Press Release
Martin Browne Contemporary is pleased to present Local Heroes, an exhibition of new paintings by McLean Edwards that showcase Edwards’s singular interpretations of contemporary portraiture. Edwards articulates the eccentricities and foibles of the human condition in paintings that are revealing and often autobiographical. Honest and unflinching, Edwards lays himself bare in many of his works. He invites (and at time provokes) the viewer to enter into the worlds depicted in his paintings. These worlds are a collision of the personal and the fictional, the familiar and the estranged. As a cheeky and at times controversial guide, Edwards introduces us to his ever expanding cast of characters - childhood icons, artists, friends and enemies are among those invited to share the stage.
About the Artist

McLean Edwards studied at the Canberra School of Art and had his first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1995. In 1997, Edwards spent a year in Jakarta.

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About the Gallery

Martin Browne Contemporary is dedicated to showing the finest in Australian and International modern and contemporary works of art. The gallery combines a program of new work by its exhibiting artists with curated exhibitions of selected works from the secondary market.

Complementing its exhibition program, Martin Browne Contemporary produces an extensive range of publications. The gallery's comprehensive mailing database ensures these publications reach all major Australian and New Zealand public museums and private institutions as well as over 3000 private collectors in Australia and abroad.

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Martin Browne Contemporary
15 Hampden Street, Paddington, NSW, Sydney, Australia

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10.30am – 6pm
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