McLean Edwards
Re-imaginings: Nostalgia and cultural memory in the paintings of Dani McKenzie and McLean Edwards
andrewmcilroy.comAndrew McIlroy
April 28, 2020
The packed dance floor each Thursday evening at the Rainbow Hotel in the hip inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy was wedged between the corner of the bar and the heavy crimson drape masking the dimly lit entrance to the beer garden, the room thick with cigarette smoke, for the most part.
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McLEAN EDWARDS VIRTUAL TOUR
May 2020Explore the exhibition with a virtual tour - level 1 and 2
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McLean Edwards Artist Talk
OLSEN GalleryJune 2019
Artist Talk at OLSEN Gallery, Sydney with McLean Edwards 2019
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Mclean Edwards | Winner of 2019 King's School Art Prize
September 2019OLSEN Gallery congratulates McLean Edwards, winner of this years prestigious King's School Art Prize with Dining In, 2019 (pictured). Now in its twenty-fifth year, The King's School Art Prize has been awarded to some of Australia's leading contemporary artists.
The King's Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive award presented to the artist judged the best contemporary artwork, created by an artist resident in Australia and represented by a commercial gallery, supporting both the artists and the fine arts industry. Entry is by invitation only and the finalists are selected by an appointed Art Prize panel.
Congratulations to OLSEN Gallery artists Chris Langlois and James McGrath who were also selected as finalists in this years prize.
McLean Edwards
Aritist ProfileSaskia Beudel
Issue 47 | 2019
EDITOR’S NOTE
McLean Edwards said to writer Saskia Beudel, as they spoke in his studio, ‘We should be fearsome, us artists and writers. People should tremble when we enter the room.’ Few painters can claim to be an inspiration to their generation as Edwards can.
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CONGRATULATIONS to McLEAN EDWARDS this year's winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize.
May 2019Established in 1936 the Sulman Prize is awarded to the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist. Edwards? explains that this work is about romantic engagement. ?My protagonist holds an apple/phone and is surrounded by new-growth leaves. There is a tree stump, stripped bare; febrile and baleful with one eye open. My hero?s coat is of the 'look at me?' variety, a map of roads, the pattern a bitumen colour and rather uneven?. Edwards has a forthcoming exhibition ?Everything Once? opening on May 22.
'The first girl that knocked on his door', 2019 oil on canvas 153 x 122.5cm Edwards.
Review - Unmasking the portraiture of McLean Edwards
www.andrewmcilroy.comAndrew McIlroy
July 9, 2018
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judge, Wendy Sharpe, described Tim Storrier's 2017 winning painting of fellow Australian artist McLean Edwards as "an arresting, intriguing image at once both disturbing and playful". Storrier's portrait of his friend in The Lunar Savant (Portrait of McLean Edwards) indeed presents such a contrast.
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Experience Dramartistry with Mclean Edwards as presented by the Sydney Art Quartet at Yellow House. Deep, rich & stormy music fuses with psychological portraiture when Mclean Edwards joins the Art Quartet. Sink deep into sound while McLean Edwards depicts an inner world - all in his darkly humorous & magnetic style. Your own sketch kit is welcome to add to the drama for these unique concert experiences.
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Head to head Tim Storrier v McLean Edwards in Australia's richest art prize
The Daily TelegraphJacqui Taffel, Wentworth Courier
17 October 2017
ARTIST McLean Edwards is all over the Doug Moran portrait prize this year.
The two paintings he entered, of film maker Warwick Thornton and a self-portrait, were selected as semi-finalists. The self-portrait made it into the finalists, as did Tim Storrier’s portrait of Edwards, both vying to win $150,000 this week in Australia’s richest art prize.
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