Euan Macleod

Sydney based artist Euan Macleod was born in 1956 in Christchurch, New Zealand and gained a Diploma of Fine Arts (painting) at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 1979. He moved to Australia in 1981. Since then he has exhibited extensively in both Australia and New Zealand. He was awarded a residency at the University of Canterbury in 1995, and has been Artist in Residence in numerous locations around the world including Alayrac in France, Waiheke Island and Dusky Sound in New Zealand and the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Macleod won the prestigious Archibald prize in 1999, the Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize in 2000 and 2009, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the Blake Prize in 2006, the New South Wales Parliament’s inaugural Plein Air painting Prize 2008 and the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2009. In 2021 he won the Dobell Drawing Prize, Australia.

Surface Tensions, the art of Euan Macleod 1991-2009, curated by Gavin Wilson, toured six regional Australian galleries finishing in Sydney in 2012. In 2010 Piper Press, Sydney, published Euan Macleod, The Painter in the Painting. This volume, written by Gregory O’Brien, is a major study of three decades of Macleod’s career. The Painter in the Painting, a major survey show of Macleod’s work, was shown at Tauranga Art Gallery toi Tauranga (2014-2015). Curated by Gregory O’Brien, it featured 50 works from 1984 to 2014 and included Macleod’s largest work to date. A selection of works from this show were exhibited around New Zealand as the travelling show Euan Macleod – Painter.

Euan Mcleod is represented in numerous prominent public and private collections internationally including Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Chartwell Collection Auckland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Australia and Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

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Exhibitions:
Fool on a Hill, 2026
June and Henry, 2024
Lessons in Isolation, 2021
High Wire, 2020
Cloud, 2018
New work, 2016

Radio NZ – Euan Macleod interviewed by Kim Hill, 1 September 2018
Artist Website