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 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, Art Gallery of South Australia (2022), Self, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, NSW (2022) and Out of the ordinary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017). McGregor has been the recipient of many acclaimed art prizes, including the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2024); 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 the Helsinki International Artist Programme residency and the Barcelona Studio residency through the Australia 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, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Still Life
2025
pencil on paper
154.0 × 121.0 cm (framed)
DRAWING PARALLELS: A Conversation
2025
DRAW Space, Sydney
installation view
Photo: Jessica Maurer
History I
2025
graphite, wood
33.0 × 27.0 cm
After Life
2025
clay enamel, cigarette wall sculpture
24.0 × 21.0 × 13.0 cm
Untitled (Prop 1)
2024
chair, enamel, walking cane, cue balls
Document Photography
Radix
2022
STATION Gadigal | Sydney
Installation view
Untitled (Still)
2022
archival pigment print mounted on diabond
31.5 × 23.5 cm
Ain't No Sunshine
2025
STATION Gadigal | Sydney
installation view
Photo: Document Photography
Long Song
2017
oil on canvas & wood carvings
210 × 156cm
Vessel (Living)
2022
glazed ceramic and cue balls
25.0 × 17.0 cm
Stalemate
2019
wood, fibreglass, clothes, shoes, oil paint
63 × 86 × 55 cm
Ends, End
2025
pencils, graphite, wood
Photo: Michelle Eabry
DARK WAS THE NIGHT
2013
etching
240.0 × 180.0 cm
After Fairweather
2022
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery
installation view
Photo: Louis Lim
Nigh Night
2013
pencil on paper
230.0 × 300.0 cm (overall)
A Thousand Tears
2019
oil on canvas, found objects, & custom frame
145.0 × 138.0 cm
Finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2019
Radix
2022
STATION Gadigal | Sydney
Installation view
Still Life Vessel III (Wall Flower)
2025
clay, enamel wall sculpture
24.0 × 18.0 × 17.0 cm
Untitled (Around)
2022
archival pigment print mounted on dibond
31.5 × 23.5
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 2022: FREE STATE, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
2022
Adelaide
installation view
Photo: Saul Steed
Sunset
2016
pencil on paper
203.5 × 156.5 cm
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