All images above from UNCUT/NORMAL TIME AT THE 75TH MERIDIAN (two person exhibition with Rallou Panagiotou), +44 141 GALLERY, GLASGOW, 2011
Niall Macdonald (b.1980, Outer Hebrides of Scotland) makes ‘cast paintings’ in plaster and jesmonite, large-scale resin sculptures, tilted images of sunsets, high contrast prints of appropriated landscapes, brightly glazed ceramics chained into constellations, and spray-painted vessels in wood and various metals. His work is punctuated by distinct moments of repetition - often involving the production of multiples - and by the progression of idiosyncratic motifs that present physical and psychological landscapes. Through casting, printing and reproduction he appropriates his subject matter from a wide range of sources including brutalist architecture, geology, funerary artifacts, ornamental design, decadent fashion, astronomy and metaphysical poetry, while carefully crafting his own incisive aesthetic language often inspired by the extreme coastal landscape of the Scottish Hebrides.
