Shaun Thomas McGill is a queer artist born in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and now based in Dharug and Gundungurra Land. McGill is a graduate of Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa and Elam School of Fine Arts Te Waka Tūhura (Bachelor of Fine Arts 2021).

Shaun operates through contemporary painting, portraiture, drawing, still life and installation. His work deals with the ethical representation of identity, collective memory, the archival, urbanisation, the non-human/void and the expanded figurative.

“Shaun McGill formalises and ritualises a visual language, abstracting and releasing empirical details to participate in a broader aesthetic discourse. Underlying this clean aesthetic the urgency of touch remains, holding us close, kissing our attention. What we see are two paintings pale, rendered in clinical blues and greens. It is what the paint doesn’t name that speaks to us….”

-Steve Lovett, Durham Street West [Men’s Convenience] 2021.