Angus McDonald

Angus McDonald (born 1961) is an Australian contemporary visual artist, refugee advocate, columnist, and documentary filmmaker. Early life and education Angus McDonald was born in Sydney in 1961. He earned an Economics degree at the University of Sydney, and later (1993–5) studied painting at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. He travelled to the small island of Leros, Greece and lived and painted there from 1996 to 1999. In 2000, he was accepted as a student at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in Italy. Upon his return to Australia in 2001, he settled in the Lennox Head region in New South Wales. In 2003, he settled in Lennox Head itself. Art McDonald was a visual artist, mainly a painter (although he didn't use a paintbrush until he was 31), for around 25 years before he started making films, from around 2017.