Euan Macleod

Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1956. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) by the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, in 1979, before moving to Sydney in 1981. He has held more than 100 solo shows in New Zealand and Australia.

Macleod’s 2024 – 2025 major solo exhibition ‘Flux’, at Orange Regional Gallery and The Drill Hall Gallery Canberra [ANU] featured a series of en plain air paintings made on Haupapa Tasman Glacier in New Zealand’s South Island, alongside a suite of studio works whose grand scale emulates their site of inspiration. It opened in Gore, NZ, in May 2025.

In 2023 Euan exhibited a suite of works in a solo exhibition, ‘Summit Road’, at King Street Gallery featuring works with the recurring subject of his mother, old age and frailty contrasting dramatically with the harsh and craggy landscapes of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Surface Tension: the art of Euan Macleod 1991-2009, a Tweed River Art Gallery Touring exhibition, curated by Gavin Wilson, toured six regional Australian galleries, beginning at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, in November 2010. The touring exhibition, Euan Macleod: Painter, curated by Gregory O’Brien, travelled to several New Zealand regional galleries between 2014 and 2017.

Euan’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, the Art Gallery of NSW, Orange Regional Art Gallery NSW,  the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Parliament House, Canberra.

Euan has won The Archibald Prize 1999, The Sulman Prize 2001, The Blake Art Prize 2006, the NSW Parliament’s en Plein Air Painting Prize 2008, The Tattersall’s Landscape Prize 2000 & amp; 2009, The Gallipoli Art Prize, 2009, The King’s School Art Prize 2011 and the Dobell Drawing Prize 2021.