Fleming, Ian, RSA
1906 – 1994
Ian [John] Fleming studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1924 - 1929 alongside Edward Baird and James McIntosh Patrick, he won a travelling scholarship and travelled to France visiting Paris and Carcasonne. He proceeded to teach in the School from 1931as a lecturer in Drawing and Painting before serving in the Second World War. He married Catharine Margaret Weetch, the daughter of a school headmaster, in Glasgow on 27 April 1943. He returned to Glasgow School of Art between 1946 and 1948 and in 1948 he became the warden of Hospitalfield House in Arbroath succeeding James Cowie. In 1954 he became the Principal of Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen a post which he held until 1972.During his time in Aberdeen he was responsible for the revival of the Aberdeen Artists' Society in 1958 and he was also the founder Chairman of Peacock Printmakers and Artspace. A talented printmaker he was also involved in the revival of printmaking in Scotland in the nineteen seventies alongside William Wilson, RSA. He exhibited at the RSA from 1929 until 1994. He became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1947 and an Academician in 1956.
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