Euan Macleod
Born Christchurch, New Zealand, 1956
Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1956.
He attained a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1979, and moved to Sydney in 1981. He still lives and works in Sydney.
He has had over 50 solo shows in Australia and New Zealand and had taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
His work is represented in many private and public collections, including Te Papa Museum, New Zealand, the National Gallery of Australia and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
He has won a number of prizes including the Archibald in 1999, the 2000 Tattersall’s Landscape Prize, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the Blake Prize for Religious Painting in 2006, the inaugural NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize in 2008, the Gallipoli Prize and the Tattersalls Landscape Prize in 2009 and the King’s School Art Prize in 2011.
In 2010 a monograph, Euan Macleod: the Painter in the Painting, written by Gregory O’Brien and published by Piper Press, was released.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
2016 - Artist in Residence, Police Point, with Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Portsea, VIC
2016 - Artist in Residence, Moonee Beach, with Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Artist in Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC
2015 - Artist in Residence, NZ Department of Conservation (Dusky Sound), NZ 2014 Artist in Residence, Pungalina, courtesy Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Artist in Residence, Waiheke Island, NZ 2012 Artist in Residence, Prestwick, Scotland
2011 - Artist in Residence, Alayrac, France
2005 - Artist in Residence, BIGhART, Trial Harbour, Tas
Artist in Residence, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, NT 1997-08 Lecturer in Painting, National Art School, Sydney
1995 - Artist in Residence, Bundanon, NSW
Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art
1994 - QEII Arts Council of New Zealand Artist in Residence at School of Fine
Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 1993 Artist in Residence, Canberra School of Art
1981 - Moved to Sydney
1977-79 - Diploma Fine Arts (Painting) Canterbury University, Christchurch, New
Zealand
1974-75 - Certificate Graphic Design, Christchurch Technical Institute, New
Zealand