Max Tannahill
Artworks
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Max Tannahill4 Fish Passing the Trinity House LifeboatWood19 x 99 x 14 "£ 4,500.00
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Max TannahillTwo FishMixed media15 x 57 x 6 "£ 2,800.00
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Max TannahillFlounder IWood, mixed media18 x 9 x 3 "£ 875.00
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Max TannahillSardinesMixed media5 x 11 x 6.5 "£ 945.00
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Max TannahillCompass RoseMixed media22 x 89 x 14 "£ 6,500.00
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Max TannahillSoleJarrah wood and copper roves36 x 11 x 4 "£ 1,950.00
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Max TannahillSoleBronze19 x 9 x 3 "£ 6,000.00
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Max TannahillWooden SoleMixed media19 x 9 x 3 "£ 1,250.00
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Max TannahillFlounder IIWood, mixed media17.5 x 10 x 3 "Sold
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Max TannahillSole 1Wood, mixed media20.5 x 4.5 x 1.5 "Sold
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Max TannahillSole IIWood, mixed media20.5 x 5 x 1.5 "Sold
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Max TannahillBlue BoatMixed media24.5 x 72 x 16 "Sold
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Max TannahillBlue Whale22" x 45" x 5"Sold
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Max TannahillLittle FishWood10 x 3 x 1 "Sold
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Max TannahillOld WhaleWood and Metal19 x 65 x 3 "Sold
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Max TannahillFour Hanging FishMixed Media63 x 13 x 12 "Sold
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Max TannahillYellow BoatWood29 x 56 x 10 "Sold
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Max TannahillSmokehouse IIMixed media29 x 14 x 10 "Sold
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Max TannahillSardinesMixed Media5 x 11 x 6.5 "Sold
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Max TannahillLarge Blue WhaleMixed media8 x 72 x 2 "Sold
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Max TannahillSole. ed.2/10Bronze18 x 9 x 2 "Sold
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Max TannahillToucan in a TreeMixed Media10 x 8.5 x 11 "Sold
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Max TannahillTwo FishMixed media14 x 45 x 8 "Sold
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Max TannahillBlue Boat IIIMixed media25 x 110 x 19 "Sold
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Max TannahillHerrings (After John Craske)Mixed Media12 x 9.5 x 1.5 "Sold
About
Max Tannahill is from Bangor, Co.Down, in the north of Ireland. He travelled to Australia where exposure to the work of aboriginal artists left a deep impression. Max returned to England in 1989 to study bookbinding for two years and it was during this period, living in the Essex coastal village of Wivenhoe, that he started carving his unique fish from the plentiful supply of driftwood gleaned from the shoreline and estuaries nearby.
Artist statement
"Finding material entails a lot of walking along shorelines here in Essex and abroad. I have brought stuff home from the west coast of Ireland to southern Italy to use in my work. Utilizing old boat material is something I find particularly satisfying, it gives it another chance. The old paint, copper roves, the years of boat building skills are all embodied in the pieces. I do buy wood as well. I use slow grown Douglas fir from Canada.
"I admire the naive style of Alfred Wallis, the block colour of Paul Gauguin and a thousand other artists and sculptors I have looked at, but don't necessarily draw anything from them in a conscious manner, like Henry Moore or Elizabeth Frink and Francis Bacon. My time in Australia and observing a great amount of sculpture by aboriginal artists was an eye opener. I realised that things that items which appear relatively simple in form are actually extremely considered pieces of work and have taken years of development. My own work has been developing over nearly thirty years and I do enjoy that aspect."
Style
Max Tannahill's sculptures vary enormously in size from small individual flat fish to 4 metre long installations of shoals of fish swimming alongside boat remnants. Lead and copper are sometimes incorporated into the fish he creates. His world is essentially simple; imagined, and governed to a large extent by the constraints of the material.
Exhibitions
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Annual Exhibition 2024
28 May - 30 Jun 2024 Aldeburgh -
Christmas Exhibition 2023
Aldeburgh 2 Dec 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 Aldeburgh -
Max Tannahill
New Sculptures 28 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 Harpenden -
Annual Exhibition 2023
10 Jun - 2 Jul 2023 Aldeburgh -
40th Annual Exhibition
4 - 26 Jun 2022 AldeburghThe largest of the galleries' exhibitions, the Annual Exhibition features Modern British and contemporary artists, some new, some regulars, some returning faces, and some we could never leave out!Read more -
Annual Exhibition 2021
12 Jun - 4 Jul 2021 AldeburghThe largest of the galleries exhibitions, after the success of our Modern British exhibition this time the Annual features all contemporary artists, some new, some regulars, some returning faces, and...Read more
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Catalogues
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Annual Exhibition 2023
Aldeburgh, 2023 Read more -
40th Annual Exhibition
Aldeburgh, 2022 Read more -
Annual Exhibition 2021
Aldeburgh, 2021 Read more -
Max Tannahill
Of Sky & Sea London, 2020 Read more -
Autumn Exhibition 2020
London, 2020 Read more -
Autumn Exhibition 2019
London, 2019 Read more -
Autumn Exhibition 2017
London, 2017 Read more
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