“.. .That Sweep of Savage Splendour… “A Century of Australians in Antarctica
From: From Subjects to Citizens
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Initially lured south perhaps as much by virtue of opportunistic geography as their undoubted ability, a number of remarkable individuals from that era would in time forge an enduring link between their new nations and the seventh continent.
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Alasdair McGregor
Alasdair McGregor has visited the Antarctic region six times since the early 1980's as an artist, writer and photographer, most notably as a member of the 1983 Heard Island Expedition and more recently with two AAP Mawson's Huts Foundation work parties at Cape Denison. He has designed Antarctic stamps for Australia Post and is the author of Mawson's Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal (1988). In 2000 McGregor curated the exhibition '...that sweep of savage splendour': A Century of Australians in Antarctica for the Australian High Commission to Canada. A graduate in architecture, McGregor's interests also centre around natural history. He is the co-author of two books in this field: The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone (1997) and Australia's Wild Islands (1999). Alasdair McGregor has participated in twenty group exhibitions and has held fourteen solo exhibitions over the past twenty-five years. He has completed corporate and public commissions both in Australia and Asia and his paintings are represented in many public and private collections.
