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64 pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm, perfect bound, softcover
Perimeter Editions 035
ISBN: 978-0-6482628-7-9
AU $35

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Travis MacDonald
The Cavern

The Cavern is the debut artist book by Melbourne-based painter Travis MacDonald. Drawing on key works from the last three years, the book forwards MacDonald's quietly idiosyncratic take on the more traditional genres of figuration and landscape painting, revealing a sensitivity and wit that extends to both his surroundings and that of art history.

At once dreamlike in its atmosphere and palette, and dry in its humour, The Cavern speaks not so much to a wider historical narrative, but to fragments of time within it. These works read as untethered; anomalies and oddities (some subtle, some silly) punctuate and reanimate otherwise nondescript, potentially nostalgic scenes. A stretched limousine slips its way along an arched country bridge; a round-shouldered boy sits mutely at the family piano as we await the first strike of the ivories; a girl rides sidesaddle on a white horse (she wears a full-face motorcycle helmet).

From his Cavern, MacDonald offers a contemplative and ever-so slightly incongruous vantage on the world as we thought we knew it.



64 pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm, perfect bound, softcover
Perimeter Editions 035
Edition of 300
ISBN: 978-0-6482628-7-9
Publication date: August 2018
Printed in Australia
Published by Perimeter Editions
Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Justine Ellis & Dan Rule
Art Direction: Dan Rule
Design: Tim Coghlan
Editorial Assistance: Nadiah AbdulrahimTravis MacDonald was born in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand, and currently lives and works in Melbourne. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011 and has been exhibiting since 2009. He has been awarded the Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize and the Lionel Gell Foundation Drawing Scholarship. More recently, MacDonald’s work was exhibited in Painting. More Painting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and he held his first major solo exhibition Homesick Mascot at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, in December 2016, followed by a solo exhibition as part of the Melbourne Art Fair, in August 2018. He is represented by Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.

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