A fine etching full of mystery and magic by the Scottish artist, Will Maclean. The etching shows a pagan or wiccan altar with various mysterious artifacts including a number of small bird skulls, hanging on the wall, one in a frame and another in a cage beneath the altar. The violent, erratic scratching in the etching give it a dark and ominous appearance. This print is from a very limited run of 40 (33/40).
The artist has signed to the lower right, inscribed to the lower edge and numbered to the lower left. The print has been presented in an off white card mount.
On wove.In fine condition.
53.5 x 40cm (21.1" x 15.7")
Will Maclean MBE is a Scottish artist and professor of art. Born in Inverness in 1941, he was a midshipman on HMS Conway at Anglesey in Wales (Blue Funnel Line, 1957–59) before attending Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (1961–65).
He was elected Royal Scottish Academician in 1991 and in 1997 he designed and as part of the team, won the Scottish Natural Heritage Supreme Award for three Memorial Cairns in Lewis. The British Library and Tate Artists Lives Sound Archive made a valuable recorded interview with him in 2005, the year he was awarded an MBE for services to Education and the Arts. He lives and works in Tayport, Fife with his wife, the artist Marian Leven. In 2008 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of the Highlands and in 2009 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Aberdeen.
Maclean has exhibited widely since 1967. Solo exhibitions have included The Ring-Net, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and tour (1978); Runkel-Hue-Williams, London (1990); Retrospective Exhibition, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and tour (1992) with accompanying monograph Symbols of Survival; a major solo show, Driftworks at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001, and exhibitions with Art First, London, since 1994. His most recent exhibition being the 2018 show "Narratives" - The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh. His previous exhibition with Art First in Eastcastle Street, London, was in 2014, "Gleaned and Gathered". In 2015 his touring show, "Veering Westerly " launched at An Lanntair in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
His work is in public collections including Arts Council of Great Britain; The British Museum; Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow City Art Galleries; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Scottish Arts Council; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture;McMaster Museum, Canada; Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, USA. He was recorded for the "Artists' Lives" sound archives by the British Library, shared with Tate.
| SKU | qo996 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Will Maclean MBE (b.1941) |
| Date | 1990 |
| Dimensions | 53.5 x 40cm |
| Medium | Etching |
| Style | Modernism |
| Subject | Still Life |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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