Education
He went on to earn a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales.
He went on to earn a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales.
He is known for his paintings, videos and Plexiglas panels that combine Baroque spatial concepts with seventeenth century sensibility. He uses 3D cloth simulation software to visually fold different religious and mythical genres into one image. Over the last ten years, McGrath has exhibited in New York, London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Paris.
After graduating high school, McGrath travelled to Paris to study the techniques and principles of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century masters under the guidance of artist Patrick Betaudier.
Upon returning to Australia, McGrath began work as a studio assistant to Arthur Boyd. During this period as an architect, McGrath discovered that Baroque techniques enabled him to connect architecture and art by filling the void space within the Computer-aided Design (Computer-Aided Design) modelling with narrative.
"lieutenant occurred to me too, that while you’re on a computer, you are looking through the same perspective window into a 3-Doctorate world that Renaissance perspective artists tried to do." In 2010, he was granted special access to the Strahov Baroque Monastic Library in Prague. Secretariat within this notable historic building, the monastery"s libraries hold over 125,000 volumes of philosophical and theological texts which McGrath used as inspiration for his body of work Ex Libris.
Olsen Irwin Gallery Maitland Regional Art Gallery Artereal Gallery Sculpture by the Sea Carriageworks Michael Carr Art Gallery Queensland Museum of Modern Art Queen Street Fine Art Gallery Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Nevill Keating Gallery, London MCG Galleries, New York J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Laguna Art Museum in Los Los Angeles