Gino Ballantyne is a Scottish artist, author, curator and independent scholar. He studied at The Glasgow School of Art; Oxford Brookes University and Wimbledon School of Art, University of the Arts London. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Gino has curated numerous exhibitions whose primary focus has been to question notions of what drawing is.
His art delves into narratives of humanity, exploring themes of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Gino feels that the human condition and the human experience are deeply framed by a range of our senses, enabling a multidimensional rather than singular understanding of the world around us. He works with a variety of mediums and is presently collaborating on a new visual score and performance piece with oboist Christopher Redgate to premiere in July 2025. Gino is also currently working with author and art historian Robert Cumming on a series of books Slow Looking: Learning to Look, published by Lutterworth Press, September 2024; Continuing To Look will be published in 2025; followed by the third book in the series Seeing is Believing early 2026.
His current research interests include drawing in Britain and the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Goya. He is authoring a book on the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.
