Alastair MacLennan [N. Ireland]
"Stolons" [II]

Performance/Actuation 17.00 - 18.00
Saturday 7th October 2000

Born in Scotland in 1943 and based in Belfast since 1975, MacLennan’s work has traversed the territories of performance and interdisciplinary concerns in a highly evolved political, poetic and compassionate engagement with contemporary issues.

His work has been presented throughout the world and he has most recently represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1999.

Maclennan’s work at trace has been supported by the Ulster University.

Trace award 2007
‘This Is Your Life’

Awarded as part of Cardiff art In Time
The John Boehme Lifetime Achievement Award Award
Recipient: Alastair MacLennan

Normally the award ‘for performance excellance’ is for a work produced during the regular season at TRACE.
However for Cardiff Art In Time it was decided to present a special award to Alastair MacLennan in recognition of his artistic vision & achievement in the field of performance art over the past thirty five years.
The award also honours his contribution to art education as a professor of Fine Art at the University of Ulster in Belfast and for the profound influence he has had, and continues to have, among successive generations of emerging artists.

‘Art to me is the demonstrated wish and will to resolve inner and outer conflict and that pertains to every sphere of human activity in all aspects of everyday life. The problem is to live this, not simply talk it. Words are easy.’
A.M.