Tracy & Edwin began collaborating in 1997 after meeting as participants in Manifesta, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary art. Prior to this each had solo careers.
Tracy (SCO-IT) is an artist and educator, Professor Emerita, and an alumna of The Glasgow School of Art and The Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She exhibits internationally and has had solo exhibitions at e.g. Barbican Centre, London; CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Arnolfini, Bristol. In her individual practice and research Tracy employs drawing, writing, walking and video as dialogical processes to activate playful, provocative and non-linear properties of language within visual art practice, giving new and refreshed voice to collaborators and subject-matters.
Extensive periods have been spent living and working in Hungary, Romania, France and the Netherlands making art, and establishing art networks and artist-led organisations. She is a founding-Director of Glasgow Sculpture Studios and an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. As Professor Emerita, Tracy holds the Personal Chair of Contemporary Art Practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Educational practice has been focused through the Masters programme MFA Art, Society & Publics which she devised and lead, and multi-partner international projects.
Edwin (NL) has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums such as Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany and Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria.
After a short spell at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (renamed Willem de Kooning Academie) in Rotterdam Edwin studied at Ateliers’63 (De Ateliers). His PhD project explored artist-led curatorial practice, institutional critique, museum culture and cultural recycling.
Curatorial experience includes Commitment (2002, Las Palmas, Rotterdam), a presentation of works and projects by hundred- twenty visual artists, designers and architects who were funded in the Netherlands between 1999 and 2001 by the Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (now incorporated in Mondrian Foundation).
Dr Edwin returned to full-time art and curatorial practice in 2019 after a research and teaching career at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland and the Academy of Art and Design, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
He has been Chairperson of the Visual Arts Award Panels at the Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (now part of the Mondriaan Fund), the Netherlands and sat on the board of the art magazine Metropolis M.