The works of New Zealand-based artist Kirsty McLean demand a double-take, and their illusory qualities
have increasingly been drawing attention to the artist’s preeminent skill with a brush.
By using Escher-like tessellation combined with an intimate understanding of analytical cubism, the artist’s sculptural forms that seem to hover above their pictural plane breach the boundary between 2D and 3D, recalling Modernist preoccupations with dynamism and movement through time.
Read more in Art Edit 27 May 2024
Kirsty McLean, The Swimmer, 2023. Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
