Stewart MacFarlane
Stewart MacFarlane
The Last Word (The Benefactor), 2001
Stewart MacFarlane (born 1953)
oil on canvas
153 x 122 cm
signed and dated lower right
Exhibited: Stewart MacFarlane, Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney University 5 July - 4 Aug 2001, cat no. 4
Stewart MacFarlane, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 14th Aug- 1st Sept 2001.
$5,000
$500 rent-to-try
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Stewart MacFarlane was born in Adelaide and completed his Diploma in Fine Art in 1974 before travelling to the US to further his studies, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977. He returned to Australia in 1983, moving to Melbourne the following year for post-graduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts. In 1987, MacFarlane lived and painted in Mornington, Victoria for several months before receiving an initial residency with the Roswell Artist-in-residence program, New Mexico, for a year. Over the next 8 years he moved between Melbourne, Sydney and Roswell, producing one or more solo exhibitions each year. Queensland became home in 1995, where he remained to work for the next seven years. MacFarlane moved to Hobart in 2002 until moving back to mainland Australia, in 2011.
He has held over 50 solo exhibitions in Australia, Asia, U.S.A. and Germany. A monograph of his work, titled ‘Stewart MacFarlane: Riddles of life’ was published in 1996, followed by a second monograph published in 2012, titled ‘Stewart MacFarlane: Paintings’.
MacFarlane’s work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the QLD Art Gallery, Artbank, Art Gallery of WA, Brisbane City Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and many regional institutions.