The National Galleries of Scotland commissioned Patricia Macdonald to make a series of blogs on environment-related themes for the Art and Artists / Features section of their website – based on some of her images held in their collections– for the lead-up to two major UN Conferences: on Climate (COP26 in Glasgow 2021) and Biodiversity (COP15 […]
Studies in Photography has recently launched a new initiative, Studies Editions, presenting a range of fine-art photographic prints for sale.
The first group of images in the range features a special edition set of prints of iconic historic images from the 1840s series ‘The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth’ by D.O. Hill & R. […]
Patricia and Angus Macdonald were Invited Artists in the RSA Annual 2020 exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Due to Covid-19, the exhibition is unable to be viewed in the RSA Gallery, Princes Street, Edinburgh, but an excellent virtual version of the show is available to view at: https://www.rsaannualexhibition.org/
Patricia & Angus Macdonald’s works may be […]
The current thematic photography show at the National Galleries of Scotland / Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Transportation Photographs from the National Galleries of Scotland (2 June 2018 – 13 January 2019) includes two aerial works in colour by Patricia + Angus Macdonald in the section ‘New Perspectives’, alongside two monochrome […]
Aerial works by Patricia + Angus Macdonald, held in the permanent collection of the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, form part of their current exhibition In Focus: Scottish Photography for the Edinburgh Art Festival (until 12 May 2019).
‘Symbols, Calton Hill, Edinburgh’, 1987, from Shadow of Heaven, 1989
The Times (Nancy Durrant, Friday, 31 August 18, T2: […]
Patricia Macdonald’s large composite artwork, ‘Burnt moorland: grouse shooting’, from her ongoing series The play grounds, forms part of the current exhibition, ’10 from the North / 10 bho Tuath’ at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Western Isles, 10 March – 14 April 2018.
This exhibition of new photographic work from Scotland and the Nordic countries showcases some of the most […]
Patricia Macdonald will give a talk on Tuesday 28 November 2017 in the Napier University Photography Lecture Series:
‘Over Land: Aerial forensics’
The Faclan Festival at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, invited Patricia + Angus Macdonald to contribute to their themed programme Ultima Thule, as part of the session Os cionn na tire / Over land on Saturday 28 October 2017. Their talk was entitled: ‘Into the Unwild: Forensic aerial views’.
‘Untitled: Earth: “Anthropocene Epoch”‘:
Contribution by Patricia + Angus Macdonald to exhibition accompanying the symposium: Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the Geopolitics of Representation, University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh College of Art, June 2017.
For details of the event, please see: http://www.postcardsfromtheanthropocene.com
The publication from the symposium, which is edited by Benek Cincik and Tiago Campos and involves 49 contributors, […]
Patricia + Angus Macdonald, as part of their long-running and ongoing environmental photographic record and artwork projects The Unwild and Re:Wild, have been carrying out rephotography – both from ground-level and from the air – in a number of locations in Highland Scotland over several decades. The images are most often based on their own […]