Euan MacLeod
Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and moved to Sydney, Australia in 1981, where he lives and works. He received a Certificate in Graphic Design from Christchurch Technical College in 1975 and a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Canterbury in 1979.
Euan MacLeod
- Name
- Euan Macleod
- Born
- 1956
- Birthplace
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Field
- Painting
- Training
- Canterbury University, Christchurch NZ
- Nationality
- Australia · New Zealand
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Ilam School of Fine Arts
- Honours
- Archibald Prize · Dobell Drawing Prize
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Biography
Biography
Euan MacLeod studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts. Work by Euan MacLeod is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Te Whare O Rehua Sarjeant Gallery and Art Gallery of New South Wales. Distinctions recorded are Archibald Prize and Dobell Drawing Prize.
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Key facts
• Name — Euan Macleod • Born — 1956 • Birthplace — Christchurch, New Zealand • Field — Painting • Training — Canterbury University, Christchurch NZ
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Euan MacLeod (born 1956) is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Euan MacLeod was born in 1956.
Style
Style
Macleod deals mostly with landscapes and the human presence within it. The lone, anonymous figure is a common symbol in his work that embodies both the artist's self-portrait and the "Everyman" or universal experience of emptiness, worthlessness and impotence. He has been described as both an expressionist and a symbolist and his dense, textured and sculptural use of paint has become a consistent feature of his work. Macleod is not limited when it comes to the landscapes he paints, feeling equally at home in the picturesque New Zealand countryside and the harsh and flat Australian outback and often painting a hybrid of both landscapes.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Throughout his career, Macleod has exhibited frequently. In 1980 he was involved in his first exhibition Tar Paint Plastic at the Settlement Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand with artists Debra Bustin and Alison Clouston, which was hailed as an "impressive debut" by reviewer Neil Rowe. Since then he has held over 100 solo shows and been involved in over 200 group shows. He exhibits most frequently with Niagara Galleries, Melbourne; Watters Gallery, Sydney; and Bowen Galleries, Wellington. Macleod has been involved in the Melbourne Art Fair since 2004 as well as the Auckland Art Fair since 2007.
Collections
Macleod's work is featured in public and private collections across Australia and overseas. In Australia he is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art and Art Gallery of Western Australia as well as state, regional, university and private collections. Internationally Macleod's work is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and collections throughout New Zealand, including the Chartwell Collection, Saatchi & Saatchi and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Christchurch.
Awards
Macleod was a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 1998 with a 3m wide work "Seascape through Figures" then again in 1999 and 2003 and won the Archibald Prize in 1999, with his painting titled Self portrait/head like a hole. He was a finalist in the Sulman Prize in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000, before winning the prize in 2001, with the painting titled Exquisite Corpse with Fire. Macleod won the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 2006 and the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2009. He was the Archibald Prize finalist in 2018, 2019 and 2021. In 2021 he won the Dobell Drawing Prize with a pastel-on-paper work entitled Borderlands.
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