1975
Elected professional member of SSWA

1980–3
Council Member of SSWA

1987
Member of Dundee Printmakers Workshop

1989
Elected member of The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour

1989
Elected member of The Scottish Society of Artists

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1984
Scottish Art Molle, Sweden

1984/89 /91/94 /96/2000/03
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

1990
Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow

1992/95/97/99 /2001/03
Thackeray Gallery, London

1996/97/2000/04
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames

AWARDS:
1981
Hiram Walker Award

1984
Anne Redpath Award

1984
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews – Special Award

1984
SSWA Special Award

1989
Paper Prize, Printmakers Workshop

1992
Paper Tiger Prize – Scottish Artists/Artist Craftsmen

1994
Thyne Scholarship – English Speaking Union

2003
May Marshall Award, RSW

2003
Commission for "Queen Victoria", Cunard Line, P&O

Collections Include:

Edinburgh University Fyfe Ireland
Shepherd & Wedderburn, Edinburgh
Betty Davies, Campus Group
Proctor & Gamble Bird Semple,
Dunfermline Building Society
Whyte & Mackay Perth Art Gallery
Art in Hospitals, and Private Collections
in the UK, USA and Sweden.

Marj Bond took a sabbatical to India in 1988, which opened up many new visual channels, and also gave her the opportunity to work on handmade paper.

More journeys include:
Summer Sculpture Workshop, Tuscany (1992).
Journey to Yucatan, Mexico (1993), Urbino, Italy (1993).
Painting Residency: Annaghmakerrig, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland (1994).
Journey to southern Spain (1996).
Sharmanka has been exhibited in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, USA, Israel etc.