Will Maclean: Narratives

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WILL MACLEAN

NARRATIVES

sculptures and box constructions 20 April - 12 May 2018 The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh



The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents

WILL MACLEAN NARRATIVES sculptures and box constructions

20 April - May 2018 View the exhibition at www.fasedinburgh.com/exhibitions For sales and enquiries please contact Camilla Riva: +44 (0)131 557 4050 camilla@fasedinburgh.com


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The exhibition includes work recently completed and some from the recent past. The constructions and sculpture are responses to narratives that the historian and critic Alan Woods described as ‘Compressions and juxtapositions of memory, poetry, metaphor, the tide’s leavings’ (Catalogue Raisonné, Runkel Fine Art, London, 1987) Will Maclean Tayport 12.1.2018

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ARTIFICIAL HORIZON ‘TOWARDS ASSYNT’ 2018 signed; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 37 x 30 x 5 cm

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BALEEN ZOOMORPHIC 2018 signed and dated 2018; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 158 x 28 x 9 cm

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BIRTH OF URAISG AT GARYVARD 2016 signed and dated 2016; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 57 x 52 x 11 cm

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BLACK TIDE / LOCH BROOM 2018 signed and dated 2018; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 46 x 49 x 5 cm

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CROTTLE BOX 2013 signed and dated 2013; signed and inscribed verso acrylic and graphite on board | 45 x 38 x 7 cm

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DEATH FISH / WHITE COLLAGE 2016 signed and dated 2016; signed and inscribed verso collage | 32 x 43 x 4 cm

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EBB TIDE 2018 signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 56 x 43 x 16 cm

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FRAGMENTS no. 3 2016 signed, titled and dated 2016; inscribed verso collage | 48 x 56 cm

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IMPOSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS 2018 signed, titled and dated 2018; inscribed base verso found objects / sculpture | 28 x 28 x 26 cm

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LAMENT FOR A CLEARANCE VILLAGE 2018 signed; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 36 x 45 x 7 cm

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION / TOWARDS GAIRLOCH 2018 signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 22 x 28 cm

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MARINER’S MUSEUM: FICTICIOUS SUN 2013 signed; signed and inscribed base verso found objects / sculpture | 30 x 30 x 20 cm

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MARINER’S MUSEUM: STORM PLOTTER 2018 signed and dated 2018; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 84 x 103 x 9 cm

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MARINER’S MUSEUM: TAXONOMY OF TIDES 2014 signed and dated 2014; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 123 x 108 x 9.5 cm

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MOON AND NIGHT FISHER 2018 signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 28 x 30 x 5 cm

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NAVIGATOR’S BOX

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signed and in found objects and mixed

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X / STORMFINDER

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scribed verso d media | 13 x 38 x 64 cm

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PURE MANILA 2016 signed and dated 2016; inscribed verso collage | 32 x 42 cm

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SCIENCE OF THE BIVALVE 2018 signed; inscribed base verso found objects / sculpture | 15 x 26 x 12 cm

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SEA TIME 2004 signed and dated ‘04; signed and inscribed verso found objects and mixed media | 50 x 39 x 7 cm

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The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh

6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ +44 (0)131 557 4050 www.fasedinburgh.com art@fasedinburgh.com

Published by The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for the exhibition

WILL MACLEAN NARRATIVES sculptures and box constructions

held at 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ from 20 April to 12 May 2018 Catalogue © The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh Images © John McKenzie Photography All rights reserved

Front cover: Black Tide / Loch Broom, pp. 10-11 Inside front cover: Sea Time, pp. 40-41 Left:Artificial Horizon ‘Towards Assynt’ , pp. 4-5 Back cover: Crottle Box, pp. 11-12


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