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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Works by Ewan McDougall (Page 2 of 2)

'All New GE Dogman III'

'All New GE Dogman III'

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchase price: $6000

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'Look! It's Green Man'

'Look! It's Green Man'

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchase price: $4500

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'Drifting in St Clair (Diptych)'

'Drifting in St Clair (Diptych)'

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchase price: $12000

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'Open Slather (Diptych)'

'Open Slather (Diptych)'

  • Oil on canvas
  • Purchase price: $7500

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'Get In Line'

'Get In Line'

  • Oil on canvas
  • 1010mm x 910mm

'Campbell's Bay'

'Campbell's Bay'

  • Oil on board - Triptych
  • 595mm x 575mm + 595mm x 565mm

 
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