Biography

Madeline Mackay grew up in Caithness and studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Since graduating in 2012 she has received a number of major awards including the RSW Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award, the RE Joseph Webb Memorial Award and the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award.

Based in Dundee, Madeline works in printmaking and drawing, using concepts relating to untamed land as the basis for her imagery. She has exhibited in private and public venues throughout the Uk including the RSA, Edinburgh, the Compass Gallery, Glasgow and the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. She has had residencies in Finland, Nepal and Scotland.

Open Folio

Living Things
Bodies are brief alchemical changes in the land. While the body is alive land’s presence recedes under the pressure of a living breathing identity; but when animal presence retreats and the body’s roundness seeps back into the ground, from the ground something else seeps back and fills up the empty space left by life and flesh. The body becomes something altogether different, neither earth nor living thing: a concentration of the land’s inhuman life that inhabits the body like a grotesque spirit until both disperse under the pressure of external space.