B. 1956

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Euan Macleod is an esteemed contemporary artist. He is best known for his textual landscapes, often haunted by a lone and anonymous figure, characterised by the artist as an “everyman”. At once disquieting and beautiful, Macleod’s imagery taps into the aches of human existence, putting form to universal feelings of loneliness and unworthiness. 

Macleod is represented across public collections in Australia, New Zealand and overseas, including National Gallery of Victoria, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He won the Archibald Prize in 1999, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the New South Wales Parliament’s inaugural Plein Air painting prize in 2008 and Gallipoli Art Prize in 2009, among others. 

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