Stewart macfarlane biography

Figurative painter Stewart MacFarlane (1953-) was.
Stewart Angus MacFarlane (born November 1953, Adelaide, South Australia), is an Australian figurative painter.
Stewart MacFarlane is an Australian artist.

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Artist CV

Born 24/11/53, Adelaide, South Australia

Education

1984 Post-graduate Studies (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), School of Visual Arts, New York City, U.S.A.
1976 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, U.S.A.
1974 Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting), South Australian School of Art

Collections

Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania
Alice Springs Art Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Northern Territory
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Artbank, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland
Curtin University Gallery, Perth
Griffith University, Brisbane
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria
Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia
Monash University. Melbourne
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland
Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
Provincetown Museum and Art Center, Massachusetts, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton, Queensland

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Stewart MacFarlane: Second Sight

Whether it is the confrontational gaze of the model, the scene and the lone figure or a scene loaded with urban landmarks or pastoral bliss, Stewart MacFarlane’s work is distinctive and mature. A painter of 40 years in more or less the same genres, he continues to reinvent his techniques and the nuances that he has developed within it.

MacFarlane’s work is embodied, in his words as “diary entries of my experiences, current situations, physical locations and mind spaces”. His current exhibition, painted in the last fourteen months, is grounded in two locations, South Australia and New Mexico. For example, the background in Lantern is the corner of Rundle and Pulteney Streets, a well known hangout, iconic to residents of Adelaide, together with small paintings in a variety of other locations in South Australia.

The scenes from New Mexico are a direct response to the streetscape and houses of the town of Roswell of 50,000 inhabitants. Roswell, has a history for MacFarlane, who first painted there as an artist-in-residence in 1988. The inhabitants

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Stewart McFarlane's enigmatic images

By Samantha Littley

Artlines | 2-2021 | June 2021

A gift to the Collection from Alex and Kitty Mackay, Australian artist Stewart MacFarlane’s Outcast 1996 is emblematic of his series of quietly menacing paintings set in and around Brisbane. Here, curator Samantha Littley delves into the artist’s works and practice.

Through a practice spanning more than four decades, Stewart MacFarlane has gravitated towards the edges of polite society, with works revealing a fascination for aspects of life that take place behind closed doors or are otherwise obscured. Provocative and often erotically charged, his paintings seem intended to both confront the viewer and draw them in. Yet, for all his brashness and bravura, MacFarlane is well versed in art history; his diverse influences include the post-impressionist paintings of European artists working in the late nineteenth century and the streetscapes of North American realist Edward Hopper (1882–1967). These disparate impulses are at play in the recent acquisition Outcast 199