Will Maclean
Solo Exhibitions
Narratives, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Reliquaries, School of Art History, University of St Andrews
Collected Works, 1970 - 2010, The Fleming Collection, London
Works with Poets, Stanza Poetry Festival, St Andrews
Sea Room, Pittenweem Festival, Scotland, Guest Artist
North Sea Archives, 19 April - 7 May 2005, Art First at DKFA Projects, New York
Will Maclean, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Driftworks, St Magnus Festival Exhibition, Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney
Driftworks, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Seaways, Art First, London
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
Atlantic Messengers, Art First, London
Cardinal Points, Museum of North Dakota, USA
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.
New Hall, St Andrews University
Comnairle Nan Eilean, Harris Festival
Kelvingrove Art Glasgow
Tour to Wick, Thurso, Kingussie, Inverness
Retrospective Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Art Space, Aberdeen
Runkel-Hue-Williams, London
Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow
Runkel-Hue-Williams, Old Bond Street, London
Claus Runkel Fine Art, London
Ring-Net, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Retrospective Loan Exhibition
Downing College, University of Cambridge
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Landmark Centre, Carrbridge
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Gilbert Parr Gallery, London
The Ring-Net. Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Leeds Art Gallery
Inverness Art Gallery, Campbeltown and Tarbet
Loomshop Gallery, Lower Largo
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
British School, Rome
Will Maclean
Selected Group Exhibitions
Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years!
Time and Tides, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Owners of the Soil, Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Archipelago: Academicians Gallery, RSA, Edinburgh
Water, Colour & Life on Earth, The Art Box, Vicenza, Italy
Our Infinite Land, RSA, Edinburgh
Ages of Wonder, Scotland’s Art 1540 – Now, 2018, RSA, Edinburgh
Assem Blage: Sculpture, Found Objects and Boxed Reliefs, Fine Art Society Edinburgh
Paper Matters II: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Will Maclean, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
Shelter Stone: The Artist and the Mountain, DCA Dundee, and RSA, Edinburgh
Maritime Perspectives, Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Paper Matters: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Bridget Macdonald, Will Maclean, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley. (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
Notable: Highlights from the Year, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
Between Tides, Fine Art Art Society, Edinburgh
The Moon, Art First, London
The Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Waterlines, with Marian Leven, Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
Mathematical Beauty, the Science of Art and Form, Gateway Galleries, University of St Andrews
Scottish Connections: The Art of Marian Leven & Will Maclean, Galerie Herold, Hamburg, Germany
Sea Fever, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
Seeing in a Wilder Sense, A Dialogue with Art and Anthropology, Museum of St Andrews
McTaggart’s Scottish Shorelines, St Andrews Museum
The Call of the Sea, Lamb Gallery University of Dundee
A Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art. With Arthur Watson, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Poetry Beyond Text, Edinburgh Poetry Library and DCA, Dundee
Window to the West: the Rediscovery of Highland Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Retrospective, Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
A Field Guide to Observing Art, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
The Collector’s Art, Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow University
Inspired; Scottish Art, Fleming Collection, chosen by John Burnside and Michael Russell
The Post Card Project, Art First, London
Will Maclean/Marian Leven, Cupar Arts Festival invited Artists
St. Kilda/Islands of Isolation, Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre, and Museum, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Western Isles
Transistors, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Kunstforeinf, Trondheim, Norway
Back to Nature, Art First, London
Calanais/The Atlantic Stones - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh University
The Day of the Dead, Galeria Otravez, Los Angeles, USA
Will Maclean and Jake Harvey: Constructions and Sculpture, Art First
Recent Scottish Art, McManus Gallery, Dundee
Contemporary Scottish Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Yale Centre for British Art, Newhaven, USA
Prints From Paragon, Talbot-Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Scandex – Scottish Sculpture in Scandanavia, Aberdeen Art Gallery; Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway; Konstans Hus Lulea, Sweden; Kemin Taidemuseo, Finland
Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Selected Affinities, Inaugural Solo Exhibition, Duncan of Jordanstone College
Worlds in a Box, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and touring.
Artists Responses to Beuys, The Demarco European Foundation, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition
The Line of Tradition – watercolours, drawings, prints from the Collection, Scottish National Galleries, 1700 – 1990, Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh
The Artist and the Whale, Dundee Art Gallery
Towards a New Decade, 20th Century Scottish Art, The Fine Art Society, Glasgow and Edinburgh
Will Maclean, A Night of Islands, Runkel-Hue-Williams, London
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
Scotland Creates - 5000 Years of Scottish Art and Design, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Scottish Art Since 1900, Exhibition and Barbican Gallery, London
Homage to MacDiarmid, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery
Clean Irish Sea, Greenpeace, Dublin, Cardiff and touring England and Germany
State of the Art, Fine Art Society in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Group exhibition Simon/Neuman Gallery, New York
From the Land, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh
Contemporary Art from Scotland, Leinster Fine Art
From the Land, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh
Contemporary Art from Scotland, Leinster Fine Art
Focus on Landscape, Freemantle, Australia
Hallaig, works for the film on the work of Sorley Maclean directed by T. Neat, touring exhibition
Six Scottish Artists, Cavallino Gallery, Venice
Inner Worlds, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition
Mise en Boite, touring exhibition, Belgium
Art and the Sea, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and tour to Wales and England
The Need to Draw, Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition