ALASDAIR MCLUCKIE

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Education

2005 - 2007 BA of Fine Art, Painting, VCA, Melbourne

2003 - 2004 Dip. Visual Art, RMIT, Melbourne 

Collections

Art Gallery NSW

The National Gallery of Australia

Museum of Old and New Art

Monash University Museum of Art 

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Art Bank

Ten Cubed Collection

Various Private Collections

Solo Exhibitions

2024 The Cabbage Screams Under the Gardeners Knife, SYRUP, Sydney

2022 An Imbalance of Humors in the Body, Murray White Room at Res Artis, Melbourne

2020 OK, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2019 The Honeyed Moon, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2018 The Razor Sharp False Eyelashes of the Gods, Alaska Projects, Sydney

2018 As a Young Snail, a Middle Aged Snail, and an Old Snail, I Was Not a Fast Worker, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2017 Making Zulma/Making Zulma/Feelings, Bus Projects, Melbourne

2017 The Birth of Form, Mothers Tankstation Limited, Dublin

2016 Alasdair McLuckie, Ten Cubed, Melbourne

2016 Doubles, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney

2016 Jungle Paintings, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2016 Moods, The Young, Wellington

2015 Nine Times Modern Man and Moon, Siegfried Contemporary, London, in collaboration with Mothers Tankstation Limited

2015 House of Joy/Hello Ladies, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne

2015 Alasdair McLuckie, with Mothers Tankstation Limited, Liste, Basel

2014 Two Lovers Sit on a Beach Dreaming at the Night Sky as the Waves Wave Hello to their Eternal Moon Friend, Who Smiles and Waves Right Back, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2014 Cosmic Soul Sugar, Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 

2013 Alasdair McLuckie, Ten Cubed, Melbourne

2012 The Method, Turner Galleries, Perth

2012 Pink Lions, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2010 The Sun as my Witness, West Space Gallery, Melbourne 

2010 Fields of Ecstasy, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2009 The Highest Mountain Peaks, Right before Dawn, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Laelia and the Seasons, West Space Gallery, Melbourne

2008 The Hill Dwellers, TCB art inc., Melbourne

Commissions

2023 The Weather, with Studio McQualter for Zimmermann, Paris

Awards & Grants

2021 Ramsey Art Prize (Finalist)

2020 Paul Guest Drawing Prize (Finalist)

2018 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists Book Prize (Finalist)

2015 DR. David & Margery Edwards Trust

2015 Ian Potter Cultural Trust

2013 Qantas SOYA Visual Art Award

2012 Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award

2012 Australia Council New Work Grant

2011 Veolia Primavera Acquisitive Award

2010 Melbourne City Council Arts Project Grant

2008 Melbourne City Council Young Artist Grant


Residencies

2016 Artspace, Sydney

2016 The Young, Wellington

2015 The International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York

2013 - 2015 Gertrude Contemporary Studio Residency, Melbourne

2012 Artspace, Sydney

2012 Turner Galleries Art Angels Residency, Perth


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Group 08, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2023 Spring 1883, with Murray White Room, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

2022 CUT, Murray White Room at Temperance Hall, Melbourne

2022 Listening to Music Played Backwards: Recent Acquisitions, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2022 The Bowerman Collection, The Renshaws, Queensland

2022 Season One, Cromwell Place, London

2021 Art Et Al., Arts Project Australia, Melbourne

2021 Group 07, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2021 Papier-mâché, Missing Persons, Melbourne

2021 Ramsey Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

2021 Peer/Peer David James x Alasdair McLuckie, Art Et Al., World Wide Web

2021 Quarantine Art Fair, with Murray White Room, Commanding Officer’s House, Portsea

2020 Uptown, Various Public Venues, Melbourne 

2020 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

2020 TwentOne_004, TwentyOne, Sydney

2020 The Grey Zone, Artbank, Melbourne

2019 Drawing Folio 3: Abstraction, Blockprojects, Melbourne

2019 With Closed on Monday as part of Flat Earth Society, Cement Fondu, Sydney

2019 Still Life Pt. II, Verge Gallery, Sydney 

2018 On a Tangent, Horsham Regional Gallery, Victoria

2018 Seven Year Itch, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne

2018 Materiality, Home@735, Sydney

2018 In Bloom, Spring 1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

2018 Spring 1883, with Murray White Room, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

2018 Spring Syllabus, J Hammond Projects, London 

2018 Libris Awards : The Australian Artists Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland

2018 Art Basel, with Mothers Tankstation Limited, Hong Kong 

2017 Groupie, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney

2017 9 x 5 Now, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

2017 Group 05, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2016 Sappers and Shrapnel, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

