Joseph McGlennon (UK/AU)
![Image: Joseph McGlennon, [Florilegium #1], 2014, from the series [Florilegium], Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid (Sydney).](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2015_WINNER-McGLENNON-Joseph-157x200.jpg)
Image: Joseph McGlennon, Florilegium #1, 2014, from the series Florilegium, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid (Sydney).
Image: Joseph McGlennon, Florilegium #1, 2014, from the series Florilegium, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid (Sydney).
Joseph McGlennon (1957–) was born in Scotland and arrived in Australia in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and a Diploma of Education at the University of South Australia and is now based in Singapore. McGlennon came to practice fine art photography after a career in design and marketing. He held his first solo exhibition at Michael Reid Gallery in 2011, and has since exhibited his work widely in Australia and overseas. McGlennon’s works typically show proud, exotic animals within unfamiliar and exotic landscapes. His compositions are deliberately unreal and each incorporates multiple photographs from multiple destinations around the world.
![Image: Jacky Redgate, [Light throw (mirrors) #4], 2011 from the series [Light throw (mirrors)], 2010–11, Monash
Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Redgate-Light-Throw-Mirrors4-2010_2011-1-200x160.jpg)