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Sydney Morning Herald – Visual art by John McDonald – Saturday, 17 August 2019
Saturday, 17 August 2019 Sydney Morning Herald - SpectrumVisual art, John McDonald'Spontaneous Talent'Link to article: Barbara McKay's sense of place meets Hadyn Wilson's modern mimicry John McDonald's Newsletter...
NSW State Library Artist-in Residence 2019
Working towards an exhibition at the end of the year or early 2020 at the NSW State Library using the library's vast storehouse of archives and objects. Also this year in July, I have a show at the New England Regional Art Museum called 'An Historical...
A Place of Casual Inattention
Work in progress on my third light box painting. This time using a light sheet.
The Tabula Locus Non Consequensia
The drawing is a reference to the Greek philosopher Cebes (around 450 BC) writing based on the school of moral philosophy propounded by Socrates – ‘The Tabula Cebetes’ which was in turn an exhibition I had in 2006. This drawing refers to that theme and incorporates a...
Sophia’s Emergence
I’m currently working on this painting of the delightful, Sophia (aged 12). She combines features of her Japanese mother and her Caucasian father which demographers have stated will be an increasingly common progression in how Australian’s will look in...