Christian McLeod

To create something beautiful or powerful or important out of nothing… that inspires me.

- 1968 Magazine (interview)

There is a tension in the work. I like to make it an effort to figure out the story. But it takes a lot of patience, a long time to capture that sense of a frozen moment, so I expect my audience to take the time too, to look closely.

- Reactor (interview) (featured in dotdotdot magazine)

There is perhaps something utopian in my work, but I seek to excavate our recent history to find a way forward, rather than imposing the fetish of the new.

- Artist's Statement (Valencia Architecture Conference)

The roots of McLeod’s impulse to paint digs deep into the soil of the primitive.

- Steve Rockwell

Colour itself comes to the fore, along with something I refer to as, for want of better term, “nature,” both unimpeded by a quest for meaning or prophecies of impending catastrophe.

- Martin Mills

McLeod brings a new energy to abstraction, drawing on and mixing a range of sources like the internet, raw environmental and experiential phenomena, digital screen imaging and video for his art.

- John K. Grande

[A]n uncanny ability to place highlights or zones or textured streaks of colour in a way that both teases the eye, moving it around the canvas, and (often) signals a more representational element in his work…

- Craig Scott

He clearly finds delight in the rapturous, convulsive nature of untrammeled paint-handling, losing himself in its irrational joys…

- Gary Michael Dault