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Touching Distance

Paintings 2022-2023

fall, Algonquin, 2021

Algonquin

Upcoming Show by Allan MacDonald

by | 6th June 2024 | Exhibitions | 0 Comments

  Browns Gallery is proud to introduce Allan MacDonald as the next artist to exhibit in our Inverness Gallery. 'Touching Distance', a brand new body of work, will show from Saturday 15th of June to Sunday 21st of July. We invite you to join us at the private...
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Touching Distance

by | 21st May 2024 | Exhibitions, Thoughts | 0 Comments

In 2022 I took up a Residency on Hrisey, a small island on the tip of Northern Iceland. This body of work grew directly from my stay there. Hrisey is a small flat island cocooned in the long arms of the East and West Fjords; a cold embrace.
Exhibition at Brown’s Gallery Inverness, June the 15 th 2024

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Moment in the sun

by | 25th October 2021 | Exhibitions | 0 Comments

Catalogue introduction by Allan MacDonald | Moment in the Sun Where did this begin? Partly in 2019, when I was awarded the Balavoulin Art Grant, but really over 25 years ago when a friend returned home from Canada with a book called Silence and the Storm. Inside were...
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The Sound of many waters

by | 11th March 2020 | Exhibitions, Thoughts | 0 Comments

This is a collection of paintings mainly sourced from a recent stay in Mangersta, on the South West corner of Lewis. The title is taken from text from both the Old and New Testament; the book of Ezekiel and the book of Revelation*. Why? Firstly, because it fits the...
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Transparency | An exhibition by ALLAN MACDONALD in Kilmorack Gallery

by | 20th August 2019 | Exhibitions | 0 Comments

Transparency ALLAN MACDONALD exhibition 24th August - 21 September You and your guests are invited to the private view of new work by Allan MacDonald. In this exhibition - transparency - MacDonald continues his exploration of untouched places and their closeness to a...
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Allan Macdonald

Allan Macdonald

Artist

The writer Michel Faber once described my work as ‘excited despatches from remote places’ and there is an element of truth in this. I am drawn to paint in places where the human imprint is small. But where is truly remote? I can get as much a sense of remoteness looking out my back door as I can from driving till the road runs out on the North West coast.

Contact Information

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