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ABOUT
Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie, BA Hons (fine art)
Born in 1967, Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie is an established artist living and working in Gairloch, NW Scotland. Brought up in remote rural areas of the Highlands of Scotland, Lynn studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 1990.
She enjoys creating in a variety of media and exploring new methods of working. She has exhibited widely and taken part in several community and international projects including The Big Picture, Wild Wood , Landfill art, an International Art Symposium in Russia and is currently collaborating with an Indian artist to create Ceangal, a series of international artist residencies in the NW Highlands. A major project in connection with this was a schools participatory project supported by SNH at Beinn Eighe Nature reserve in collaboration with Indian artist, Somu Desai. She also travelled to India in January 2012 to further develop Ceangal.
In her painting and drawing works she successfully expresses the emotion of the often isolating atmosphere of the Highlands.
She has also worked out of the box, most recently completing an installation work at Inverewe Garden, intended to engage the viewer to consider their sense of place.
Lynn also finds her body a perfect medium to express her artist context and has recently done a performance on Displacement which is an on-going project.
Living in a remote rural area, Lynn has learned to adapt and create opportunities for herself and the area she lives in. She is open to new ideas and is always looking to expand her boundaries in her field of interest of people and place. She connects with the issues of people and place globally and enjoys interacting with people and developing and understanding cutlures around the world.
Links where you can find more information on Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie's work: (just click on the link to take you to the respective site)
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web.archive.org - archive of Lynn's work
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Northings - Arts and Culture in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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Gordon-c-harrison - Landscapes for you
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Handmade in Wester Ross - blog
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elabuga.com - project
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Skinny Artist - 21-artists-to-watch-in-2011
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The Exuberant Home - in-the-atelier-with-lynn-mackenzie
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ceangal.wordpress - Ceangal on the Canal
BBC Alba An La Ceangal 2013. Filmed during the Ceangal 2013 International Artists Residencies for BBC Alba An La (news)
An international collaboration between artists, Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie, Scotland, and Somu Desai, India, to create a series of artists residencies that will broughtartists from around the globe to work in the NW Highlands of Scotland.
Solo shows
Solo Exhibition
Death! I live with it..
Reflect/Connect
Sawyer Gallery, Inverewe House
Ceilidh Place
Residencies
Breath of Epos
Ceangal International artist residency
0km Studio
Ceangal International artist residency
Spying Nature
GNAP – global nomadic art project
Inverewe Garden & estate, NTS
Projects
Wild Wood Community Project
Exchange Group Trip – Wild Wood
The Big Picture
Landfill art project
Breath of the Epos –international art symposium
Smiles
Beinn Eighe schools participatory project
Home - installation
Genesis global school
Mural in Free Church
Mixed shows
An Talla Solais
West Coast Open 3
Highland Open studios
Highland Art Fair
Macmillan show
Highland Open Studios
Highland Art Show
An Talla Solais – West coast open 4
Postcards for sick kids
An Talla Solais – members show 5
Highland open studios
Macmillan highland art fair
Salon de Refuses
Christmas show
ESSA show
Strathpeffer art fair
Members Christmas show
Highland Hospice show
An Talla Solais
ESSA
Artswap 2010
Postcards for sick kids
Art off the rock
Highland Art Fair
Twitterartshow
Artswap II
Smiles
Trees for Life
West Coast Open 8
Postcards for sick kids
Ceangal international artist residency
United Art Fair
Yatoo international
Twitterartshow
127th YATOO-i Nature Art Winter Workshop 2013
129th YATOO Nature art Autumn workshop
Strathpeffer Art Fair
Global Nomadic Art Project
Brit Poppy
Art around the Firth
Art off the Rock
Postcards for Sick Kids
Winter Salon
West Coast Winter Open
Baroda Redux
Twitterartexhibition
Strathpeffer Art Fair
Maggie Blyth Boutique
Loch Torridon community centre
Joint shows
Elements
Elements II
Gallery Artists
Fine Lines – joint show with Kate Mackay
Mixed show
Mixed show
Beauly Gallery
Breath of the Epos – Ivan Shishkin gallery
Joint show
Mixed shows
Wild about Gairloch
Collaboration
Ceangal – director
Global Nomadic Art Project – steering group
Inverewe Garden, NTS Scotland
Eden Court Theatre Inverness 0km studio, Gujarat, India Gairloch Heritage museum
Poolewe
Ullapool
Elabuga, Russia
Gairloch, UK
Pardi, Gujarat, India
Beinn Eighe, Kinlochewe
Wongol, S Korea
S Korea
Poolewe
Gairloch Poland Highlands International Elabuga, Russia Warsaw Beinn Eighe, Scotland Inverewe Garden, Poolewe Noida, Delhi, India
Gairloch
Ullapool
An Talla Solais Ullapool Lime tree, Fort William Strathpeffer Strathpeffer Beauly Strathpeffer Ullapool
Edinburgh
Ullapool
Eden court theatre, Inverness
Foulis Castle
Tore Gallery
Beauly Gallery Edinburgh Strathpeffer
An Talla Solais, Ullapool
Beauly Ullapool Edinburgh
International Edinburgh
Stirling Strathpeffer Moss,Norway International
Warsaw
Edinburgh
An Talla Solais, Ullapool Edinburgh
Gairloch
Delhi, India Romania
Los Angeles, USA
Korea
S Korea
Strathpeffer
S Korea Northampton Beauly Stirling Edinburgh Timespan, Helmsdale An Talla Solais, Ullapool
Art Konsult, Delhi, India
Moss, Norway Strathpeffer
Inverness
Torridon
Gairloch heritage museum Macphail Centre, Ullapool Regent Gallery, Somerset
Regent Gallery, Somerset
Beauly Gallery The Studio, Fortrose Beauly
Elaguba, Russia & to tour Galerie Sigvardson, Denmark Inchmore Gallery, Inverness
Kinlochewe
Scottish Highlands/International
S Korea/International
Poolewe
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Lynn has over the years done various works for illustration purposes including Visitscotland and Two Lochs radio. I have been interviewed for several blogs online. I am a member of Highland Open Studios from 2007- present, An Talla Solais, Ullapool, Visual Arts Scotland, RGI, and Aberdeen artists society.