Calum Angus Mackay

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Overview

I met Calum Angus in his office in Stornoway, to pick up a print I was buying for the collection. I’d recently seen his exhibition ‘Indigenous’ and was interested in a work called Frozen Bait that wasn’t in the exhibition but I had seen referenced in a book I was researching. His work intrigued me, and in particular his early still life work. So much so that it wasn’t long before I had committed to buying four of his photographs.

Calum Angus MacKay combines a crofting life in the Western Isles with a career in Gaelic broadcasting and his activities as a photographer.

In the past he has used wild and domesticated animals as subject matter, making reference to local history and folklore. He manages to produce work that is not nostalgic or sentimental.

In his recent exhibition ‘Indigenous’ at An Lanntair in Stornoway, much of his new work provides a fascinating insight into the generations of his own family as well as the crofting communities from where he was brought up.

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