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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Tariq Hassan Gordon

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Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

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Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning

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OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

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E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.