WILL MACLEAN  
         
 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2006 2006, Sea Room, Pittenweem Festival, Scotland, Guest Artist

2006

Simon Lewty and Will Maclean: Charting a Decade, 1995 ­ 2005, Art First, London

2005 North Sea Archives, David Krut Projects, New York, with Art First
2004 New Work, Art First, London

2002

Art First, London

2001

'Driftworks', Dundee Contemporary Arts

2000

Seaways', Art First, London

1999

'Cardinal Points', McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Johns, Newfoundland.

 

'Landmarks-Seamarks', Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh

1998

'Atlantic Messengers', Art First, London

 

'Cardinal Points', Museum of North Dakota, USA

1995

"Voyages", Art First, London.

 

Professorial Exhibition, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee.

 

State University of New York at Binghampton, "Scottish Festival", Invited Artist with John Bellany.

1994

New Hall, St Andrews University

 

Comnairle Nan Eilean, Harris Festival

1993

Kelvingrove Art Glasgow

 

Tour to Wick, Thurso, Kingussie, Inverness

1992

Retrospective Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival

 

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Art Space, Aberdeen

1991

Runkel-Hue-Williams, London

 

Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow

1990

Runkel-Hue-Williams, Old Bond Street, London

1987

Claus Runkel Fine Art, London

1986

Ring-Net, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1984

Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Retrospective Loan Exhibition

 

Downing College, University of Cambridge

1983

Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Landmark Centre, Carrbridge

1979

Compass Gallery, Glasgow

 

Gilbert Parr Gallery, London

1978

The Ring-Net. Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and Richard

 

Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Leeds Art Gallery, Inverness Art

 

Gallery, Campbeltown and Tarbet

1971-73

Loomshop Gallery, Lower Largo

1970

Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

1968

New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh

1967

British School, Rome



Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 2006, Translations, Art First, London

2005

London Art Fair, Islington

2004

Directors Choice, Art First, London

 

Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Exhibition, Art First, London

2001

St. Kilda/Islands of Isolation, Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre, and Museum, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Western Isles

 

Starting a Collection, Art First, London

2000

transistors, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan & Royal Museum of Scotland

1997

Three Years On!, Art First, London

 

Back to Nature, Art First, London

 

Etchings for 'Moby Dick', Aberdeen

1996

Calanais/The Atlantic Stones - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh University,

 

Dundee Art Gallery

 

Art Miami, Miami International Art Fair

 

Contemporary Art Fair, Islington

 

Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition

 

New Prints, The Day of The Dead, Galeria Otravez, East Los Angeles and Glasgow Print Studios

 

Art 96 London Contemporary Art Fair

 

Small Works from RGIs, Kelly Gallery Glasgow

 

Cabinet Paintings, Compass Gallery, Glasgow

 

Will Maclean and Jake Harvey, Constructions and Sculpture, Art First, London

1995

Mixed Exhibition, Art First, London

 

Celtic Connections, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

 

Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven, Scottish Prints

 

London Contemporary Art Fair

 

Recent Scottish Art, McManus Gallery, Dundee

 

Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

 

Prints from Paragon, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Scandex - Contemporary Scottish Sculpture, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Solvberdet, Stavanger, Kulturhus, Norway, Konstans Hus Lulea, Sweden, Kemin Taidemuseo, Kemi, Finland

 

Opening Exhibition, Gallery Gilbert, Dorchester

 

Calanais/The Atlantic Stones, An Lantair Gallery, Isle of Lewis, Interceltique Festival, Lorient, France

 

Gulbenkian Suite, Prints, Highland Printmakers, Inverness

 

St Andrews Crawford Centre, Prints from Scottish Workshops

 

Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition

 

Strongly Recommended, Art First London - Gallery Artists

 

Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

 

Gathering, Scottish Printmaking (Gallery Beeldspraak, Amsterdam)

 

The Beltane Spirit, New Highland Art, Brown's Gallery, Tain

 

Drawings from the R.S.A., Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven

 

Found in Scotland, Harvey, Rae, Maclean, Lawrence, McAlister, Art First, London

 

The Call of the Sea, Invited Artist, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Selected Affinities, Inaugural Solo Exhibition, Duncan of Jordanstone College

 

Winter Exhibition Gallery Artists, Art First, London

 

Art Lotto, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, supported by S.A.C.

