VCA ART 2020

Lachlan McKee

Honours

I primarily work in painting, drawing and collage to explore the logic of the pictorial plane. By playing with the conventions of composition and breaking down the traditional separation between figure and ground I attempt to create fluid image-worlds. This language is composed of synthetic colours, meandering contours and abstract shapes that interact dynamically and dance on the precipice of becoming resolved figures. Depth is developed in a manner similar to the transparent layering of animation cells, rising and then receding, creating a complex visual web that plays with the eye.

Lachlan McKee, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Lachlan McKee, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Lachlan McKee, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Lachlan McKee, installation view, 2020. Documentation by Christo Crocker, Eliza Dyball and Aaron Rees.
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, *Untitled*, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020
Lachlan McKee, Untitled, acrylic, ink, and pencil on paper, 2020

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