GRAHAM McKENZIE CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic details
1971 - Admitted to Worshipful Company of Gold and Silversmiths, London, UK.
1967-8 - RMIT Painting
1962-64 - Prahran College of Art & Melbourne State College (now Melb.University)
Trained Secondary Teachers Certif. – Art (TSTC)
PROFESSIONAL PRAcTICE
AUSTRALIA
2007 - Art Residency at Boolcoomatta SA –Bush Heritage Australia - Undertaking a four-week residency.
1989 - Regularly travelling throughout Outback Australia and North Queensland, initially with an ABC Radio team, to produce radio programs focussing on Aboriginal communities and now privately, to remote communities to paint and study.
OVERSEAS
2015 - Travelled to the London, Paris and Venice to explore and develop a body of work that reference the vistas and waterways in each city.
2003 - Travelled to Florence, Venice and Rome to study/paint
1995 - Travelled to US. England, Switzerland, France and Italy for fourteen weeks to study and paint
1991-92 - Travelled to US. