Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, Laith McGregor’s multidisciplinary practice reflects an ongoing inquiry into contemporary portraiture, semiotics of image making and notions of the self. With pieces incorporating laborious, hyper-realistic illustration, accumulations of pencil and eraser shavings, and other processes that form a meditative daily ritual, his practice is resolutely underpinned by a commitment to physical studio work and the marking of time. McGregor’s works wrestle with the grey area that exists between fiction and non-fiction, negative and positive, black and white, two- and three- dimensions, serving an ongoing inquiry into the complexities of what it means to be human.
McGregor has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, including Free/State, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2022). McGregor has been the recipient of many acclaimed art prizes, including Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2018); the National Works on Paper Prize (2012); the Emerging New Work Grant by The Australia Council for the Arts (2009); the Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award (2009); and the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize (2008). He has participated in numerous residencies including Helsinki International Artist Programme residency and Barcelona Studio residency through the Australian Council for the Arts; and Art Omi, New York. McGregor is represented in significant public and private collections, including Artbank, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museum of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
step or stone, breath or bone
2024
installation view
Astrid Muller
Untitled (Prop 1)
2024
chair, enamel, walking cane, cue balls
Document Photography
Untitled Support (2)
2024
charcoal, pins & walking cane in custom frame
76.0 x 56.0 cm
Document Photography
step or stone, breath or bone
2024
installation view
Astrid Muller
Nigh Night
2013
pencil on paper
230.0 x 300.0 cm (overall)
Vessel (Piccolo)
2022
glazed ceramic and cue balls
18.5 x 14.5 cm
Tall Tale
Installation view
Sunset
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 2022: FREE STATE, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
2022
installation view
Saul Steed
Untitled (Checkmate)
Laith install
Stalemate
7 Months
Long Song
Light Nights
The Night
After Fairweather, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, QLD
installation view
S-O-M-E-ON-E (installation view)
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