Euan Macleod

B. 1956

Swingbridge, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 2700 x 1100 mm $36,000

Hold Fast, 2021, oil on polyester, 1800 x 1370 mm $34,000

Dog Man Trinity Inlet, oil on polyester 1200 x 840 mm $18,000

Life Line, 2020, oil on polyester 1200 x 840 mm $16,000

Cloud Leap (Study) 2018-2019, oil on polyester 760 x 560mm $8500

Sailor's Warning 2018, oil and acrylic on polyester, 1000 x 1240mm $19 500

Advancing below night sky, 2017, oil on polyester 560 x 760 mm $8500

Cave dog 2024-25, oil on polyester 650 x 680 mm $9500

Walking dog on leash, Evans Bay, 2024, oil on polyester, 565 x 780 mm $8000

Sunshower 2024, oil on polyester, 650 x 850 mm $12 000

Lights on hills, Queenstown, 2017, acrylic on paper, 730 x 885 mm $6300 (framed)

Skippers, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 530 x 600 mm $6000

Large Figure on Ladder Crossing 2020, oil on polyester 705 x 650mm $6500

Banks Peninsula couple with stile, 4/24, oil on polyester, 360 x 515 mm $5000

Walking on wall, Sumner, 1-4/24, oil on polyester 380 x 510 mm $5000

Walking in rain horizontal, Banks Peninsula, 4/24, oil on polyester, 380 x 510 mm $5000

Works on paper

Limited edition prints

Artist Biography

Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1956. He gained a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University in 1979, before moving to Sydney, where he still resides, in 1981.

Euan has held more than 50 solo shows in New Zealand and Australia, and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions both in Australasia, and internationally. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Euan has won numerous Australian art prizes, including the Archibald in 1999, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the Blake Prize in 2006, the New South Wales Parliament’s inaugural Plein Air painting prize in 2008, the Tattersall’s Landscape Prize in 2000 and 2009, the Gallipoli Art Prize, 2009, and the King’s School Art Prize in 2011. In 2020, he collaborated with Lloyd Jones on High Wire, a book of drawings and words, which was published by Massey University Press.

Macleod’s practice deals predominantly with landscapes, but the recuring inclusion of mysterious, often indistinct figures, alters the way we read his work. Whether these figures were intended as self-portrait, or as a symbol of universal experience, Macleod’s expressive, textured brushstrokes create an environment where the sense of disquiet, the feeling of enduring, is such that you can feel the biting cold, the fierce wind, and the warmth of the fire, as if this journey was your own.

https://www.euanmacleod.com/

Solo Exhibitions

  • Six new works – Tasman Glacier, 2022
  • Hold Fast, 2021
  • Drawings and etchings for High Wire, a book by Euan Macleod and Lloyd Jones, 2020
  • Clouds and caves, 2019 (Auckland & Wellington)
  • Four works, South Coast, 2018
  • A Backward glance, 2017
  • Rope, 2015
  • High Water, 2013
  • Euan Macleod, Waiheke Community Gallery, 2011
  • Walking on Ice, 2010
  • Euan Macleod, Auckland Art Fair, 2007
  • New works on paper, 2007
  • Painting for Houses, 2005-2006

Group Exhibitions

  • Look out with Craig Potton, 2024
  • Wrapped, 2023
  • Euan Macleod & Geoff Dixon: Portraits of Us, 2023
  • Land is the mother of man, 2022
  • About time, 2021
  • Wrapped, 2019
  • Stock Show, 2018
  • People – Painting, drawing, sculpture, 2017
  • What’s in the drawers, 2017
  • Joanna Braithwaite…and friends, Auckland Art Fair, 2016
  • SEAT and BAG: Four Australian artists cross the Tasman, 2015
  • Wrapped, 2015
  • Summer show, 2014
  • Wrapped, 2011
  • En plein air, 2010
  • New works on paper, 2009
  • And while we are away…2008
  • 50 small works, 2007
  • Landscape, 2006
  • Lineage: Euan Macleod and June Macleod, 2004