B. 1990 in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand. Currently lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
2011 Second and third year studies BFA – Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts
2009 First year studies BFA – Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Rain sounds, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Clock Face, C3, Melbourne
2018 The Cavern (Melbourne Art Fair), Niagara Galleries, ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Homesick Mascot, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2015 Good Peacetime Liver, Neospace, Melbourne
2014 Big Sky II, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2013 Big Sky, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Comfort the Afflicted, Envy, Wellington
Das Boot, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Tingling Honey Bee, Melbourne
2021
Postcards, Gallerie Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Full House, Auckland, New Zealand
Spring 1883, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2020
What’s Outside the Window? (online), Reading Room, Melbourne
The Chair (online), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Indoor Yachting (online), VCA Art Space
Freedom is the gentle exploration of boundaries… I wear jeans, t-shirt, fragrance… curated by Spencer Lai, Discordia, Melbourne
Rain Sounds, Niagara galleries, Melbourne
2019
Melbourne Comes to Sydney, Home@735, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018
The Mechanic Part 2, Neon Parc, Melbourne
The horse, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2017
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
Precious Memories, Auto LP, Melbourne
Specimen, Artist Film Workshop, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Double A-side, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Sports, The Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria
Rudi Williams and Travis MacDonald, Punk Café, Melbourne
2016
Painting. More Painting., ACCA, Melbourne
Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria
To wound the autumnal city, Punk Café, Melbourne
2015
Return, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014
Faux Museum, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Das Boot art fair, North Melbourne Meat Market, Melbourne
2012
VCA Selected Graduate Exhibition, Boom Gallery, Geelong
2011
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Proud Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Proud Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Selected Awards and Prizes
2022 Darebin Art Prize (finalist), Melbourne
2020 Bayside Painting Prize (finalist), Melbourne
2016 Len Fox Painting Award (finalist), Castlemaine Art Museum
2015 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize (nominee)
2011 Wallara Travelling Scholarship (finalist), University of Melbourne
2010 Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Lionel Gell Foundation Drawing Scholarship, University of Melbourne
Bibliography
Giles Fielke, ‘Views to Remember and Clock Face’, Memo Review, 23 Nov 2019.
Paris Lettau, ‘What Next?: Our writers introduce four artists showing at Melbourne Art Fair 2018 that you should put on your radar’, Art Collector, 2018, pp. 30‑31.
Travis MacDonald, ‘The Cavern’, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2018.
Elle Murrell, ‘The Must-See Exhibitions At Melbourne Art Fair 2018’, The Design Files (online).
Harry Roberts, ‘Homecoming Scene’, Belle Magazine, December‑January 2016-2017, p. 45.
Eliza Devlin, ‘Travis Macdonald’, Painting. More Painting exhibition catalogue, ACCA, 2016.
Andrew Stephens, ‘Fresh paint: A brush with modernity’, The Age, 3 August 2016, p. 34.
Toby Fehily, ‘Painting. More Painting: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’, Art Guide, July‑August 2016, pp. 56-7.
Giles Fielke ‘Good peacetime liver’ exhibition text, Neospace, 2015.
2011 Second and third year studies BFA – Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts
2009 First year studies BFA – Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Rain sounds, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Clock Face, C3, Melbourne
2018 The Cavern (Melbourne Art Fair), Niagara Galleries, ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Homesick Mascot, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2015 Good Peacetime Liver, Neospace, Melbourne
2014 Big Sky II, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2013 Big Sky, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Comfort the Afflicted, Envy, Wellington
Das Boot, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Tingling Honey Bee, Melbourne
2021
Postcards, Gallerie Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Full House, Auckland, New Zealand
Spring 1883, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2020
What’s Outside the Window? (online), Reading Room, Melbourne
The Chair (online), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Indoor Yachting (online), VCA Art Space
Freedom is the gentle exploration of boundaries… I wear jeans, t-shirt, fragrance… curated by Spencer Lai, Discordia, Melbourne
Rain Sounds, Niagara galleries, Melbourne
2019
Melbourne Comes to Sydney, Home@735, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018
The Mechanic Part 2, Neon Parc, Melbourne
The horse, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2017
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Niagara Galleries, Carriageworks, Sydney
Precious Memories, Auto LP, Melbourne
Specimen, Artist Film Workshop, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Double A-side, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Sports, The Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria
Rudi Williams and Travis MacDonald, Punk Café, Melbourne
2016
Painting. More Painting., ACCA, Melbourne
Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria
To wound the autumnal city, Punk Café, Melbourne
2015
Return, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014
Faux Museum, C3 Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Das Boot art fair, North Melbourne Meat Market, Melbourne
2012
VCA Selected Graduate Exhibition, Boom Gallery, Geelong
2011
VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Wallara Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Proud Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Proud Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Selected Awards and Prizes
2022 Darebin Art Prize (finalist), Melbourne
2020 Bayside Painting Prize (finalist), Melbourne
2016 Len Fox Painting Award (finalist), Castlemaine Art Museum
2015 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize (nominee)
2011 Wallara Travelling Scholarship (finalist), University of Melbourne
2010 Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Lionel Gell Foundation Drawing Scholarship, University of Melbourne
Bibliography
Giles Fielke, ‘Views to Remember and Clock Face’, Memo Review, 23 Nov 2019.
Paris Lettau, ‘What Next?: Our writers introduce four artists showing at Melbourne Art Fair 2018 that you should put on your radar’, Art Collector, 2018, pp. 30‑31.
Travis MacDonald, ‘The Cavern’, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2018.
Elle Murrell, ‘The Must-See Exhibitions At Melbourne Art Fair 2018’, The Design Files (online).
Harry Roberts, ‘Homecoming Scene’, Belle Magazine, December‑January 2016-2017, p. 45.
Eliza Devlin, ‘Travis Macdonald’, Painting. More Painting exhibition catalogue, ACCA, 2016.
Andrew Stephens, ‘Fresh paint: A brush with modernity’, The Age, 3 August 2016, p. 34.
Toby Fehily, ‘Painting. More Painting: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’, Art Guide, July‑August 2016, pp. 56-7.
Giles Fielke ‘Good peacetime liver’ exhibition text, Neospace, 2015.