alasdair mcluckie

the method

21 september - 20 october 2012

Alasdair McLuckie is an exciting young artist from Melbourne whose work was featured in the 2010 Primavera exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and toured to Brisbane, Hobart and Perth in 2011.

This annual landmark exhibition of artists aged under 35 drew national attention to his work. He has featured in exhibitions such as Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing at Heidi Museum in 2010, Monanism (2011) and Theatre of the World (2012), both held at the extraordinary Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart.

He stated “through drawing, craft and sculpture, my practice re-invents traditional folklore with a strong formalist sensibility that incorporates elements of modernism, primitivism, psychedelic imagery and 1970’s design. The attention to detail in the work translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation & unifies process, material, image, and concept.”

The Method consists of two quite distinct bodies of new work. The first, a series of collages, explores the notion of choice as a vehicle for creation, with each aesthetic, material and visual decision involved in the making of the work –becoming the work. They were made instinctively from found or readymade images featuring dancers, musicians and actors and images of his own drawings. The second series consists of abstract linear shapes that are created from weaving tiny glass seed beads together and applying them onto a linen surface. This ancient and meticulous craft technique is utilised to create a purely formalist artwork that inherently references the mathematical nature of its materials and application.

McLuckie was born in 1984 and graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne in 2007. The Method will be his eighth solo exhibition in four years, and he now has 20 group exhibitions under his belt since 2006. In 2011 he won the Veolia Primavera Acquisitive Award and in 2012 he was awarded the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award, and an Artspace Residency in Sydney.

Over the past two years his artworks have been acquired by MONA, Artbank, Art & Australia, the Monash University Museum of Art and by many astute private collectors. Alasdair McLuckie is our final Artist in Residence for 2012. He will be staying at the Central Institute of Technology for four weeks and is sponsored by the Turner Galleries Art Angels. Alasdair exhibits with Murray White Room in Melbourne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

untitled [003 + 004] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm [x2] 2012 $2,000 sold
untitled [007] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [008] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500 sold
untitled [009] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [010] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [011] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [012] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [005 + 006] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm [x2] 2012 $2,000
untitled [013] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [014] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [015] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [016] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [017] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [018] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [019] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500	untitled [020] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm 2012 $1,500
untitled [001 + 002] inkjet print + paper collage 42 x 30cm [x2] 2012 $2,000
untitled [big black / black] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300	untitled [big black / dark purple] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300
untitled [big black / pink] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300	untitled [big black / purple] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300
untitled [big blue / orange] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300	untitled [big pink / black] woven glass seed beads on linen 56 x 41cm 2012 $3,300
untitled [small black / dark purple] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750	untitled [small black / orange] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750 sold
untitled [small black / pink] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750 sold	untitled [small black / purple] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750
untitled [small blue / orange] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750	untitled [small pink / black] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750
untitled [small pink / linen] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750	untitled [small pink / orange] woven glass seed beads on linen 51 x 38cm 2012 $2,750