Laith mcgregor biography books

Born on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, in 1977, Laith McGregor is an Australian artist currently living and working in Byron Bay. McGregor majored in painting in 2007 at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, but it wasn’t until after he graduated that drawing took a central role in his practice. Known for producing portraits using the humble biro, large-scale durational drawings, as well as sculptural installations featuring unconventional drawing mediums and surfaces, McGregor considers drawing a very direct and fundamentally human practice. “The line as a symbolic gesture dates back to our primitive origins and filters into the fabric of our everyday lives… It’s a primal instinct, used to map, guide, express and converse.”[1]

Prior to the pandemic, McGregor spent a lot of time travelling. In particular, he visited and worked in Bali sometimes as frequently as twice a year. As a result, he began to focus on themes of travel and diarism – he would approach drawing as a daily inscription of his thoughts, ideas and new visual stimuli. He also became increasingly aesthetically engaged with exotic representations of the Asia Pacific region. He began to explore visual tropes of the jungle; his drawings incorporated imagery of Balinese artefacts, like urns, pitchers, car

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