artists

Alasdair McLuckie

mother’s exhibitions:

Alasdair McLuckie
The Birth of Form

16 February – 1 April 2017

exhibitions:

Ramsay Art Prize 2021 Finalist Exhibition 
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
22 May – 22 August 2021

Alasdair McLuckie
The Razor Sharp False Eyelashes of the Gods 
Alaska Projects, Sydney
10 – 25 August 2018

Alasdair McLuckie
Making Zulma/Making Zulma/Feelings

Bus Projects, Melbourne
5 – 29 July 2017

Alasdair McLuckie
Nine times modern man and moon
Siegfried Contemporary in collaboration with
mother’s tankstation
13 October – 15 December 2015

Alasdair McLuckie
LISTE 20, Basel
June 2015

Born Melbourne, 1984, lives and works in Melbourne

 

While studying fine art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Alasdair McLuckie found himself drawn backwards from the idealised notional western historicisation of the avant-garde, towards what he understood as a more honest path to art, through folk narrative and ‘primitivism’ (while being simultaneously fascinated by its heady influence on early modernism). The subsequent development of McLuckie’s distinctive, obsessive and symbolic visual language is adopted from the disciplines of rudimentary craft and self-taught bead-work, and he equates its process-driven nature to seasonality, cycles and attendant fertility rituals. Accepting the term neo-primitivism as “loose and inaccurate, but inescapable”, his diverse media practice consists of sequences of cyclical bead paintings, collections of vintage ‘West German’ pottery dressed with beadwork skirts, low-relief drawings/ sculptures carved from book-binders’ card, collage-topped-tables, stark wall paintings.

 

His distinctive, exotic – quixotic, even – work has garnered significant curatorial interest in Australia; his first solo exhibition is represented in the collection of MONA, Hobart, Tasmania. His work is also in the private collection of Ten Cubed, where an evolving top ten selection of contemporary artists is collected and exhibited in depth over a ten-year period. Recent activities include solo presentations at Alaska Projects, Sydney (2018), Bus Projects, Melbourne (2017), Ten Cubed, Melbourne (2016), Artspace, Sydney (2016) and Siegfried Contemporary, London (2015). In addition to residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (2015), Artspace, Sydney (2016), and The Young, Wellington (2016), his work has been featured in the survey exhibitions Future Primitive, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013) and Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria (2013). McLuckie is the recipient of the Art in Australia / Credit Suisse Contemporary Art Award (2012), and Qantas SOYA Visual Art Award, (2013). In 2021, he was shortlisted as a finalist for the Ramsay Art Prize administered by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. McLuckie’s first solo exhibition with mother’s tankstation, The Birth of Form, opened in February 2017 in Dublin.

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