Robin Gillanders is former Reader in Photography at Edinburgh Napier University and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2016. He has several works in the collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, the V&A, London and National Portrait Gallery, London. He has published six books including The Philosopher’s Garden (2004), Highland Journey: In the Spirit of Edwin Muir (2009), and Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Sparta and Collaborations (2024)

He has exhibited widely and internationally including the Prada Foundation, Venice, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

He had a major retrospective at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh in 2017/2018 and was co-editor of Studies in Photography