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RSA Annual 2020 exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

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 […]

By |April 25th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized||

‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles': National Galleries of Scotland (SNPG)

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 […]

By |September 17th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized||

‘In Focus: Scottish Photography’, Edinburgh City Art Centre

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: […]

By |September 14th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized||

Patricia Macdonald’s ‘Burnt moorland: grouse shooting’, An Lanntair, Stornoway

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 […]

By |April 1st, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized||

Patricia Macdonald talk: Napier University Photography Lecture Series 2017

Patricia Macdonald will give a talk on Tuesday 28 November 2017 in the Napier University Photography Lecture Series:
‘Over Land: Aerial forensics’

By |November 27th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||

Talk by P + A Macdonald at Faclan Festival, Stornoway

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’.

 

By |October 10th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||

‘Postcards from the Anthropocene’, University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh College of Art

‘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, […]

By |June 8th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||

Rephotography in the Scottish Highlands: Cairngorms & Morvern

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 […]

By |June 7th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||

After the Storm: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

After the Storm: Royal Botanic Garden (RBGE) Edinburgh
The photographic imagery of Patricia + Angus Macdonald, in their ongoing, long-running projects The Unwild and Re:Wild, offers momentary views of ecological disturbance and resilience in action.
The aerial triptych they contributed to the RBGE exhibition After the Storm (2016-17, on the theme of regeneration, recovery and resilience) – which views […]

By |January 6th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||

The View from Here: National Galleries of Scotland

The View from Here: Landscape Photography from the National Galleries of Scotland
Three aerial images made by Patricia + Angus Macdonald featured in The View from Here, the exhibition of landscape photography from the permanent collections of the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) recently on show in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG), Edinburgh (29 October […]

By |January 6th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized||