William Mackrell (b.1983) lives and works in London
Mackrell works out of performance, etching and painting leaving behind traces and fragile assemblages that delve into bodily sensations of touch, absence and desire.
Recent solo exhibitions include STRIP Lungley Gallery, London (2023), LISTE Basel LUNGLEY Gallery (2022), A painter in the house of letters Musée Delacroix Paris (2021), Do not go gentle into that good night RYDER Madrid (2020), Rage rage against the dying of the light LUNGLEY Gallery London (2020), Here is where we meet Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2019), Proyectos ARTBO (2019) Bogota curated by Aaron Cezar.
Selected Museum and Institutional exhibitions include 15th International Festival of Visual Arts, Lapidarium Museum Novigrad (2024), What’s new? Collecting for Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery UK (2023-25), Bodyscapes Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020), Let there be light Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne (2019), Aquarius, Pre-Raphaelite Rooms, Manchester Art Gallery, UK (2018), Drawing: the Beginning of Everything Buffalo AKG Art Gallery, USA (2017), Infinite Jest Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK (2012). Mackrell was awarded the Manchester Contemporar Art Fund (2017) and supported by Fluxus Art Projects (2021) for his exhibition at Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, Paris. Residencies include Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2023 & 2017) and LaunchPad, France (2019).
Museum & Public collections include Buffalo AKG Art Gallery, USA Contemporary Art Society, London, Israel Museum Jerusalem, Yuan Art Collection Switzerland, Manchester Art Gallery UK, Goldsmiths Alumni Collection UK, Krinzinger Collection Vienna and Justin Art House Museum Melbourne. William graduated from the MFA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths (2016) and BA Painting at Chelsea College of Art, London (2005).
Represented by LUNGLEY Gallery London, The RYDER Madrid, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Contact wbcmackrell@gmail.com