with Salvatore Finocchiaro.
Mostra di scultura in omaggio a SEM, Pietrasanta, Marble.
'The Artful Garden' Greywalls, Gullane, Scotland, Marble.
1998 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, USA, Bronzes.
1999 'The Hub', Edinburgh's Festival Centre. 'The Sculpture Hall', 236 figures in collaboration with Benjamin Tindall Architects.
Table centre-piece in bronze and marble for Tlhe Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2000 'World Views 2000 - Exterior and Interior Landscapes for the New Centry', Carla Massoni Gasllery, Chestertown, USA.
The Hub, Edinburgh's Festivall Centre, 'Recent Sculptures' the Hub's first exhibition of artists.
'Italian Visions, Contemporary Italian Sculpture', Canary Wharf, London.
2001 Commission for a 4 foot model of a public statue to Robert Fergusson.
Commission for bronze figures for Standard Life Bank HQ Entrance, Edinburgh, Scotland
Commission for a suite of bronze ironmongery for Rozel Fort, Jersey.
2002 Installation with 'Two Men Walking' at the inaugural 'Show50%' exhibition at Studio Artco, Seravezza, Lucca, Italy.
Heraldic carved limestone Lion. Figurative and illustrative bronze hinges and door handles for The Queen's Gallery, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2003 Bohun Gallery, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Henley-on-Thames, England.
'City Composition', 3 life-size bronze figures, for the Taiwan Financial Center, Taipei.
2004 Women of All Seaons, 8 sculptors working and living in Italy.
Exhibition in Hong Kong.
Carved sheep commission for India.
'Artists of Fame and Promise', Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, England.
2005 Commission for entrance, paving etc. St Michael's with St Paul's, Bath, England.
Greywalls Garden Exhibition, East Lothian, Scotland, Standing Man.
2006 'Horizons of the Imagination', Festival Exhibition at The Line Gallery, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland.
Short-listed for a Memorial on the Mall, London, for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Installation of 26 bronze historical figures a the Clore Learning Centre, Hampton Court, England.
2007 'Donna Scultura 2007' Municipal Exhibition, Commune di Pietrasanta.
Guilded Bronze Pear Tree Entrance to Clore Learning Centre, Hampton Court, England.
Artland Jupiter Sculpture Park,West Lothian, Scotland, special handles.
'Masters & Emerging Sculptors from Studio SEM, Pietrasanta, at the Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester, England.
East Coast Fishing Disaster 1881, 3 memorial commemorating the widows and children left in 3 communities in Scotland.
2008 Commission for Scottish Opera, two scenes from La Traviata, in a bronze edition, for fundraising.
4th memorial for the East Coast Fishing Disaster, at Cove Harbour, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Commission for bronze door sculpture for St Michael and St Paul's Church, Bath, England.
2009 Participant in International Civil Rights Group Show in Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, Alabama, USA and in Centro Culturale, Pietrasanta, Italy.
Hooks and handles for The Blue Cabin by the Sea, Berwickshire, Scotland.
2010 Memorial to Merchant Navy, Leith, Scotland. 5m high column, stone and bronze.
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