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Eòghann MacColl was born in Inverness in 1970. He recieved a BA First Class Degree with Honours in Drawing & Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee in 1992. In 1994 he then completed a Masters in European Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, spending the majority of the time in Barcelona. MacColl spent subsequent time in Catalonia, both in the Pyrenees and again in the city of Barcelona where he has exhibited and was involved in a major public art work project in 2006. In 2005 he was the recipient of the RSA Alasdair Salvesen Travel Scholarship. In that year he visited Shetland, Faroe, Iceland, Nova Scotia & Newfoundland. As a Gaelic speaker he chose the places because of their affinity, culturally & geographically, with his own experience. This affinity is reinforced by his links with County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland where he is a Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. In 2008 MacColl will take up post at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, Scotland's Centre for Gaelic Language, "dreuchd an Neach-ealain Lèirsinnich" or Visual Artist in Residence. This an opportunity supported by SMO, RSA & SAC. As a visual artist, MacColl has been involved in various educational projects in schools, predominately in Ayrshire, Skye & Lochalsh. To describe his work he writes: 'S e obraichean mu dheidhinn eachdraidh, cànan is dualchas a th' annta. Uaireannan, 's e stuth stèidhhich mar collage a th' ann. Chuir nam obair urram air àiteachean fàsail 's a' feuchainn ri chuir beatha air ais. Around the peripheries of Europe, inspiration emerges from the soft way the rural & urban fuse. Drawn from the coasts of the North Atlantic, the pieces are the vehicles for histories, language and culture.
