Christopher McClelland

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Artist Name:	Christopher McClelland
Main Focus:	Painting
Usual Style:	Contemporary
Usual Medium:	Oil
Art Group:	Wildlife Art Society of Australasia
State:	Western Australia
Region:	Perth Region
Exhibits Art:	Yes
Online Sales:	Yes
Tuition:	Yes
Commissions:	Yes

Background

Christopher McClelland, has exhibited widely within Australia and also in exhibitions of Australian art in London, Paris and New York. He has held eleven solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions. His artworks are held in a variety of public, corporate and private collections both in Australia and overseas. Christopher studied Art at the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne University. He is represented in Perth by Harvison Gallery, Brisbane St, North Perth. The latest works are open ended narratives that can be read on many levels. On one level they are simply an intuitive exploration of beauty and aesthetics. On a more conscious level, the works explore cultural identity, blending the whimsical with the atmospheric. The paintings are an eclectic mix of the past and present, the wide open spaces of Australia and the traditional images of French and Italian culture. For non-Indigenous Australians, there has always been the question of cultural identity and where we fit. "Over several years I have been travelling regularly to Italy and France. I have always felt a strong resonance with the art of the Renaissance and the European cultural traditions. The paintings by the early Renaissance artists such as Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico and Perugino are particularly special to me. We would arrive back in Australia and literally feel like fish out of water. It was almost like a cultural identity crisis. I decided to represent this by juxtaposing symbols of the European tradition with representations of Western Australia: space, vast skies and oceans and endless highways cutting through dry flat scrub land."

Qualifications

Bachelor of Fine Art

Bachelor of Education in Creative Arts

Exhibitions:

2016: Group exhibition, Harvison Gallery, North Perth

2016 Fine Art at Hale, Annual invitation exhibition.

2016: Soroptimist International Art Auction, Invitation Exhibition, Fremantle

2016: Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA, finalist.

2016: Wannaroo Art Awards, WA, Finalist

2015 Solo Exhibition: Perugino and the Great Eastern Highway. Harvison Gallery, Brisbane St, Perth.

2015 Artist Chronicle, Invitation Exhibition in support of the homeless. Fremantle WA

2015 Fine Art at Hale, Annual invitation exhibition.

2015 Finalist, City of Wannaroo Art awards

2014 Finalist, Town of Claremont Art Awards

2014 Solo Exhibition, A Fish out of Water: A Cultural Identity Crisis

Kidogo Art Institute, Fremantle

2013 Solo Exhibition: Chrissie Parrott Arts, Perth

2013 Fremantle Festival, Mysteries of the Ocean, Invitation Exhibition

2013 Fremantle Heritage Festival Invitation Exhibition

2011 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2009 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2007 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2005 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2004 Solo Exhibition: Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2003 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

2002 Redcliffe Art Award

2001 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

1999 Art Sans Frontieres Melbourne

1999 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney

1997 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney

1999 Soho Gallery Sydney

1996-2003 Qantas Lounge, Sydney international Airport

(Through Valerie Cohen Fine Art, Paddington, Sydney)

1998 Australian in New York Gelabert Studios New York

1998 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney

1997-1998 Australian in Paris Gallerie Miromesnil Paris

1997 Valerie Cohen Fine Art Paddington Sydney

1996 Solo Exhibition: Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney

1996 Australian in London Mall Galleries, London

1996 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery Sydney

1994 Solo Exhibition: SeymoreCentre Sydney

1994 Gold Coast Invitation award

1993 Gold Coast Invitation Exhibition Gold Coast City Art Gallery

1992 Gold Coast City Art Gallery

1992 Suncorp award Certificate of Distinction

1990 Jacaranda Gallery Grafton NSW

1990 Solo Exhibition: Artspace, Brisbane

1989 Tweed River Art Centre Murwillumbah NSW

1987 Artspace Brisbane

1985 Chetwynd Gallery North Melbourne

1982 Chetwynd Gallery North Melbourne

1980 Solo Exhibition: Chetwynd Gallery North Melbourne

Galleries:

Christopher McClelland is represented by Harvison Gallery, Brisbane Street, Perth and works from The Robertson Park Artist Studios, Fitzgerald Street, West Perth.

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