25 YEARS of GREAT PRESS

“But perhaps more than any other artist, Stewart MacFarlane brings a restless nerve to his works: they bristle not just with the fiercely contrasting colours of their modelling but with the unresolved cryptic quality of his narratives.”

Robert Nelson, The Age: Metro, December 3 2008

“MacFarlane is a master at constructing internal tension, which extends to include the viewer. We are caught and unsettled by our own voyeurism,”

Gina Fairley, Eyeline, Issue 62 2006

“MacFarlane shows us that figurative painting can still hold its own with other art forms and makes us feel something at an art show, two decades after an anaemic and self-defeating irony rendered this all but impossible.”

Rex Butler, The Courier Mail, June 21 2004

“His (MacFarlane’s) extraordinary new work uses the vacuous vocabulary against itself. His hyper-bland technique and greasy, high gloss colour rips into the aching absence of humanity in the yuppie universe.”

David Broomfield, The West Ausralian: On Show, June 4 1994

“Fortunately MacFarlane is his own man and proceeds without taking any notice of current fashions in painting.”

Graeme Sturgeon, Australian Collector's Quarterly, January 1989

“To my mind, MacFarlane is an artist who grows in stature with each new work he creates.”

Gary Catalano, The Age: Arts, October 1986