Norman McBeath is a photographer, printmaker and member of the Royal Scottish Academy. The National Portrait Galleries in London, Edinburgh and Canberra have over seventy of his portraits in their collections. Portraits held in the National Portrait Gallery, London can be seen here.

Heliconia, opposite, is a photogravure from the Prism International Printmaking exhibition currently showing in Canada at The Art Gallery of Guelph in southwest Ontario, Canada.

Prism Print International is a member-run printmaking cooperative founded in 2012 to promote artistic exchange, collaboration and global understanding through printmaking. This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Prism's esteemed former member and friend, the late Chiara Toni (1950 - 2025)
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CURRENT

CANADA: The Art Gallery of Guelph in southwest Ontario. Invited artist as part of Prism International Printmaking, showing with 38 artists from 17 countries. 22nd January - 3rd May 2026.

CZECH REPUBLIC: Moravian Museum, Brno. Photographs from the Barbara Day collection of Czech President Václav Havel’s visit to Oxford University in 1998. The exhibition is called Sparks of Freedom: British Support of Brno Dissent Groups in the 1980s, organised by the Moravian Museum's Department of the History of Anti-Totalitarian Culture, 15th October 2025 - 19th April 2026.

EDINBURGH: Royal Scottish Academy, Academicians' Gallery, invited artist, Modern Miniatures, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL. 17th January - 8th March 2026.

RECENT

FRANCE: University of Lille. The artists' book Exceptional Subjects (Collectors' Edition), a collaboration with Melissa McCarthy, exhibited at the international conference Quand la création s'empare de l'édition | When Creation Takes Over Publishing at the University of Lille, 12th - 14th November 2025.

DALKEITH PALACE: Perdendosi, a collaboration with Edmund de Waal, as part of PHOTO Dalkeith 2025, 30th August - 5th October 2025.

AUSTRALIA: Home of the Arts, Gold Coast. Portrait of the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, London. 'Writers Revealed', "Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London" 12th April - 3rd August 2025.

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