Artist Profile – Ewan McDougall
Since the early 1990s, McDougall’s characteristically grinning stick-figures have drummed and waved their way across his loud, impasto canvases – like rock-star hedonists partying hard after the concert, or acid-freaks set loose in an abattoir (McDougall played in psychedelic bands in the 1970s and spent 13 years as a freezing worker). Seemingly naive, McDougall’s paintings are, in reality, slyly sophisticated dissections of art, consumerism and contemporary New Zealand culture. However cutting, McDougall’s satires are, nonetheless, basically good-humoured and reflect his admonishment to ‘give everything to affirm yourself, your talent and your passions. And stuff the negative voice!’
Awards
- 2006 - New Zealand Portrait Gallery Adam Portrait Awards, Finalist
- 2001 - 2005 - Wallace Art Awards, Exhibited Finalist
- 1998 - Cleveland Art Award, Dunedin, Merit Award
Exhibitions
- 2009 Ewan McDougall 'Hard Out: Twenty Years of Painting' (COCA)
- 2008 Ewan McDougall - 'Open Slather' (COCA)
- 2007 'Painting or Death' - Fisher Galleries, Wellington
- 2005 'Wot th’ - Temple Gallery, Dunedin
- 2005 'Wot th' - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, London-Chelsea Art Show
- 2004 'It’s A Funny Old World' - Moray Gallery, Dunedin
- 2003 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Southern Heat
- 2003 ' Fire' - COCA Gallery
- 2002 'Sick Parade' - Christopher Moore Gallery, Wellington
- 2002 'Let There Be Bright!' - Moray Gallery, Dunedin
- 2002 'Loud!' - Gallery 2021, Auckland
- 2002 'Rush' - COCA Gallery
- 2001 'Flashback, A Survey of Painting 1989-2001' CoCA Gallery
- 2001 'Let There Be Bright!' - Christopher Moore Gallery, Wellington
- 2001 'Real Life' - Moray Gallery, Dunedin
- 2000 'Look what the wind blew in!' - Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
- 2000 'Nasty shortish and Brut' - Christopher Moore gallery, Wellington
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