
CURRICULUM VITAE
GRAHAM MCKENZIE (1943–2019)
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