Collections

Educated at the Trustees Academy and at the RSA Life School and commenced his career as an apprentice lithographer. Was an original member of the Edinburgh Group when it formed in 1912. His future wife Mary Newberry, daughter of Francis Newberry RSA who Sturrock married in 1918, also became a member of this group. Sturrock visited Paris, Italy and Holland as part of the Carnegie travelling Scholarship. He experimented for a time with Vorticism along with his close friend Eric Robertson but soon became known for his rhythmic landscape compositions. His landscapes focus on the Borders and Solwayside and also on the English landscape of Dorset and Suffolk. Sturrock also had a studio for some time after the Great War at Gatehouse of Fleet in Galloway and Galloway subjects feature in his oeuvre. He exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibitions from 1909 until 1953. He became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1929 and an Academician in 1937. Sturrock was also Treasurer from 1938-1947.