Unreal! Ewan McDougall paintings with Virtual Reality

Unreal! is an Aotearoa/NZ touring show of Ewan McDougall's vibrant oil paintings and an incredible virtual world created from these works by multi-media artist Dr Claire Hughes, with soundscape by musician Isaac Lundy.

The Unreal! Tour opened in Wellington in February, 2020, on the opening night of the NZ Festival. It was postponed in Christchurch due to Lockdown, then opened in The Quiet Dog Gallery, Nelson, in September. The show was hosted by Auckland's 12gallery in October, before coming to Gallery de Novo where it opens on Thursday March 18, 2021, for the duration of the Fringe.

Ewan McDougall has been painting fulltime for 32 years, has had 89 solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and has shown in NZ Public Galleries and overseas in London, Valencia, Cremona, St Ives, Sydney and NYC. He is a prize winner or finalist in major NZ Art Awards and his work is held in many Public Collections.

Claire Hughes is a digital artist with a PhD in Fine Arts, specialising in virtual reality. She has exhibited for over 20 years in a variety of media. Her most recent exhibitions have been Matter Matters, which was a digital projection on a water screen over Wellington Harbour as part of the Lux Festival which was viewed by an estimated 150,000 people, and Entangled, a solo exhibition at Toi Pōneke Art Gallery.

Don the VR headset and immerse yourself in the wild world of this unique morphing of 'psychedelic cave art' with brilliant trail-blazing digital technology.