TRAVIS MACDONALD
- » 16/09/2025: A review of Travis MacDonald's first solo exhibition with Contemporary Fine Arts in their gallery in Basel, Switzerland, has been published on Ocula. "A glow emanates from the paintings of Travis MacDonald. They catch the light and seem to send it out to the viewer. This luminescence resembles that of church windows or paintings behind glass—a special glow that captivates and draws the eye into the work."
- » 18/10/2024: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Travis MacDonald and to welcome him warmly to the gallery. MacDonald is a figurative painter of sometimes intimate social spaces and urban arcadias. Atmospheric veils of colour envelop incidental pictorial moments. Monuments are liquid, edges are soft, time passes and space recedes. Light, perspective and transparent materials operate together in the expansion of conventional two-dimensional supports to include the spatial depth between a painting’s surface and the wall upon which it hangs. MacDonald’s paintings carry influences: contemporary activations of Clarice Beckett’s tonal reckonings of landscape, utopian spaces of the Nabis unified by soundtracks of colour. Travis MacDonald (b. 1990 NZ, l. Victoria AU) was awarded the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize by judges Josè Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith. MacDonald has had a significant international trajectory. In recent years, he has exhibited in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom as well as on significant contemporary art platforms online. Travis is exhibiting in a group show at The Commercial opening 23.11.24.
- » 09/08/2024: Congratulations to Travis MacDonald announced today as winner of the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for his painting, The top of the pond. The $ 30,000 acquisitive award was judged by José Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith and will be on exhibition at Geelong Gallery until 03.11.24.