Patricia MacKinnon-Day is an artist whose work has been exhibited at venues throughout the UK and elsewhere. Specialising in film and installation, her work has generated a series of socially engaged gallery installations and site-specific corporate and public projects nationally and internationally. A recent film, The Start of All Imaginings, about market traders was selected for presentation at the Venice Time Space Existence Architectural Biennial (2023), shown at Palazzo Mora, Venice. The Calling Sheds, a collaborative work about the language and working processes of four UK and Republic of Ireland female shepherds, was exhibited at Tate Liverpool (2019)
Her research challenges the preconceptions of an artist as simply the producer of a product and seeks to examine the artist’s role in the whole process. She has researched local communities for over twenty-five years; her practice is about widening access and working with diverse communities. She endeavours to give voice to the ordinary and reveal hidden identities within specific contexts’ monumental but transient frame.
Born in Glasgow, Patricia holds a BA (Hons) double first with distinction from LJMU (1989) and a Master’s from the Royal College of Art (1994) and gained a PhD from LJMU (2017) and was awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship in 2022