Curriculum Vitae
Artistic philosophy
I search for an art of balance and truth. My sculpture is deeply personal and in making it I am aware of “ the principle themes of human existence: the otherness of nature, the limitations of language and reason, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood and death.” *
I try to see things through“ the eyes of a child” ** while struggling to rouse the “obscure power and penetrating inspiration“ * that is called the duende.
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* Frederico Garcia Lorca
** Henri Matisse
Awards
1974-6 University of Alberta Alumni Association Award in Fine Arts
1978 Alberta Culture Assistance Grant
1978 Canada Council Travel Grant
1978 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship
1982 Edmonton Art Gallery Barcelona Artists Workshop Grant
1982 City of Barcelona Arts Grant
1985 Alberta Culture Project Grant
1986 Alberta Culture Project Grant
1988 Alberta Culture Travel Grant
1990 Alberta Culture Project Grant
1993 Alberta Culture Project Grant
1995 City of St. Albert sculpture commission
2003 Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Facility commission
2004 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
2007 Gregg Distributors Sculpture Commission
2007 Bental Group/Livingston Place Sculpture Commission
2007 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
2009 Canada Council/Alberta Creative Development Initiative Grant
Solo Exhibitions
1981 Edmonton Art Gallery
1982 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1983 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1984 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1987 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1991 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1993 Edmonton Art Gallery
1997 Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2004 Edmonton Art Gallery
2006 Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Albert
2008/09 The Places - Sculpture by Invitation Program, Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton, Alberta
2011 In the Grid, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Related Professional Experience
1980-85 Sessional Instructor, University of Alberta
1982 Attended inaugural Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1986 "Collaboration in Clay" Invitational clay workshop for Alberta artists
1986 Triangle Artists Workshop, Mashomack, New York US
1987 Barcelona Artists Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
1992 Mashomack Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, USA
1992/94 Sessional instructor, University of Alberta
1993 Phillip Berman Sculpture Workshop, Allentown, PA, USA
1994/96 Extensive study of Mayan sculpture and architecture, Guatemala, Yucatan, Honduras, Central America
2005 Advanced study, Florence, Rome, Paris
2008 Advanced study - Historical and contemporary art, Paris
2009 Advanced study - Historical and contemporary art, Madrid, Venice, Florence
2013-16 - Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, City of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
Macklin is unique in his ability to work with essentially the same motifs at any scale, from tiny table sculptures in porcelain to enormous steel constructions. His rising fan like constructions of the 1980s developed into lateral sequences of relatively anonymous curved parts in the 1990s. Macklin’s extraordinary ability to build overall configurations from side-by-side attachments may account for both his poetry and mastery of scale.
Terry Fenton, The Canadian
Public Collections
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University of Alberta
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Sarecom Collection, Calgary
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McDougal Center, Calgary
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Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
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Comino Foundation, Houston, Texas
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Edmonton Art Gallery
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Triangle Trust, New York
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Catalunya Institute of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
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Alberta Foundation for the Arts
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Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta
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Canada Council Art Bank
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Imperial Oil Canada, Ltd.
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Red Deer College
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Gran MacEwan Community College
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Lehigh Valley Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA
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City of St Albert
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Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cheyney University, Cheyney, Pennsylvania, USA
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Francis Winspear Center for Music, Edmonton, Alberta
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University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
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Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Building, University of Alberta
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Belgravia Park – City of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta
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Gregg Distributors, Edmonton, Alberta
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Livingston Place, Calgary, Alberta
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Robert T. Webb Sculpture Park, Dalton, Georgia, U.S.A
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Ductal Precast Facade, University of Alberta Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering
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“Spirit of St. Albert” sculpture commission, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
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Art Gallery of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
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Capital Boulevard Legacy Public Art Project - Canada 150 commission
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"Les jardins de Metis/Reford Gardens, Grand Metis, Quebec, Canada" (Canadian National Historic Site)
Education
1972 University of Alberta, Faculty of Education
1973 University of Alberta, Faculity of Fine Arts, major in sculpture
1974-6 University of Alberta, Department of Extension, Ceramics
1976 Banff School of Fine Arts
1977 Emma Lake Workshop led by Sir Anthony Caro
1978 Received BFA with Distinction, University of Alberta
1979 St. Martins School of Art, London, England, Advanced Studies
