John Macaulay

A graduate from The Royal College of Art and Glasgow School of Art, specialising in Printed and Mixed media textiles my working practice includes Painting, Printmaking and Textile Design. Each discipline is connected through drawing, texture and mark making working towards a narrative.
My work is often based around the theme of the urban and domestic, visualising ordinary everyday scenes and settings that are sometimes mundane; figures sitting, reading, eating or just sitting reflecting. These are the situations that we all do or see at some point and it is because of the ordinariness of them that I am drawn to recording them.
The paintings are composed using a series of drawings and photographic reference which are used together to construct the compositions and themes. The drawings are also used as a reference for my screen prints and more recently as material for my extended practice to the applied arts; using my drawing to extend the narrative onto fabric, through the process of digital printing.
Working within these practices gives me the opportunity to adapt and change my work to a variety of surface applications. A painting is contained, usually within a square or rectangle and framed as one single image, the screen print...

Royal College of Art MA RCA 1991-1993
Glasgow School of Art BA Hons 1986-1990