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Alastair MacKinven
British artist (1971–2025)
Alastair MacKinven (1971 – January 2025) was a British visual artist based in London working on figurative painting and portraiture, film, and performance.[1][2] He was a lecturer in painting at the University College of London's Slade School of Art and professor of the Figurative Painting Class in the Viennese Academy of Fine Art until his death in 2025.[3] He held a BFA from Alberta College of Art, Calgary, in Canada (1994); and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London (1996).[4]
Life and career
Alastair MacKinven's paintings touch on figuration, mythology, the physical and natural worlds depicting ethereal color combinations to present human and non human bodies and objects.[5][6]
His first performance film work, All the Things You Could Be by Now If Robert Smithson's Wife Was Your Mother, which depicted the artist in nude, was exhibited in London in 2007.[7&#