 

Twelve Artists explore Alchemical Transformations, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

1994

Worlds in a Box, Arts Council of Great Britain, South Bank Centre, London; City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Sainsbury's Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia

 

Aberdeen Artists' Annual Exhibition

 

Artists' Sketch Books, Opening Exhibition, Nancy Smillie Gallery, Glasgow

 

Cancer Research Exhibition, Dundee

 

Princess of Wales Hospice Exhibition, Glasgow

 

Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition

 

Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition

 

Howard, McCulloch, Maclean 3-Man Exhibition, Andrew Lamont Gallery, London

 

11 out of 10 - Critics Choice, N.S. Gallery, Glasgow. Selected by Clare Henry

 

Artists' Responses to Beuys, The Demarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition

 

Contemporary Scottish Prints, Peacock Printmakers, North Berwick,

 

Invited Artist, Harris Festival Association, Rodel, Harris

 

Will Maclean, New Work, Front Room Focus, Art First, in Cork Street, London

 

Society of Scottish Arts Annual Exhibition

 

Scandex Scottish Sculpture, opening Exhibition, touring to Scandinavia, Aberdeen Art Gallery

 

Worlds in a Box, Whitechapel Gallery, London

 

Mixed Exhibition, Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow

 

Absolute Secrets, Royal College of Art, London

1993

Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art London Gallery Artists

 

Netherbow Art Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Morning Star Folio with Ian Stephen

 

The Winter Collection, Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow

 

Shore Lines, The Sea's Influence in Scottish Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

 

Celtic Connections, Glasgow Concert Hall

 

Opening Exhibition, Gallery Artists, Art First, London

1992

Retrospective Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh University; Art Space, Aberdeen; Glasgow Art Gallery, Kelvingrove; Highland Regional Council tour to Wick, Thurso, Inverness, Kingussie, Stornoway

 

Festival Critics Award for best exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival

 

Midlands Contemporary Art,

 

Scottish Selection, Counter Pointing - New Art from Scotland, Collective Gallery Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh

 

Printmaking in Scotland Westgate Gallery, North Berwick

 

Scotland in New Europe, Richard Demarco, Glasgow

 

Sotheby's London Art Exhibition, London

 

The Scottish Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Edinburgh

 

Guardian Art, London

 

Louise Pickering Gallery, Private Art Market, London

 

Paragon Press Print Fair, Royal Academy, London

 

The Line of Tradition - Watercolours, Drawings, Prints from the Collection of the Scottish National Galleries 1700-1990, Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh

 

Stones and Samson - Launch Exhibition, Glasgow

1991

The Artist and the Whale, Dundee Art Gallery

 

Gallery Artists, Runkel-Hue-Williams, London

 

RSW/Peacock Printmakers, RSA, Edinburgh, invited artist

 

Wood Works, Covent Garden, London

 

Towards a New Decade, 20th Century Scottish Art, The Fine Art Society, Glasgow and Edinburgh

 

Scottish Art in Budapest, Hungary

 

Will Maclean, A Night of Islands, Runkel-Hue-Williams, London

 

New Prints, Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow

 

Myth and Symbol, Highland Regional Council, touring exhibition

 

20th Century Scottish Art, North-West Academy of Arts, Bristol

 

Virtue and Vision, Sculpture and Scotland, National Gallery of Scotland in the Royal Scottish Academy

 

Art in Boxes, England & Co. London

 

The Artist as Voyager, Will Maclean and Richard Demarco, Aberdeen and Edinburgh

 

The First 100 Years, invited artist, Society of Scottish Artists Exhibition

 

The Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen Exhibition, invited artist

1990

From the Directors Chair, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Edinburgh Printmakers in London, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London

 

Boxes and Totems, England & Co. London

 

Contemporary Arts Fair, Olympia, London, Runkel-Hue-Williams

 

Jordanstone Folio. A collaboration with Writer-in-Residence included in the Kindred Spirits exhibition, Ancrum Gallery and Dundee College of Art.

