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Simon Mclean - artist profile |
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Written by Kalin
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
click to enlarge image | The Artist Simon Mclean lives and works from Broadbeach on the Gold Coast of Queensland about an hour South from the State capitol Brisbane. He has received numerous prizes and awards for his original Artworks and Illustration. His works are represented in private collections throughout Australia and Overseas.
For twenty years Mclean produced Illustration and Art for a myriad of Advertising and Publishing companies in Australia and internationally. Mcleans work has illustrated successful childrens book ranges and is known for massively detailed full colour cartoon poster works. His Charcoal works on paper and canvas attained recognition through sellout shows in 2002 and 2003 and continue to receive critical acclaim for originality in style and theme and have been described as anything from brilliantly dark and moody to Hilariously disturbing.
“Art & Antiques in Queensland - by David Letch
The art of Simon Mclean begins with the fantastical depths of the unconscious.
Playful and child-like, his imagery touches our personal mindscape and calls for a
response that is more to do with dreams and whimsy than intellectual analysis. Laced with humour his observations on the human condition reflect an ‘everyman’ perspective and throw wide the door giving us entry into a marvellously wry and original tongue in cheek vision.
Mclean’s world is both tragically funny and darkly beautiful. His vision is one of a universe where frailty and humour collide, where the exaggerated is normal and where the sky is perpetually aglow. Technically the work displays graphic skills that have become finely tuned revealing a deftness of line and form. So strong is his imagery, that these works, executed in charcoal, become so beautifully luminous that they embed themselves in the viewers mind in nothing less than technicolour.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 November 2008 )
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