Sam MacDonald London Exhibition 2012

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Sam MacDonald

Sam MacDonald was born in 1964 on the Isle o Lewis where he lived or a ew years beore

moving to Orkney. He received his BA in Metalwork and 3-D Design rom the Camberwell

School o Art in London and now lives and works in Perthshire.

Since childhood MacDonald has been ascinated by Scotlands rivers, rugged coastline, and

shing traditions. He translates the colours, textures and movement o what he sees into unique,contemporary works o art made rom pewter, copper, brass and gold lea using traditional

metalwork techniques. My artistic endeavour is to observe and capture feeting moments o

nature, he says. I try to express an emotional response to something very private: a moment

shared between man and nature.

Capturing a moment in metal also refects the shs ability to stay motionless. This contrasts

with their explosive speed o turn and strike, the artist says. They have a pure, aerodynamic

orm that is engineered or speed. It is hard and glinting the same attributes as metal.

Using tools that he creates himsel or each piece, MacDonald hand-pierces the relies in

pewter, and then taps in the scales and individual markings and details. The colour o the

patination is then achieved with gold lea and enamel, and nally sealed with hot lacquer orbeeswax. This technique suits the underwater palette perectly and lends an aura o age.

In recent years, MacDonald has undertaken shing expeditions around the world that have

resulted in artworks o even more species, including blue marlin, yellown tuna, red snapper,

humpback and sperm whales. These are eatured alongside his ever-popular depictions o

salmon, permit and mackerel. However, his avourite sh remain the aggressive small brown

trout rom moorland lochs, which match the thrill o having a good bonesh on the line.

Solo Exhibitions

2000 Fish, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness

2001 Fish, The Weem Gallery, Pittenweem,

2002 Depth, The Orkney Museum, Kirkwa

2004 Maclaurin Art Gallery, Rozelle House

2012 Alexander Meddowes Fine Art Broker

Joint Exhibition

2010 With Terrence Lambert, Alexander M

Edinburgh.

Group Exhibitions

2003 Queens Road Gallery, Aberdeen

2003 Stenton Gallery, East Lothian

2005 Stenton Gallery, East Lothain

2006 Stenton Gallery, East Lothian

2010 Royal Glasgow Institute o the Fine A

2011 David Shepherd Wildlie Artist o the

Exhibition

2011 CLA Game Fair Blenheim Palace

2011 The Game and Wildlie Conservation

Bramham Park

Public Commissions

2001 Piers Arts Centre, Stromness

2006 Institute Medical Science, Aberdeen

2008 Stornoway, Isle o Lewis

2009 P&O Azura

Sam is a member o the Redspot Artist Gro


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1. Bluen Tuna Head

Signed on the reverse

Pewter, gold leaf and brass

113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

2. Blue marlin head


Pewter, gold leaf, copper and brass

113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

3. Tarpon 2



157/8 x 157/8 inches (40 x 40 cms)

4. Permit


Pewter, gold leaf and copper

393/8 x 393/8 inches (100 x 100 cms)


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5. Two Good Fish



59 x 59 inches (150 x 150 cms)


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6. Herring



393/8 x 393/8 inches (100 x 100 cms)


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7. Herring


Pewter

113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

8. Turbot head


Pewter and copper

113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

9. Sea trout head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

10. Pike head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)


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11. Alchemy II, Three Brown Trout



197/8 x 197/8 inches (50 x 50 cms)


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12. Permit head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

13. Tarpon head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

14. Bonesh head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

15. Bass head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)


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16. Emperors Fish Turbot

Etched around the edges:

In sight o the shrine o Venus, which Doric Ancona upholds,the marvelous expanse o an adriatic turbot appeared, and flled the nets.


Copper

393/8 x 393/8 inches (100 x 100 cms)

Inspired by an early reerence to the Turbot in a satirical poem(The Emperors Fish) by Juvenal,

a Roman poet o the late 1st and early 2nd centuries A.D.

Satire IV: The Emperors FishBack when the last Flavian was ripping up a hal-dead

World and Roma slaved or a bald Nero In sight o the shrine o Venus, which Doric Ancona upholds,

The marvelous expanse o an Adriatic turbot appeared,And flled the nets; ...


