Alistair Mackinnon

Alistair Mackinnon in front of his work "Marathon" exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in 2020.

Banner Image: Digitally rendered topographic map of The Cradle of Humanity, Alistair Mackinnon, 2019

Alistair Mackinnon is an emerging artist based in London, United Kingdom. His practice involves an interdisciplinary journey through painterly digital art, biology and virtual spaces. Works manifest as live-streamed programs, videos, animations, paintings and sculpture.

Alistair's work facilitates these topics by translating the physical into the virtual, moving paintings of his own and others, 3D scanned ancient artifacts and plants from online archives, and photographs of physical materials into 3D rendering and simulation software. Distortion is a key facet of his process and these forms are abstracted through a growing list of open source softwares. These are enmeshed with his image making practices which texture forms, figures and spaces. They seek to bring an altered perception of technology, its uses and a potential counteraction to it’s exploitable aspects.

Alistair studied at Hampstead School of Art and then went on to complete an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. He has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery and participated in a "Late at Tate" at Tate Britain. Alistair is currently undertaking research and preparations for a PhD in science and art.

Works by Alistair Mackinnon

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