Artists

Will Maclean
Exhibitions

Will Maclean
Solo Exhibitions

2018

Narratives, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

2012-13

Reliquaries, School of Art History, University of St Andrews

Collected Works, 1970 - 2010, The Fleming Collection, London

2007

Works with Poets, Stanza Poetry Festival, St Andrews

2006

Sea Room, Pittenweem Festival, Scotland, Guest Artist

2005

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

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

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

Will Maclean
Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years!

2022

Time and Tides, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

2021

Owners of the Soil, Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser, Fine Art Society, Edinburgh

2020

Archipelago: Academicians Gallery, RSA, Edinburgh

2019

Water, Colour & Life on Earth, The Art Box, Vicenza, Italy

Our Infinite Land, RSA, Edinburgh

2018

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

2017

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

2015

The Moon, Art First, London

2014

The Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2013

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

2012

Seeing in a Wilder Sense, A Dialogue with Art and Anthropology, Museum of St Andrews

2011

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

2010

Window to the West: the Rediscovery of Highland Art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Retrospective, Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland

2009

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

2008

The Post Card Project, Art First, London

Will Maclean/Marian Leven, Cupar Arts Festival invited Artists

2001

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

1998

Transistors, Hashimoto Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Kunstforeinf, Trondheim, Norway

1997

Back to Nature, Art First, London

1996

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

1995

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

1994

Worlds in a Box, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and touring.

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

1992

The Line of Tradition – watercolours, drawings, prints from the Collection, Scottish National Galleries, 1700 – 1990, Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh

1991

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

1990

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

1988

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

1986

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

1985

Focus on Landscape, Freemantle, Australia

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

1983

Six Scottish Artists, Cavallino Gallery, Venice

1982

Inner Worlds, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition

Mise en Boite, touring exhibition, Belgium

1981

Art and the Sea, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and tour to Wales and England

1976

The Need to Draw, Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition

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