ANGUS MCDONALD ‘RECENT WORKS’ 07.08 -‐ 22.08.15
Born in Sydney in 1961, Angus McDonald studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney between 1993 and 1995. He was awarded the school’s Brett Whiteley Scholarship in 1994 and was also a finalist in the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship in the same year. He has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize four times: in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015. In 1996 he left Australia to live and paint on the small island of Leros in Eastern Greece and afterwards in Italy, continuing his studies at the Florence Academy of Art in 1999/2000. Since 1995, he has had more than 30 solo exhibitions in Australia, Greece, Japan and the UK. McDonald has also exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs across Australia, South-East Asia, Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2006 McDonald traveled to Antarctica as the Expedition Artist at the invitation of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation and visited again 2 years later, as the artist in residence for Aurora Expeditions. He has been a frequent finalist in numerous national art awards including the Sulman Prize, Dobell Drawing Prize, the Country Energy Landscape Prize, The Blake Prize, The Kedumba Drawing Award, The Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize, The Kings School Art Prize, the Hutchins Prize, The JADA Drawing Prize, the Tattersalls Landscape Art prize, the Montalto Sculpture Prize, the Australian Studio Furniture Design Awards and the Salon de Refuse in 2013. McDonald lives and works in Lennox Head on the far north coast of New South Wales.
’Abyss ’, Chalk and charcoal on acrylic washed paper, unframed, 135 x 215 cm, $15,00
’Lessons of History’, Ink Jet Print on Archival Museum Grade Canson Edition Cotton Rag, Etching Paper, Edition of 8 + 2 A.P., image size, framed, 144 x 93 cm, trim size 150 x 100 cm, frame size 163 x 114 cm, $5,900
’Bovine Dreaming’, Oil on canvas, framed, 121 x 184 cm, $18,000
’Bovine Dreaming II’, Chalk and charcoal on acrylic washed paper, framed, 145 x 195 cm, $16,500
‘Roman Holiday’, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 92 x 107 cm, $9,500
’Still ’, Oil on panel, unframed, 120 x 120 cm, $14,000
’Dope’, Oil on canvas, framed, 30 x 40 cm, $4,600
’Dove I - IV’, Oil on canvas, framed, 50 x 50 cm, each $6,600
’Two Doves’, Oil on canvas, diptych, framed, 50 x 100 cm, $14,000
’Bull I - II’, Chalk and charcoal on acrylic washed paper, unframed, 120 x 140 cm, each $1500
Angus McDonald CV Lives and works in Lennox Head, Australia. Academic / Residency 1993-1995 Full time study, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney 1994 Finalist NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, COFA, Sydney 1995 Awarded Brett Whiteley Scholarship, Tutor, Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney 1996-1999 Lived and worked in Leros, Greece 2000-2001 Attended the Florence Academy of Art, Firenze, Italy. Lived, studied & worked in Italy for 2 years 2006 Expedition Painter, Mawson’s Huts Foundation, Australian Antarctic Territory, Antarctica 2008 Artist in Residence, Aurora Expeditions, Antarctica
Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of August 2015. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
Solo Exhibitions (selection) 2015 ‘Deluge’, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney 2014 “black&blue” Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney “Everyday Majesty” Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney 2012 “Elysium” Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney 2011 “Sit Still” Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London “Recent Paintings and Drawings” Greenhill Gallery Perth 2010 ‘The Time in Between”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane “Love Death Cowhide”, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2008 “Recent Paintings”, Degawa, Mitsukoshi Dept. Store, Tokyo “Snort”, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2007 “Antarctica” Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London “Antarctica” Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore “Vessel”, with Fiona Myer, Tim Olsen Gallery Sydney “Recent Work” Degawa, Tokyo, Japan 2006 “Recent Paintings”, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane “Selected Paintings, 2001- 2006”, Retrospective Survey, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore,NSW 2005 “Recent Paintings” Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney “Bull Market”, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney Degawa, Tokyo, Japan 2004 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne 2003 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney 2001 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 1999 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney “Savana”, Leros, Greece 1998 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane 1997 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 1996 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney Coffin Creek Gallery, Mudgee, NSW 1995 Soho Galleries, Sydney
Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of August 2015. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
