Patricia Macdonald was one of the participants, along with Clementine Ewokolo Burnley and Janine Booth, in the panel discussion ‘Art & Resistance’, chaired by Jess Brough, at Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair: Our Fight 2022, on 11 November 22, which you can view here:
https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/art-and-resistance
The panellists each introduced themselves with a 5-minute presentation prior to the […]
Patricia Macdonald gave a presentation ‘Showing Land: Releasing the power of environmental imagery’, followed by discussion, together with Isobel Griffin and Stephanie Straine of the National Galleries of Scotland, as part of the event ‘Strengthening Culture’s Role in Climate Action’ organised by the Scottish National Culture for Climate (SNaCC) group, at the V&A, Dundee […]
Patricia Macdonald’s short video piece High Water: Sea-level rise was first shown in a blog commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland as part of a series of environment-related blogs 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 […]
Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now, edited by Patricia Macdonald, was published on 30 March 2022 by Studies in Photography in collaboration with Edinburgh University Press.
The book presents a range of approaches to image-making concerning the environment by some of the best artist-photographers working worldwide, alongside texts by some of the most illuminating writers on environmental questions, at a […]
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 […]