2016 Pattern +, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne

2016 A Collecting Vision: Ten Cubed, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne

2016 Spring 1883, with Murray White Room, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

2015 Untitled Art Fair, with Dutton Gallery, Miami

2015 So far, Ten Cubed, Melbourne

2015 Spring 1883, with Murray White Room, The Establishment, Sydney

2015 Percy Grainger: In the Company of Strangers, The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Melbourne

2014 Gertrude Studios 2014 Part Two, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

2014 Five Perspectives, The Young, Wellington

2014 Pattern, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne

2014 Spring 1883, with Murray White Room, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne

2014 Eight year, Eight Artist, One Wall, with Mothers Tankstation Limited, Liste, Basel

2014 Art Basel, with Murray White Room, Hong Kong

2014 In Free Circulation, Mothers Tankstation Limited, Dublin

2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 

2013 Future Primitive, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2013 Gertrude Studios 2013, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

2013 Theatre of the World, La Maison Rouge, Paris 

2013 Everyday, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2013 Sydney Contemporary, with Murray White Room, Sydney

2013 After Prima Post Vera, Australia Council, Sydney

2013 Art Basel, with Murray White Room, Hong Kong 

2013 10 Years: 30 Residencies, Turner Galleries, Perth 

2013 Preview 13, Murray White Room, Melbourne

2012 Art & Australia Collection 2003-2013, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle

2012 Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart

2011 Group 04, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2011 Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne 

2011 The Five Obstructions, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Primavera 2010, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle & Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 

2011 Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart 

2010 Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2010 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2010 Dream Weavers, Cast Gallery, Hobart

2010 Preview 10, Murray White Room, Melbourne 

2009 RBS Emerging Artist Award, RBS Tower, Sydney 

2009 Fleshless Resurrection, Rear View Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Leper / Messiah, Neon Parc, Melbourne 

2009 Melbourne Connection, Museum of Leon, Mexico

2008 The Devolution Project, West Space Gallery, Melbourne & The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 

2008 Rookie, Deloitte, Sydney

2008 Brothers and Sisters of the Pale Forest, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

Selected Bibliography

2022 Philip Brophy, CUT, https://memoreview.net, December 24

2019 Haylay Morgan, Alasdair McLuckie, Oyster Magazine (The Obsession Issue), Issue 116

2018 Elle Murrell, The Australian Artist Inspired By Matisse, The Design Files, June 4

2018 Liv Spiers, As a Young Snail, a Middle Aged Snail, and an Old Snail, I Was Not a Fast Worker, Art Almanac, April

2017 Rebecca O’Dwyer, Alasdair McLuckie The Birth of Form, mother’s annual 2017, February - April

2016 Rebecca Evans, Alasdair McLuckie, Catalogue Text      

2015 Hannah-Rosanne Poulton, Alasdair McLuckie | Debut at Siegfried Contemporary’ A Taste For Art, October

2015 Dan Rule, In the Galleries, The Age, July 25

2015 Maura Edmond, Alasdair McLuckie, House of Joy/Hello Ladies, primermag.net, July 20

2015 Sabine Himmelsbach, Alasdair McLuckie: Untitled, 2015, Basler Zeitung, June 19

2014 Naima Morelli, Modernism on Gertrude, Trouble Magazine, Issue 117, October

2014 Dan Rule, In the Galleries, The Age, July 19

2014 Dan Rule, Feedback Loops, Vault Magazine, Issue 6, April 

2013 Catherine Leahy, Melbourne Now: Alasdair McLuckie, Catalogue Text      

2013 Dan Rule, A Modern Take on Primitive, The Age, December 7            

2013 Linda Michael, Future Primitive, Catalogue Text

2012 Kelly Fliedner, Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award

Art & Australia, Vol 50, Issue 1

2012 Dan Rule, In the Galleries, The Age, May 5

2012 Dylan Rainforth, Space, The Age, May 2

2010 Courtney Kidd, Debutantes, Australian Art Collector, Issue 55, June - August

2010 Elizabeth Stanton, Cream of the Crop, Art Guide Australia, Issue 67, September - October

2010 Katie Dyer, Primavera 2010: Delicious Industry, Catalogue Text 

2010 Andrew Frost, A Snapshot of the Now, Australian Art Collector, Issue 52, July - September

2010 Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age, May 29 

2009 Ashley Crawford, Leper/Messiah, Australian Art Review, Issue 18, February - April

2008 Mark Feary & Simon Maidment, The Devolution Project, Catalogue Text