 Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in: |
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| Australia | 23 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Italy | 1 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Niagara Galleries, Australia |
9 |
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Brooke Gifford Gallery, New Zealand |
6 |
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Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Australia |
4 |
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Watters Gallery, Australia |
3 |
Biography: 
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Courtesy by "Niagara Galleries", Richmond, Vic
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1956 Born in Christchurch (NZ)
1974 - 1975 Completed a Certificate Graphic Design, Christchurch Technical Institute
1977 - 1979 Diploma Fine Arts (Painting), Canterbury University, Christchurch
Awards 1993 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art, ACT
1994 QEII Arts Council of New Zealand Artist in Residence at School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1995 Artist in Residence, Bundanon, Canberra School of Art, ACT.
1999 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
2000 Tattersalls Art Prize, Brisbane
2001 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Collections
Allen Allen & Hemsley, Sydney
AMP, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Australian Film Commission, Sydney
Australian Museum, Canberra
Baillieu Myer Collection, Melbourne
Baker & McKenzie, Sydney
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Canterbury University, New Zealand
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Derwent Collection, Hobart
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Euan Macleod produces dark, expressive painting. His heavily textured surfaces are literally scraped, the gritty oil paint smeared across the canvas. These are tough masculine paintings. Out of muted colours, Macleod shapes people and landscapes. A looming figure with long limbs often divides the picture. A vertiginous cliff is sometimes delineated by a rough, raw brushstroke.
Macleod's work can be seen as part of an international return to figurative expressionism. His work exhibits an interest in memory and subjective experience. The gestural marks on the canvas speak of emotion and physical labour. There is a brutal honesty to the work which at times can be quite confronting.
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 32
Solo shows 11
2012
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| Euan Macleod: 30 - Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2011
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| Surface Tension: the art of Euan Macleod 1991 – 2009 - Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW |
2010
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| Walking on Ice - Bowen Galleries, Wellington |
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| Euan Macleod- recent paintings - Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2009
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| Euan MacLeod - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
2006
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| Euan MacLeod - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
2002
2000
Group shows 21
2012
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| Man & Beast - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
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| Realistic Landscape - Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2011
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| Pakiwhaitara – Stories to Tell - Ramp Gallery, Hamilton |
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| Big / Small - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
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| Artworks from the Stockroom - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
2010
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| Miscellanea - Olsen Irwin, Sydney, NSW |
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| Top Guns 2010 - Richard Martin Australian Art, Sydney, NSW |
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| Stock Show - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
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| Il meleto di Tolstoi - Museo della Carale Accattino, Ivrea (TO) |
2009
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| Christmas Show - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
2008
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| Figure in a landscape - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
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| The Great Australian Barbecue - Wilson Street Gallery, Newtown, NSW |
2007
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| School of Fine Art University of Canterbury, 125th Anniversary Group Show - Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch |
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| Double Visions - ORG Orange Regional Gallery, Orange |
2006
2005
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| The Sea - - Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW (closed, 2012) |
2004
2001
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| Archibald Wynne & Sulman Prizes 2001 - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
2000
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| Uncommon World - Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
Australia
| | Galleries Direct, Surry Hills, NSW
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| | Watters Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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New Zealand
| | Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
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| | Bowen Galleries, Wellington
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Collections 2
Australia
| | UTS Gallery - University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW
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| | ORG Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
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