Artist: ALASTAIR MACKIE

Context has everything to do with the work of Cornwall-based artist Alastair Mackie. He grew up on a farm in Cornwall, South West England and is inspired by the way organic forms such as dead leaves take on a new character when placed in built environments such as the white-walled studios of urban London. His juxtapositions of naturally occurring and man-made forms result in ambiguous work that challenges the boundaries separating nature and culture. Work that by his own admission, “makes sense and no sense at the same time”.

~ Phaidon