Iain Hales

Scottish
Lives and works London, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2025: The Best Leftovers, Subject Platter II, Corner7, London.
2024: PAINTINGS, m2 Gallery, London.
2016: Head, William Benington Gallery, London.
2015: Villa Charlotte, 9B Projects, London.
2014: Post-Model Montage, Standpoint Gallery, London.
2013: Euclidean Display Unit, m2 Gallery, London.
2012: Iain Hales, Cole, London.
2006: Folly, Hyperground, Edinburgh. Part of the Edinburgh Annuale.


Group Exhibitions

2024: Thinking is Making, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal.
2024: Sinker, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow.
2023: Thinking is Making, Standpoint Gallery, London.
2022: Twenty20, ASC Lambeth Court House Project Space, London.
2022: m2 Gallery ARTISTS: RECENT WORK 2, ASC Gallery, London.
2022: The Comrades They Were Brave - We Salute You!, 44 GRS Gallery, London.
2021: The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2020: Scenograph, Obiter Architecture, London.
2019: Threshold, m2 Gallery, London.
2019: Summer Show, Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House, London.
2018: m2(at)15, APT Gallery, London.
2015: I'm in Love with Rococo, part of ITA, curated by (It's All) Tropical, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Leeds.
2014: Show Off, LeandaKateLouise, London.
2014: Putt Putt #2, Turf Projects, Croydon, London.
2013: Sculpturing, Two Queens, Leicester.
2012: A Wall Is A Surface, LeandaKateLouise, Londonewcastle Project Space, London
2012: Switch, selected by Phyllida Barlow, BALTIC 39, Newcastle
2011: 26, LeandaKateLouise, London.
2010: Underfoot, 93-99 Clerkenwell Road, London.
2010: Formal Inquiry, Cole, London.
2010: Changing the Nature, Purge Projects, Vulpes Vulpes, London
2006: Nimes Biennale, Nimes, France.
2006: ESW’s New Members Exhibition, Leith Festival, Leith, Midlothian.
2005: Magazine, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshops, Edinburgh.
2004: 498, Evolution House, Edinburgh.
2004: Who chewed ma pencil…, Total Kunst, Edinburgh.



Awards/Residencies

2022: Villa Lena Foundation, Artist Residency, Palaia, Italy.
2013: Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Standpoint Gallery, London.
2009: Craignish Trust Emerging Artist Residency, Cove Park, Argyle And Bute, Scotland
2009: Adrian Carruthers Studio Award, The Slade School of Fine Art (shortlisted).
2008: Merz Barn, Artist Residency, Littoral Arts Trust, Ambleside, England
2007-2009: SAAS post-graduate funding.
2005: Andrew Grant Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art.



Press/Publications

Thinking is Making - Objects in a Space, publication, Black Dog Press, London, 2023.
Art Monthly, The Comrades They Were Brave - We Salute You! exhibition review, Cherry Smyth, May 2022.
The Comrades They Were Brave - We Salute You, exhibition catalogue. Essay by Chris Fite-Wassilak. March 2022.
EROS Journal - Issue VI, 'Homotopia', Villa Charlotte, essay by Emma Letizia Jones, Summer 2015.
Iain Hales, by David McLeavy, YAC (Young Artists in Conversation), April 2015.
Ambit Magazine - Issue 217, Summer Salon, Summer 2014.
Post-Model Montage, Iain Hales: Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. Exhibition catalogue, with essay – Warehouse Republic – by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Standpoint Gallery, 2014.
The Skinny,Showcase: Iain Hales, November 2012.
Surface Magazine, Material Man, by Marina Cashdan, April 2012.


Education

2007-2009: MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London.
2001-2005: BA (Hons) Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.