Alastair Mackie

Alastair Mackie

 

Somebody wrote of a recent solo exhibition: "Whilst I'm not sure I would want to spend a lot of time in Mackie's studio, or go on a picnic with him, it is this eccentricity and inventiveness which makes these three pieces enough to accrue a new show and glowing reviews. Fine art at its weirdest and best."


AM's work touches on ideas to do with primal urges, science, the passage of time, and death while pointing to a broader exploration in to the relationship between man and nature - questioning our awareness and convictions about the boundaries that separate the two. Materials can be anything.


Upcoming group exhibitions this year include Dead or Alive at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and Living in Evolution at The Busan Biennale 2010 in South Korea.He currently works in London and Cornwall.


 

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Mimetes Anon The Economist Plaza London
2009 Not Waving But Drowning David Roberts Foundation  London
2006 Sticks and Stones Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica
2005 Terror Firma MW Projects London

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Crucible Gloucester Cathedral Gloucester
2010 Locus Solus Benaki Museum Athens, Greece
2010 KIAF (Korean International Art Fair) South Korea
2010 Living in Evolution  Busan Biennale 2010 South Korea
2010 The Wunderkrammer Olbricht Me Collectors Room  Berlin
2010 Dead or Alive Museum of Arts and Design New York
2010 The Art of Chess Project B  Milan
2010 The Art of Chess Dox Centre for Contemporary Art Prague
2010 Wonderland  Assab One MIlan

2009

The Age of the Marvellous All Visual Arts London
2009 The Embassy 20 Hoxton Square Projects London
2009 Distortion Gervasuti Foundation, Fondamenta S. Anna Via Garibald Venice
2009 The Art of Chess Reykjavik Art Museum  Iceland
2007 Still Life Still T1&2 Gallery London
2007 The Avatar of Sacred Discontent 9 Hillgate St London
2007 Nature and Society // Parallel Lines Ethnographic Museum Dubrovnik
2006 Says the Junk in the Yard Flowers East London
2007 Conflict 20 -21 Visual Arts Center Scunthorpe
2007 Obstacle - New UK Sculpture Spectacle Birmingham
2007 ARTfutures Bloomberg Space London
2007 Waste & the Lost World: Memento Mori Adventure Ecology HQ London
2006 Houses in motion Fieldgate Gallery London
2006 Augury Tara Bryan Gallery London
2006 Panpoticon Bearspace London
2005 MiART Max Wigram Gallery Milan
2004 If you go down to the woods today Rockwell London
2004 Frieze Art Fair Max Wigram Gallery London
2004 Selected Sculpture Max Wigram Gallery London
2004 New Blood Saatchi Gallery London
2004 Esoterica Ibid Projects London
2004 Born, Cry, Shit, Fuck, Die Rockwell London
2003 sARTorial England &Co London
2003 The Map is Not the Territory part 3 James Hockey Gallery Institute
of art and Design		 Surrey