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Andrew McLeod

b.1976

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

Andrew McLeod - A Cautious Paralysis

Archival inkjet print

A Cautious Paralysis

This digital print is a large architectural floor plan of a group of small houses clustered close together. It is rife with diagonally aligned white lines that look disembodied, floating in tilted isolation, almost as if they are a kind of writing or musical score – referencing the early work of Mondrian or Titirangi McCahon, perhaps. These tiny windowed enclosures are coolly observed from God’s eye. In this aerial view, they are so close to each other they look like an open plan arrangement of one huge sprawling building.

Essay

Dimensions: 1120x1610mm

Andrew McLeod - I Love You Landscape

Oil on canvas

I Love You Landscape

Andrew McLeod is an artist who uses drawings, paintings and computer graphics to portray the interior world of his mind. Whichever medium McLeod chooses, random objects float in an imaginary world where perspective, weight and shadow don’t exist. McLeod calls this particular painting a ‘landscape’, but it is more like a mindscape – a world that is illogical and impossible. Like the Surrealists, McLeod is interested in provoking the viewer with bizarre visual juxtapositions. But unlike the paintings of Salvador Dali or Giorgio de Chirico, whose odd combinations of objects are all painted in a consistent, realistic style, McLeod throws different subject matters and different styles into the pot, to create a strange brew of images.

Essay

Dimensions: 900x1250mm