Euan Macleod: The Painter In The Painting

Author: Gregory O'Brien

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Price : $69.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780975190197
Publisher : Piper Press
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Publication date : May 2010
Dimensions : 300mm X 250mm
Produced in : Australia
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Availability date : October 2010
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Author : Gregory O'Brien
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Dewey classification : 709.2
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Pages : 204
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Writer Gregory O'Brien looks at the works of artist Euan Macleod, and the many strands of Australasian art and history which have shaped them. He explores the ways Macleod has increasingly come to inhabit these tempestuous yet strangely luminous canvases.

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Since his arrival in Sydney from Christchurch in 1981, Macleod's development has been parallelled by the progress - within the paintings themselves - of a lone figure traversing land, sea and sky. This figure is at once Everyman and he is the painter himself. Macleod's canvases are both an awakening and a laying to rest of ghosts. Like Virgil in Dante's Divine Comedy, the walking figure leads the viewer towards new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.