 

Boites et Reliefs (4 person show), Gallerie de la Gare, Bonnieux, France

 

Scotland's Pictures - The National Collection, RSA, Edinburgh

 

Gallery Artists, Runkel-Hue-Williams, London

 

Glasgow's Glasgow, Art in the North, The Arches, Glasgow

 

Scotland Creates - 5000 Years of Scottish Art and Design, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

1988

Garden Exhibition, Fine Art Society, Glasgow

 

Homage to MacDiarmid, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery

 

Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop Festival Exhibition, invited artist

 

Modern Masters I, Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd

 

Modern Masters II, Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd

 

Clean Irish Sea, Greenpeace, Dublin, Cardiff and touring England and Germany

 

Scottish Art, Middlesborough Art Society

 

Opening Exhibition, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow - Scottish Art

 

State of the Art, Fine Art Society in Edinburgh and Glasgow

 

Scottish Art Since 1900, Exhibition and Barbican Gallery, London

 

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Festival

 

Into the Highlands, Dundee City Art Gallery

 

A Song of the Sea, Barrack Street Museum, Dundee

 

The Stevenson Collection, Warwick Arts Trust, London

1987

Will Maclean/Italio Scanga - Simon Neuman Gallery, New York

 

Scottish Contemporary Art, Clare Hall, Cambridge

 

Wood Works, Mixed Exhibition, Bluecoats Gallery, Liverpool, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

 

Group Exhibition, Leinster Fine Art, International Contemporary Art Fair, London

 

The Ring-Net, One-man exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

 

Mixed Exhibition, C.D.R. Fine Art, London

 

Contemporary Art from Scotland, Leinster Fine Art, London

 

Wrought Wood, Bolton Art Gallery

 

The Scottish Show, touring exhibition, Wales

 

Dundee Artists, Clare College, Cambridge

 

The Chosen Few, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Round the Scottish Coasts, Peacock Printmakers, travelling exhibition

1986

Wood Works, touring exhibition, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Inverness Art Galleries

 

International Contemporary Art Fair, London

 

Group exhibition with Leinster Fine Art

 

Group exhibition Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York

 

Contemporary Art from Scotland, Leinster Fine Art

 

As An Fhearann (From the Land), An Lanntair, Stornoway; and Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh - touring exhibition, Canada

 

Drawings from Sorley MacLean's "Hallaig", STV.

1985

Hallaig, works for the film on the work of Sorley Maclean directed by T. Neat, touring exhibition

 

Focus on Landscape, Fremantle, Australia

 

Scottish Contemporary Drawings, Fair Maids Gallery, Perth

 

10th Anniversary Exhibition, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

 

Represented Leinster Fine Art at the Chicago International Art Exposition

 

Work for National Trust Collection exhibited at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1984

Barbican Art Fair, with Leinster Fine Art

 

Scottish Contemporary Art in London and Washington. Will Maclean/Barbara Rae, Leinster Fine Art London and V.N. Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia

 

A Festival of Scottish Drawing, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

1983

Dusseldorf Arts Fair

 

Six Scottish Artists, Cavallino Gallery, Venice

 

Bath Arts Fair

 

Leinster Fine Art, London

1982

Inner Worlds, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition

 

Artists Boxes, Xavier Berg Gallery, London

 

Artender '82, Bilbao, Spain

 

Mises en Boite, touring exhibition, Belgium

1981

Art and the Sea, Third Eye Centre, touring exhibition, Glasgow, England and Wales

1980/81/82

International Art Fair, Basle; represented by David Gilbert Gallery, London and Germany

1980

Compass Gallery, touring exhibition, Denmark

1978

Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery Opening Exhibition

 

Painters in Parallel, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh College of Art

1977

Inscape, SAC Exhibition, selected by Paul Overy, Fruitmarket Gallery, Warehouse, Covent Garden and Ulster Museum, Belfast

1976

The Need to Draw, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition

1975

Six Coastal Artists, Saltire Society, Edinburgh

 

A Choice Selection, Fruitmarket Gallery Opening Exhibition, Edinburgh

 

200 Years of Scottish Painting, Marjorie Parr Gallery, London

1974

Dallas Brown/Maclean, Stirling Gallery

1972

Figurative Painters, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

 

MacLeod/Maclean, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh