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Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Canopy, 2014, Wood, leaf, steel, 180 x 250 x 120cm

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Assemblage (vavona), (2017) Vavona burr veneer, beech substrate, 58 x 94 x 8cm

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Complex System 124 & 125, (2016) Cuttlebone, wood, glass, 94 x 78 x 5cm

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Complex System 124 & 125, (2016) Cuttlebone, wood, glass, 94 x 78 x 5cm, detail

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Copse, (2011), Pine trees, Dimensions variable

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, The Domination of Things, (2016) Cowrie shells, limestone, 102 x 88 x 3cm

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Mud Form (2015) (Richard Long wall work at New Art Gallery Walsall de-installed and compressed into pellet form)

Alastair & Fleur Mackie, Process image of above (de-installing 26 x 5m work in River Avon mud by Richard Long at New Art Gallery Walsall)

Alastair (b.1977, UK) and Fleur (b.1977, Cameroon) explore the boundaries of the conventional limits between nature and culture using sculptural interventions. They use natural materials to expose the clichés still hampering our understanding of the relationship between man and the natural world.

Alastair grew up in an agricultural community in Cornwall while Fleur’s childhood was split between Cameroon, France, and the UK. They met at art school in London in the late 90’s. Initially their creative practices were separate, but over time their work has evolved into a natural collaboration. In 2011 they moved to live and work in Cornwall. These divergent worlds undoubtedly contribute to their perspective and frame their conceptual approach to work.

Alastair studied at Camberwell College of Art (1997) and City and Guilds London School (2000). Fleur studied at City and Guilds London School (2000). Solo exhibitions include Between The Dog and The Wolf, Copperfield, London (2019); Constellation, Chipping Sodbury (2018, Public Art Commission); Redivivus, Plymouth (2016, Public Art Commission); Complex Systems, Gusford, Los Angeles (2013); Multiplicity, All Visual Arts, London (2013); Copse, All Visual Arts, London, (2011); I was there, in Arcadia, PAG, London (2011); Mimetes Anon, The Economist Plaza, London (2009); Not Waving But Drowning, The David Roberts Foundation, London (2009); Sticks and Stones, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica (2006); Terror Firma, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2005).

Selected group exhibitions include Unbounded: Contemporary Art Practices in Cornwall, Eden Project, UK (2019); Without a label, I feel free, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig (2018); FORMEN DER NATUR, Museum Villa Rot, Germany (2018);  Doing Identity, The Collection of Reydan Weiss, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (2018); Internal Nebular, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, U.K. (2017); ARK, Chester Cathedral, U.K. (2017); Natural Materials in Contemporary Art, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum (2017); 450 Year Anniversary of the collection at Ambras Castle, Innsbruck (2017); Proof of Life, Weserburg Museum of  Modern Art, Weserburg (2017); Force of Nature, The Art Pavilion, London (2017); Abu Dhabi Art, Paul Stolper Gallery, UAE (2016); I Prefer Life, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Weserburg (2016); Art Brussels, Copperfield / Division of Labour, Brussels (2016); Force of Nature, Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels (2016); Forever, Bubox, Kortrijk (2016); Manchester Contemporary, with Copperfield Gallery, Manchester Contemporary (2015); Shared, Somerset House, London (2015); Here today…, The Old Sorting Office, London (2014); Alchemy, Nest, The Hague (2014); Obsessive Compulsive Order, Copperfield Gallery, London (2014); Art and Alchemy - The Mystery of Transformation, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf2014)  ); Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, The Wallace Collection, London (2013); Glasstress: White Light / White Heat, Palazzo Cavalli, Venice (2013); Paper Vernacular: Drawings and Constructions, Cutlog, New York (2013); Wonderful - Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Me Collectors Room, Berlin (2012); The Art of Chess, Saatchi Gallery, London (2012); Everywhere and Nowhere, Reydan Weiss Collection, Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf (2012); Through the Looking Glass, Me Collectors Room, Berlin (2012); Memories of the Future, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2011); Restless Nature, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (2011); Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (2011); Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2011); Living in Evolution – Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan (2010); Lust for Life and Dance of Death: Works from The Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2010); Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010); Distortion, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice (2009); The Art of Chess, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (2009); Nature and Society // Parallel Lines, Ethnographic Museum, Dubrovnik (2007); ARTfutures, Bloomberg Space, London (2007).

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