William McKeown made paintings, drawings, prints and installations that captured the openness and life-enhancing power of nature.
Guided by a belief in the primacy of feeling, his paintings often appeared at first to resemble objective minimalism or the monochrome. Yet they offered much more: nature as real and tangible, all around us, something to be touched and felt.
Each painting is slightly off square, undermining the perfection of geometry, and scaled roughly to the size of the human chest, as if mirroring the capacity of our lungs to breathe in air.
Sometimes presented in ‘room installations’, his works act as windows out onto the world – an escape from the repression and mundanity of everyday life and into the lightness and expansiveness of the sky, using subtle gradations of tone to create moments of exquisite beauty and bliss…
- 9 Oct 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
- Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
- Price: Free, but booking is advised
More information and booking: themaclive.com/exhibition/william-mckeown-and-that-moment-the-bird-sings-very-close
