Patricia Macdonald is one of the photographers featured in the show ‘Cadence: Ten Years of Studies in Photography’, alongside Jane Brettle, Alicia Bruce, Susan Derges, Robin Gillanders, Alex Hamilton, Laetitia Heisler, Sylwia Kowalczyk, Patricia Macdonald, Sheila Masson, Norman McBeath, Wendy McMurdo, Ron O’Donnell, John Perivolaris, Gabriela Pieniążek, Oana Stanciu, Iain Stewart, Rachel Travers, Andy Wiener, Dave Williams & Graham Williams, at the Studies in Photography gallery at 6 William Street, Edinburgh, 1-28 August 2026.
Patricia’s work which is included is the following:
Patricia Macdonald in collaboration with Angus Macdonald:
‘Braided river and ancient pines, Glen Feshie, Cairngorms, 1988’,
which was first shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in the solo touring show Shadow of Heaven, 1989, and first published in Macdonald, P., Shadow of Heaven (Aurum / Rizzoli, 1989);
A Cibachrome print is held in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, and in the Boswell Art Collection at the University of St Andrews.
This image now forms the first frame of a sequence of aerial views, of exactly the same location on the rapidly changing River Feshie, made over the last three decades, a triptych from which is held in the collections of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and which was published in Macdonald, P. (Ed.), Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography now (Studies in Photography / Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp 188-9).
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle paper.
