Drawings (limited edition)

Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2018. Quarto, lettered wrappers, 17 folded sheets, printed recto and verso (so that by slicing the pages images will be revealed), designed by Studio Hi Ho. Limited to 70 copies signed and numbered by the artist (a further 10 artist’s proofs also issued).

‘Euan Heng was born in Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland in 1945 and has lived in Australia since 1977. Between 1960 and 1970 the artist was employed in various occupations, including four years as a merchant seaman travelling worldwide. He completed undergraduate and post graduate studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1975 and was awarded a research MA from RMIT University in 1995. Heng has exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad and his work is represented in major public and university museum collections in all states of Australia and in Scotland. He recently retired from his role as Associate Professor in Graduate Research at Monash University, Melbourne. He held many prestigious and senior appointments during his academic career. Heng has participated in visiting artist/lectureships and residencies in Australia and overseas, including the Australia Council Residency at the British School at Rome in 1999, a Royal Scottish Academy Residency in Scotland in 2010 and most recently at Deakin University to participate in the 2018 Drawing Room Project. In 2004 he received the Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools Distinguished Research Award and is the current recipient of the 2018 APW George Collie Memorial Award.’ – artist’s website.

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