Alexander Mackenzie

As an artist, I am at least as interested in what is not seen and not heard, as in as what is seen. Over the years I continually come back to the simplicity of a single object, a still life, an invented still life as the portal to the whole, beyond the image. I have chosen painting as a place to share the transcendent. I believe that colour, movement within colour, an incidental mark, are the footprints of the spiritual. Whilst I could never be accused of being religious, I have been a lifelong friend of the numenous. My paintings are as close to me as my dearest friends and I share them with you as I might share a secret. They are intimate, deeply personal, full of fun and frenzy, and are the métier of intimacy as I understand it.

MA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 2012 - 2013
Foundation Diploma, Goldsmiths University of London, 1979 - 1980

Solo exhibitions:
2013 - Palais de la Cour de Justice,
‘In the Family of Things’, Luxembourg
2009 - The Gallery Nailsworth, ‘Eclipse’, Nailsworth, Stroud, United Kingdom
2004 - Ruskin Gallery, Nailsworth, ‘Still Life’, Stroud, United Kingdom

Group exhibitions:
2013 - Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Show, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
2012 - Open Studios, ‘Red’, Albion Rd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2010 - The Gallery Nailsworth, ‘Gathering’, Nailsworth, Stroud, United Kingdom