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 images by pioneering aerial photographer Alfred Buckham.

P-A-MACDONALD-NSG-10c-S‘Coast road and windswept woods, Gosford, East Lothian’, 1986, from exhibition (The Photographers’ Gallery, London, & UK tour) and book (Aurum/ Rizzoli, London/New York) Shadow of Heaven, 1989. 

slide1‘Castle Island and cracking ice, Loch Leven’, 1987, from exhibition (The Photographers’ Gallery, London, & UK tour) and book (Aurum/ Rizzoli, London/New York) Shadow of Heaven, 1989

A few copies of Patricia Macdonald’s book Shadow of Heaven are currently available through the SNPG shop.

SNPG-PT&A-2-IMG_8071c-SPlanes, Trains and Automobiles exhibition, ‘New Perspectives’ section, NGS: SNPG