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18. Tarpon



331/2 x 331/2 inches (85 x 85 cms)


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19. Hen Salmon Head



113

/4 x 113

/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

20. Salmon Head



113

/4 x 113

/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

21. September Salmon Head



113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

22. Brown Trout Head


Pewter and gold leaf

113/4 x 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)


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Sig

Pewte

331/2 x


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24. Mackerel



235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 cms)

25. Ayu Or Japanese Sweetsh



235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 cms)

26. Two Brownies


Pewter, gold leaf and bra

235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 c


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28. P

Sig

Pewter, glas

197/8 x


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Sig

Pewte

707/8 x 1


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Pewt

59 X 5


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32. Two Salmon Following A Cascade



197/8 x 707/8 inches (50 x 180 cms)

33. Bonesh Following A Clouser Minnow



197/8 x 707/8 inches (50 x 180 cms)


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34.

Sig

Pewt

197/8 x

35. BroSig

Pewt

197/8 x


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36. St Kil

Sig

Pewte

59 x 39

Accompanied by o his visit to St Kilda a


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37. Salmon And Sea Trout



197/8 x 59 inches (50 x 150 cms)

38. Permit And Shadow



197/8 x 471/4 inches (50 x 120 cms)


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39. Bass on Mackerel

Signed on the Reverse

Pewter, Gold Leaf and Copper

59 x 393/8 inches (150 x 100 cms)


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40. Morning


pewter, gold leaf, copper and brass

157/8 x 157/8 inches (40 x 40 cms)

41. Twilight


pewter, gold leaf, copper and brass

157/8 x 157/8 inches (40 x 40 cms)

42. Night


pewter

157/8 x 157/8 inches (40 x 40 cms)


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43. Meaningless

A study of sh skeletons (bluen trevally)

Inscribed around the edges:

What has been will be again

What has been done will be done again

There is nothing new under the sun

Ecclesiates 1:9


Lead and copper

A triptych each (157/8 x 157/8 inches) (40 x 40 cms) (3)

44. Tarpon chasing blue runners


Lead and copper

113/4 x 373/4 inches (30 x 96 cms)


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45. Fish ladder



59 X 59 inches (150 x 150 cms)

Nature, given the slightest chance by man, endeavours to survive.Bars o silver and gold lie are seen through dark monolithic slabs o eroded metal.


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46. Red snapper


Pewter, gold leaf,

copper and brass

235/8 x 157/8 inches

(60 x 40 cms)


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48. Memento Mori

Etched around the edges:

Lota lota (burbot),

alosa fallax (twaite shad),

coregonus vandesius

(vendace), coregonus

autumnalis (pollan),

coregonus oxyrinchus

(houting)

Pewter, gold leaf,

copper and brass

337/8 x 171/3 inches (86 x 44 cms)

Memento Mori is a study inspired bysh that have become endangered or

extinct in the artists lie time.

The extinct sh are shown incolourless shadows and theendangered sh are alive with colour.


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Sig

Pewter, g

511/4 x 2


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51. Trout Fossil I


Lead

77/8 x 77/8 inches (20 x 20cm

53. Trout Fossil III


Lead

77/8 x 77/8 inches (20 x 20cm


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55. John Dory



235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 cms)

56. Sticklebacks



235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 cms)

57. Sandeels


Pewter, gold leaf and bra

235/8 x 157/8 inches (60 x 40 c


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59. Sea Trout



331/2 x 331/2 inches (85 x 85 cms)


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61. Brown Trout Head



113/4 X 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

62. Sandeel Heads


Pewter and gold leaf

113/4 X 113/4 inches (30 x 30cms)

63. Sandeel Study



197/8 X 113/4 inches (50 x 30 cms)


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On the easel

Further works to be included in the exhibitionthat were incomplete at time o going to print

Ayu

Bass Blue Marlin

Blue Runners

Bluen Tuna

Bluen Trevally Bonesh

Brown Trout

Burbot

Hatchet Fish Herring

Houting

Mackerel Perch

Permit

Pike Pollan

Rays Bream

Red Snapper

Salmon Sandeel

Sea Trout

Snook Stickleback Tarpon

Turbot

Twaite Shad

Vendace Whales

Sam MacDonald


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Fine Art Broker

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