James McLean

I am a Melbourne based artist who uses a mixture of inks, pens and pencils, as well as computer created imagery to express my passion for observing people and making social and political commentary. My work has been published in street magazines including Culturalista issue 4 – ‘Community’ and ‘Blanket’ issue 20 - ‘I think I can Fly’ an online magazine based in the U.K. My work has featured in open exhibitions in Fitzroy, St Kilda and Byron Bay. I participated in Trans- Siberian Arts centre's open call postcard exhibition, Which took place in a train which travels from Beijing to Moscow. During 2011 I was considered good enough to be featured in the ‘new work’ section of the www.abc.net/arts website on a number of occasion and was also the featured Artist. I received Special Recognition Awards for my artwork 'The Workers' in the "Figurative" online exhibition and 'Terror' in the "Open Art Competition" on www.lightspacetime.com. I had my Art on display at Hotel Spencer Melbourne Vic in 2011 and at La Cannella restaurant in Kensington Vic between 2013-2014. It was also during 2013 that I exhibited in 'High Views' part of the Northern Exposure’ visual Arts festival based on High street Northcote Melbourne .More recently I had Artwork published in freakartazine an online Art magazine based in the USA and also had my work displayed on the 'Australian Bushranging' Facebook and Instagram pages as part of their Fan Art February