Welcome
I am an Australian artist working across painting, drawing, animation, and machine learning. My art practice explores the tension between humanity’s instinctive connection to nature and the growing sense of detachment shaped by technological and industrial systems. I draw on a background in fine art, drama, and digital new media, and a Master of Visual Arts from QCA, Griffith University.
Repetition, remembrance, and recreation are central to my work, functioning as methods to examine authorship, memory, and image-making in an increasingly automated world.
Artist Highlights
In 2024, McCart was awarded the Brisbane Portrait Prize: Digital Award for Serial Copycat, a work that interrogates AI-generated imagery and portraiture through a hybrid process that reasserts the artist’s hand within automated systems. This accolade marked a significant milestone in his ongoing exploration of machine learning and material transformation.
Earlier recognition includes winning the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing in 2018 for Somewhere Else Unknown
exhibited at the QCA Project Gallery, Brisbane. The award acknowledged McCart’s strength in drawing as a critical and experimental medium, engaging with landscape, memory, and processes of erasure and accumulation.
Together, these achievements situate McCart’s practice within a sustained inquiry into contemporary image-making, where emerging technologies are tested, resisted, and reworked through labour-intensive, materially grounded approaches.