Euan MacLeod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1956. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) from Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, in 1979, before moving to Sydney in 1981. He has held more than fifty solo shows in New Zealand and Australia and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
Euan's work is represented in many private and public collections, including Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, the National Gallery of Australia and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Euan has won a number of arts prizes including the Archibald in 1999, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the Blake Prize in 2006 and, most recently, the New South Wales Parliament's inaugural Plein Air painting prize.
His work will be featured in After Hours, Eight Contemporary New Zealand Painters, curated by Gregory O'Brien at City Gallery Wellington. (Photo by David Lewis)