LAITH MCGREGOR
b. 1977, AustraliaWorking across drawing, painting and sculpture, Laith McGregor’s multi-disciplinary practice reflects an ongoing inquiry into contemporary portraiture, semiotics of image making and notions of the self. With pieces incorporating laborious, hyper-realistic illustration, accumulations of pen- cil and eraser shavings, and other processes that form a meditative daily ritual, his practice is reso- lutely underpinned by a commitment to physical studio work and the marking of time. McGregor’s works wrestle with the grey area that exists between fiction and non-fiction, negative and positive, black and white, two- and three- dimensions, serving an ongoing inquiry into the complexities of what it means to be human.
McGregor achieved success early in his career for his intricately drawn works, using ballpointpen and pencil, winning the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize (2008), the Qantas Foundation Encour- agement of Australian Contemporary Art Award (2009), and the Emerging New Work Grant by The Australia Council for the Arts (2009). Since then, he has been the winner of the Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2018), National Works on Paper Prize (2012), and the Paul Guest Memorial Prize (2018), and a finalist in many other prizes. He has participated in numerous residencies includ- ing Art Omi New York, HIAP Helsinki and the Barcelona Studio residency through the Australian Council for the Arts. He has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, and is repre- sented in significant institutional collections. McGregor was included in the recent Adelaide Bien- nial of Australian Art 2022: FREE STATE, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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