THE CABBAGE SCREAMS UNDER THE GARDENERS KNIFE
ALASDAIR MCLUCKIE
11 MAY 2024
1 JUNE 2024
Traditionally rooted in broad folk narratives, Alasdair McLuckie’s recent practice pivots towards an engagement with and appropriation of Modernism. Through this shift, McLuckie delves into the ongoing dynamics and history of influence and legacy.
Each picture serves as a compilation of folded and replicated collages, meticulously crafted with formalist sensibilities, consuming and digesting them to produce new paintings and mythologies. This process of repetitive appropriation becomes a crucible for the myth-making of the artist’s material process and delves deeper into the layers of influence and inheritance, invention and imitation, ownership and theft. It becomes an exploration of the consumption and digestion of history in the present moment. Through “The Cabbage Screams Under the Gardners Knife,” McLuckie offers viewers a meditation on the transformative power of art and the intricate interplay between tradition and innovation.
Alasdair Mcluckie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 and currently lives and works in Melbourne/Naaram. McLuckie has exhibited extensively both Nationally and internationally. Notable exhibitions include Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010. The Birth of Form, Mothers Tankstation Limited, Dublin, 2017. Spring Syllabus, J Hammond Projects, London, 2018. Listening to Music Played Backwards, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2022. McLuckie’s works are held at significant national and international exhibitions, including the Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Australia, MONA, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Artbank, and Ten Cubed Collection.