CURRICULUM VITAE

GRAHAM MCKENZIE (1943–2019)

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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

1971 – Admitted to Worshipful Company of Gold and Silversmiths, London, UK

1967–1968 – RMIT Painting

1962–64 – Prahran College of Art & Melbourne State College (now Melbourne University)

Secondary Teachers Certificate – Art (TSTC)

EMPLOYMENT

2015–2019  Victorian Artists Society

1965–2007 – Taught in numerous Schools and institutions

1979–1987 NGV Gallery Society, taught/ organised weekly art classes and summer schools

1977–1981 – Worked for Art Stretchers Co. as Schools Representative and Technical Advisor


SOLO  EXHIBITIONS

2019 – Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria – Night Series (cancelled due to health)

2018 – Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria – Coastlines (July)

2017 – Tacit Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria – Rocks and River (September–November)

2016 Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria – Views Vues  Vedute (April)

2015 – Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria – Alpine Surrounds (March)   

2014 – Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria – Tasmania: Land and Water (November)

2014 – Tacit Gallery, Abbotsford, Victoria – Memoria Regionis (April)

2010  Treehouse Gallery, Birregurra, Victoria – Paintings from Birregurra and the Stony Rises

2008  Heathcote Winery Gallery, Heathcote, Victoria – A selection of  work  between 1984–2004 from the Lancefield region

2007  Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria – The Boolcoomatta Series (paintings from the Boolcoomatta residency, 2007)

2005  Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria – Between the Lakes (Lakes in the landscape from Camperdown in Victoria to Lake McKay in outback Western Australia)

2004 – Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria – Lancefield (Oil paintings and works on paper from Lancefield)

2003  Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood, Victoria – Desert Images (Acrylic on paper and oil on canvas)

2002  Manyung Galleries, Mount Eliza, Victoria

2001  Span Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria – Transposed Relationships (Oil paintings and works on paper from Lake Eyre, the Sandy Desert and the Bungle Bungles)

1993  Distelfink Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria – Oil paintings inspired by a painting trip to France and Italy in 1991–1992

1992 – Terra Australis Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria – Retaining the Landscape (Outback themes exploring the need to mark out boundaries) 

1992 – Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, Northern Territory – Oil paintings from the Northern Territory

1990 – Terra Australis Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

1988 – Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – in conjunction with a ballet as part of the Bicentennial Celebrations  

1986 – Reconnaissance Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria

1978 – Van Jager Gallery, Kew, Victoria


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SElected)

2009 – The Chapman/Bailey 30 x 30 Painting Prize, Collingwood, Victoria – The inaugural small painting prize

2004 – Paintings from Italy – A joint exhibition with two other artists who travelled together to Italy (Oil painting and prints)

1998 – The Fleurieu Biennale, McLaren Vale, South Australia – A finalist in the inaugural landscape exhibition

1989 – Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territoriy

1987 – The Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize, Mornington, Victoria

1984 – The Alice Prize – A finalist, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

1971 – The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England


THEATRE SET AND COSTUME DESIGNS

1990  Interchange New Dance, Melbourne, Victoria – Cross Country Flying

1988  Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Raising Dust (Scenario Concepts and Designs)

1986 – Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – Ebony

1983  Children’s Dance Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria – La Boutique Fantasque

1982  Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory –  Les Noce and Orestia

1980  Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – The Year of the Monkey

1979  Australian Contemporary Dance Company, Melbourne, Victoria – Water, Footsteps & Time (in conjunction with Fred Williams)

1977  Australian Ballet Company, Sydney Opera House, New South Wales – Monkey in a Cage

1976 – Australian Broadcasting Commission, Television – Musicmakers

1976  Australian Ballet School,  Melbourne, Victoria – Eclipse


PUBLICATIONS

1985 Paint: Tools and Techniques. Pitmans Publishing


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011  Luminous, Celebrating 50 Years of The Australian Ballet

2006 – McCulloch Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs

1994 – Encyclopaedia of Australian Art by Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch

1979/1984/1990 – Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Edited by Max Germaine, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, Queensland