Mitchell McAuley is an artist who is strongly influenced by the landscape of his native Australia. For the past twenty years he has travelled extensively around Australia using the landscape as the starting point for his large, heavily textured canvases. His passion for the Australian landscape culminated in 1999, when he purchased a farmstead in the outback of northern Victoria and begun dividing his time between the country and Melbourne. The resulting paintings continue his passion for the Australian landscape, incorporating the dazzling blend of colours and textures that McAuley’s work is celebrated for.
Mitchell McAuley was born in Melbourne in 1962. He studied painting and printmaking at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Painting in 1984. Mitchell McAuley has had numerous exhibitions throughout Australia, the United States and Hong Kong including solo shows at Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne and Queen Street Fine Art Gallery, Sydney with further exhibitions scheduled in Sydney and San Francisco later this year. Mitchell McAuley’s work can be found in private and corporate collections in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
EDUCATION
1982-84 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1981 Prahran College, T.O.P, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Axia Gallery, Sydney
2002 “Bush Lines”, Galerie Martini, Hong Kong SAR, China
“South”, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2000 “Crossings”, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
“Travels”, Galerie Martini, Hong Kong SAR, China
1999 “Teneriffe Series”, George Gallery, Melbourne
“Teneriffe Series”, Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney
“Teneriffe & Recent Works”, Herring Island Gallery
1998 “West”, Motor Works, Melbourne
“West”, Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney
“West”, Galerie Martini, Hong Kong SAR, China
1997 “Billabong”, Motor Works, Melbourne;
“Art and the Environment”, Motor Works, Melbourne
1986 “Communication”, Rhumbarellas, Melbourne
1985 “Firstly let me say”, Rhumbarellas, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Australia-Art & About, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
2002 “The View from Here”, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
“SUB 500”, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney
2001 “Stumped”, Herring Island Gallery, Herring Island
2000 “The Art of Saving Lives”, Sotheby’s, Melbourne
Group Show, Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney
1998 “Water”, Herring Island Gallery, Melbourne
“9 x 5 by Twenty-Five”, George Adams Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Group Show, Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney
1995 Group Show, Motor Works, Melbourne
1986 Group Show, Rhumbarellas, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Corporate Société Générale,
AON Worldwide Insurance,
Dresdner Bank,
Suncorp,
MM Communications,
Nelson Wheeler,
parks Victoria
Private USA, Singapore, Hong Kong,
UK, Switzerland
