A Fiaradh Gun Iar: Veering Westerly: Will Maclean 8 th August – 20th September

An Lanntair are delighted to welcome back artist Will Maclean for his new solo exhibition; ‘A Fiaradh Gun Iar: Veering Westerly’.
An Lanntair’s relationship with Will Maclean dates from 1985, since when he has featured in many projects. This powerful and lyrical exhibition of work from the ‘artist laureate’ of the Highlands and Islands, has a deliberate west-coast orientation and comprises drawings, constructions, assemblages, free standing sculptures, as well as the poetic collaboration with John Burnside, The Catechism of the Laws of Storms – a publication of poems written in response to collaged images by Maclean, editions of which are included in the exhibition.
Will Maclean was part of An Lanntair’s opening programme in 1985 and had a key role in the success of the As An Fhearann exhibition as well as numerous later shows over the years that followed. An Lanntair Board Member Malcolm Maclean said: “No other visual artist has contributed more to the promotion and resurgence of 21st century Gaelic culture. His work has ranged across all of Gaeldom’s big subjects – from his early homage to the Ring Net fishing tradition to renewal of the Scottish Irish connect” Maclean’s role in the recently completed, award winning Cairn, An Suileachan, close to Uig, is one of four Memorial Cairns he has worked on in Lewis since 1994. In her essay, Lindsay Blair describes these land works as ‘openly political’, serving their communities as ‘ontological paradigms’, reconfiguring the history underlying their cultural worlds. An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Lindsay Blair, Malcolm Maclean and Dr Findlay MacLeod. Will Maclean is represented by Art First, London, www.artfirst.co.uk
A public opening with Will Maclean will take place at An Lanntair on the 7th of August at 5pm when we will welcome the local community to the exhibition.
For more details please visit the website at www.lanntair.com

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