Texts
Artist's Statement (Valencia Architecture Conference) - There is perhaps something utopian in my work, but I seek to excavate our recent history to find a way forward, rather than imposing the fetish of the new.
Artist's Statement (May 2010) - [A] century and a half ago, photography liberated painting from the task of representation; today, satellite imagery redefines how we perceive our landscape and environment...
John K. Grande - As a painter, he challenges the codes of contemporary abstraction, leaving touches of figuration. These works reference visual experience and the realities of a mediatized society.
Gary Michael Dault - He clearly finds delight in the rapturous, convulsive nature of untrammeled paint-handling, losing himself in its irrational joys...
Martin Mills (I) - McLeod is obsessed with recording, seeing this as the function of the artist. He is at pains to point out that there is no moral interpretation going on here, merely observation.
Martin Mills (II) - We see depicted the effects of time and place on our collective mental landscape, drawn down into something resembling a coherent statement, yet never quite within the grasp of language.
Martin Mills (III) - In his recent paintings, Christian McLeod is engaging directly with the historical changes taking place in his homeland, both the first epoch, wherein wilderness was turned to pasture, and the current epoch, where that which was below the ground is brought to the surface.
Craig Scott - [A]n uncanny ability to place highlights or zones or textured streaks of colour in a way that both teases the eye, moving it around the canvas, and (often) signals a more representational element in his work...