GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Inner Landscape
Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury, UK
6 May - 12 June 2023
This exhibition presents selected works by artists from, or inspired by, Australia and New Zealand, in celebration of our season focused on Antipodean culture and heritage. The collection of work is diverse while the artists are connected by their emotional and psychological engagement with the Australasian landscape and outback topography. It is this deeply-rooted commitment to a sense of place that enlivens their imagination and fuels their practice – the landscape consciously or unconsciously entering their work and, ultimately, their values.
Peter Kingston / Euan Macleod – Travelling North
Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns QLD
21 January - 1 March 2023
Cairns Art Gallery holds a significant collection of works by two artists whose love of travel brought them to far north Queensland over a number of years. In different ways the works of Peter Kingston and Euan Macleod respond to the vibrancy of life in the tropics - celebrating its unique weather patterns, landscapes and people.
WrestleMANIA
Rockhampton Museum of Art, QLD
19 November 2022 - 26 February 2023
Professional wrestling is a strange beast. Not quite sport, not quite theatre, it exists in a grey area between forms as a sincere, misunderstood, and yet incredibly self-aware art form. ‘Wrestlemania’ is an examination of this compelling and dynamic entertainment by 20 contemporary sculptors, painters, cartoonists and new media artists responding to wrestling in all its spectacle, psychology and humour.
2 degrees – Euan Macleod and Rodney Pople
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW
1 October 2022 - 12 February 2023
Friends and well-known Australian artists Euan Macleod and Rodney Pople undertook artist residencies in Dubbo during 2021, observing people and animals at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. Each artist produced sketches and preparatory studies at the Zoo, expanding on these later in the studio. For their first two-person exhibition they have produced large scale paintings and portraits of animals and humans, revealing a sustained engagement with the act of looking and its reverse – being looked at.
Local Knowledge – collaborative paintings by Euan Macleod and Gregory O’Brien
Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton NZ
8 October - 11 December 2022
With Euan Macleod based in Sydney and Gregory O’Brien in Wellington, the works in this exhibition are a continuation of a trans-Tasman conversation which began in 2009 when O’Brien was writing a monograph on Macleod’s art. At times painting in the same room, at other times in different countries, Macleod and O’Brien relish their divergent approaches to art-making. As O’Brien writes, the collaborations set ‘a painterly manner (Euan’s) alongside my graphic approach, which is probably closer to drawing than painting. Whereas Euan conjures movement, my image-making is static; his work is visceral, mine cerebral. Such contradictions fuel our ongoing project, forcing both of us to step outside our comfort zone.’
The Gold Award 2022
Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton QLD
25 February - 15 May 2022
The Gold Award 2022 presents a diverse pool of boundary breaking and thought provoking contemporary Australian art by artists from across the nation. The award is a touchstone of contemporary painting, held every two years where artists are invited to present their practice with new works that have not been exhibited elsewhere before.
Local Knowledge: Collaborative Paintings by Euan Macleod and Gregory O’Brien
He Waka Tuia Art and Museum / Invercargill Public art Gallery, Invercargill, NZ
With Euan Macleod based in Sydney and Gregory O’Brien in Wellington, the works in this exhibition are a continuation of a trans-Tasman conversation which began in 2009 when O’Brien was writing a monograph on Macleod’s art. Upon completion of that project, the exchange of ideas and perspectives migrated to what would soon become an ongoing series of collaborative works on canvas and paper. At times painting in the same room, at other times in different countries, Macleod and O’Brien relish their divergent approaches to art-making.
acrylic on polyester 250x180cm
acrylic on polyester 250x180cm
Stirring the Ash:
Euan Macleod and Andrew Merry
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW
5 June – 25 July 2021
The collaborative exhibition Stirring the Ash showcases paintings by Euan Macleod and photographs by Andrew Merry. The work, along with the written text by Gregory O'Brien, explores fire as being both a destructive and creative force in the Australian landscape. The exhibition is on now at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery until 25 July.
acrylic on paper 58x76cm
acrylic on paper 58x76cm
acrylic on paper 57.5x76cm
acrylic on paper 58x76cm
River to the Sea
Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
19 March – 18 April 2021
Euan Macleod completed a four day residency with Grafton Regional Gallery in September 2020. His paintings of the Clarence Valley will be held in a group exhibition, 'From the river to the sea' at Grafton Regional Gallery, March 2021.
acrylic on paper 38 x 57cm
acrylic on paper 38 x 57cm
acrylic on paper 38 x 57cm
Double Vision:
Euan Macleod and Ron McBurnie
Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
20 March – 15 November 2020
In early 2020, artists Euan Macleod and Ron McBurnie spent time in the Gallery’s Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residency Studio. During their residency, the artists worked en plein air both on the Gallery grounds and across the surrounding region. The aim of this residency was to develop a body of work for an exhibition in the Friends Gallery in March 2020.
oil on acrylic on polyester 180x137cm
oil and acrylic on polyester 100x124cm
oil on acrylic on polyester 180x137cm
Belle Ile: Euan Macleod & Luke Sciberras
Manly Regional Art Gallery & Museum
13 July – 2 September 2018
King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
11 June – 6 July 2019
Paintings by Luke Sciberras and Euan Macleod from their recent expedition to Belle Île, off the coast of Brittany, France.
On this pilgrimage, the artists were following in the late 19th Century footsteps of - and paying homage to - expatriate Australian painter John Peter Russell.
oil on polyester 100 x 124 cm
acrylic on polyester 100 x 124 cm
oil on polyester 100 x 124 cm
Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front
New England Regional Art Gallery Museum; Bathurst Regional Art gallery; ANZAC Memorial Sydney; Bank Art Museum Moree; Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre; Tweed Regional Gallery
March 2018 – February 2020
In 2017, twelve leading Australian artists visited the First World War battlefields of the Western Front, a century after the conflict that claimed so many lives. This exhibition brings together the works they created in response to their experiences.