Alistair MacKinnon

Missing the Point, mixed media, 2025
Alistair MacKinnon, Missing the Point, mixed media, 2025
While researching complex systems, there was a mounting interest and pressure to sell works and create them for sale. This influenced the works being produced, which incorporated themes on systems of buying and selling. Breaking down groups of interacting individuals into interlinked colors and forms alongside abstracted artifact-currency, I incorporated these abstracts and patterns into figures inspired by the West African traditions and Caribbean traditional markets. Centered on abstracted currency-symbol systems, this work marks and blends boundaries of individual and collective behavior in art and other markets.
Alistair MacKinnon is a visual artist based in the UK. He studied at Hampstead School of Art and then went on to complete an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2020. His works have been exhibited at Southbank Centre, The Saatchi gallery, and at Tate Lates. Collaging abstract painting with 3-D moving images, his work researches afrofuturism and the impact of cultural development on ecology.


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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. 
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