Group Exhibitions (selection) 2014 ‘Two types of People’ Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery “JADA” Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery “Mosman Art Prize”, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney “So Much More Than a Big Sheep”, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize, Parliament House, Sydney 2013 The Salon de Refuse, SH Ervin Gallery. Sydney On The Table, Gallery artists, Olsen Irwin, Sydney Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery The Kings School Art Prize, Sydney The Tattersalls Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane 2012 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney The JADA Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney “Australian Still Life”, Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW 2011 London Art Fair with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, UK Animalia, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Hewer Street Studios, London The Archibald Prize, AGNSW, Sydney Squared, Greenhill Gallery, Perth Kedumba Drawing Award, Sydney 2010 The JADA Drawing Prize, Gra:on Regional Gallery Piece Gallery, Mullimbimby, NSW London Art Fair, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, UK Inanimate, With Lorraine Pilgrim and Nyst Gallery, Gold Coast Miscellanea, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Blake Prize NAS, Sydney
Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of August 2015. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
2009 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Monalto Sculpture Prize, Monalto Vineyard, Red Hill, Vic Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize, Coffs Harbour Regiional Gallery, NSW “Australian Still Life 1930- Present”, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld Blake Prize, Directors Cut, NAS, Sydney Art Islington, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK Postcard Show, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW “Waiting-A Still Life” - NG Art Gallery, Sydney “FEHVA”, Auction for the Buttery, Bangalow, NSW DESIGN+WOOD, Dank Street Gallery & Powerhouse Museum, Sydney New York Affordable Art Fair, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York, USA Works from the Collection, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore , NSW Jeans For Genes, Children’s Medical Research Institue, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney 2008 “Wish You Were Here” Tweed River Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting (Highly Commended), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW “Food for Thought”, NG Art Gallery, Sydney Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Zaishu collaboration, Zasihu “Workshopped”, in association with the Powerhouse Museum, Chifley Square, Sydney “FEHVA”, Auction for the Buttery, Bangalow NSW Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Canada JADA Drawing Prize, (Awarded Packing Room Prize), Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW Art London, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, UK “Squared” Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney FORM, Olympia, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK Australian Studio Furniture Design Awards, Bungendore Gallery, NSW 2007 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Art London, with Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London Glasgow Art Fair, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Glasgow FORM, Olympia, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UKafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of August 2015. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.
2006 Art London, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London The Grand Opening, ScoV Livesey Art Dealer. Melbourne AucXon For the BuVery, Byron Bay, New South Wales 2005 Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby, New South Wales “30 x 30”, Greenhill Galleries, Perth Art London, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 2004 Chelsea Art, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London 2003 “Alchemy”, screenprints and ceramics, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney & Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Monotypes, Abercorn Vineyard, Mudgee, New South Wales Jeans for Genes touring retrospecXve, Sydney Opera House & Victorian Arts Centre 2002 Australian Vision, with the Australia Council & Degawa, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Nicola Townsend, Tokyo 1999 “Art Sauce”, Australia’s Emerging ArXsts, Natalie Best, Singapore Nicola Townsend, Tokyo 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Jeans for Genes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1998 Monoprints, Coffin Creek Gallery, Mudgee, New South Wales Work from Coffin Creek Shed, Walca Arts Council, Walca, NSW 1997 Devoured by Paint, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney Jeans for Genes, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney SXll Life, Savana, Leros, Greece Mosman Art Prize, (Highly Commended, People’s Choice Award). Sydney PainXng is Not Dead, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney 1996 Selected Works, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney Jeans for Genes, Art Gallery of NSW, AGNSW, Sydney 1995 Lexus Art Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Waverley Art Prize, Sydney Oil Sketches, Savana, Leros, Greece 1994 Fourteen FiguraXve Painters, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, COFA, Sydney Waverley Art Prize, Sydney Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of August 2015. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.