Interior Life | 2007

Published 2007 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Signed copy
24 pages
210 x 150mm, softcover, with black and white illustration.
With essays by Frances Loeffler and David Cauchi.
Design by Andrew McLeod
ISBN 1-877309-14-1

This catalogue was published in association with the exhibition, Interior Life, October-December 2007. 

'Andrew McLeod is no Architect, but his drawings suggest an affinity with this conception of architectural drawing. They represent not so much an impossible view as a mind's-eye vision; they are scenes that open inwards, to a human interior life. Here, logic and order are suspended. Brooms and other domestic objects collect in the roots and branches of trees, as if in the aftermath of some fantastical storm. A neatly stacked fire bursts into flower on a bedroom floor. Monkeys and squirrels clamber around a domestic interior... These are cultural fragments selected from various times and places. They constitute a mélange of styles, a fanciful jumble of variety and ornament that is reminiscent of postmodern architecture's rediscovery of history. Indeed McLeod's drawings seem to link the architectural fantasies of Europe's earliest modernists with more recent postmodern whimsical replaying of past styles. Like Piranesi, McLeod is dealing with what is already past, a historical moment that has now become something to be picked over and imaginatively reconstructed.' 

— Interior Deliria by Frances Loeffler