Projected Outcomes is an exhibition of Alastair and Fleur Mackie’s collaborative practice, presenting their quietly methodic and lyrical approach to art making. Featured works draw on a relationship to the landscape, particularly the immediate surroundings of the North Cornwall coastline where the artists have lived since 2011.
Devon and Cornwall’s beaches and shoreline are subject to real world tensions between sustainability and economic exploitation. Equally, they are spaces where imagination, myth, and personal experience all fold into each other. The artists’ recent body of work looks to the coast as a place of ecological precarity, rooted in these long histories of industrial extraction and the commodification of leisure.
Exploring the marginal and unseen spaces of the coast, Alastair and Fleur gather natural and industrial materials which they transform into objects that hover on the edges of perception. Each artwork speaks to the circumstances of its origin, sparking connections across time and space. Materials include cuttlebone, derelict fishing gear and sub-fossilised oak. These dislocated fragments wash up on the tide and highlight the extent to which we find ourselves at odds with the natural environment, echoing the tensions and contradictions of what the coast means to us today.
Join us for the opening event on 29 May (6–8pm). Alastair and Fleur Mackie will be in conversation with KARST’s Head of Programme, Ben Borthwick, on 12 July (12–1pm). Curator’s Tours for Projected Outcomes will be on 20 June and 25 July (1–2pm).
