"Alastair Mackie's work touches on ideas dealing with primal urges, the passage of time and the unsteady equilibrium of basic existence.
By re-presenting objects or materials in a new and charged way, he changes the way we look at them. The results can be at the same time touching and sombre, both tongue-in-cheek and disturbing.
With Mackie's pieces we are faced not so much with the interpretation of an object, but rather with a melding of kinetic meanings and sensibilities.
Using humour and a sense of the absurd, Alastair makes quiet works that don't belong to any specific temporality -- Works which often combine seduction with a sense of foreboding." (www.allvisualarts.org)
