"In this body of work the readily identifiable architectural scaffolds of earlier pieces have given way to increasingly abstracted linear forms. Each one nestled seamlessly within the geography of the local landscape. With this visual shorthand for the human made Mackenzie found a method of disrupting commonplace ideas of nature as separate from us - something to be looked at and admired from afar. Instead, these succinct hieroglyphs point to a continuing history of place creation where humans and their environments are unshakeably interwoven."
Val McLean, from Dusk exhibition catalogue, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Andrew Mackenzie was born in Banff, north east Scotland, and graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and abroad.
His practice includes painting, drawing, lithography, public art and sculpture, and seeks to explore entangled relationships between the built environment and personal perceptions of nature, with a repeated interest in presenting woodland and human activity as inextricably linked. He has recently moved into large scale site-specific sculpture, with an ambitious project in the woodland at Marchmont House called Woodland Structure, made from steel and cast bronze.
He is represented in several public and private collections, including The Fleming Collection, Marchmont House and The University of Edinburgh. His work has been included in important group exhibitions with The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, the Pier Art Centre, Orkney, the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, the Fleming Collection, London, Edinburgh Printmakers, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Rochester Art Gallery. He has shown in art fairs across the world, including the London Art Fair, Toronto Art Fair, Paris Art Fair and in the Salon Art Fair, New York. Most recently in 2023 he showed in Deep Rooted, with Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Dalziel + Scullion, Katie Patterson and Naomi Mcintosh, curated by the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.
Mackenzie is represented by The &Gallery, Edinburgh and Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, and shows regularly with Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London. In his spare time Mackenzie teaches painting at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh.