Lynsey MacKenzie

Lynsey MacKenzie explores ideas of time, repetition, and memory, through shifting planes of colour, gesture, and scale. Engaging with the materiality and physicality of paintings as objects, MacKenzie works intuitively, driven by colour and composition, and is interested in the surface of the canvas as a space in flux. The labour time contained within the paintings unfolds upon viewing, encouraging pause, and a slowing down of our increasingly hyperactive contemporary gaze. 

Lynsey MacKenzie lives and works in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2019 with a first class BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Chronochromia’, The Briggait, Glasgow (2022); ‘HERE AND NOW’, SaltSpace, Glasgow (2020). Group exhibitions include ‘Platform: 2022’, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (2022); ‘RSA Annual Exhibition’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2021, 2022); ‘Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2021); ‘Interactions of Colour’, Royal Glasgow Institute, Online (2021); ‘New Contemporaries’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2020).

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