Collection: Ian McGilvray

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9-26 April 2026 Ian McGilvray Exhibition G1&2

Exhibition opening 11 April 2026, 2-4pm

ABOUT IAN MCGILVRAY

Before turning to a career in art, Ian was an architect, serving as director at Cox Architecture from 1983 to 2010. During this period he was involved on a wide range of public buildings, educational, research , cultural and sports projects. Ian has been active in promoting the integration of public art into the built environment. In 2013 Ian graduated at COFA in the Master of Art programme, with a painting major. He has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, Canada, and the USA – with particular focus on the Provencale landscape locales of Paul Cezanne.

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Ian’s artistic practice is centred on the human figure, exploring the intersection of the commonplace with the profound in everyday life. He employs devices of juxtaposition, memory, homage and ambiguity to engage the viewer in a dialogue about dignity within our human condition. Ian seeks to give a contemporary voice in the lyrical figurative tradition to explore longings within us that  point to a higher view of our humanity. He has written and spoken on the role of Christian faith in visual art. Drawing forms the basis of Ian’s artistic practice. In 2012 Ian was awarded the Hornsby Shire Emerging Artist Award. 

EXHIBITIONS

• Feast, Pray, Love: Food and Spirituality exhibition, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne 2013. Finalist.
• 2013 Jenny Birt Award finalist, COFA, Sydney
• Introducing Ian McGilvray exhibition, November 2013 at Wallarobba Art & Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW.
• Pas de Deux exhibition, April 2016 at Gallery Lane Cove, NSW.
• Kedumba Drawing Prize 2017 entrant.
• Domestic Violence exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2018.
• Drawn Together exhibition, GalleryOne88, Katoomba, 2021.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

• ‘Art at the Areopagus’ in Zadok Perspectives No. 118, Autumn 2013
• ‘Domestic Violence against Women: an artist’s response’ in Zadok Perspectives No. 138, Autumn 2018
• ‘Stirred by a Noble Theme: Visual Imagery in the Psalms’, Moore College School of Theology, 2012.
• ‘Outreach and the Artist’ contributing interview.
• Con Campbell, Zondervan, Grand Rapids 2013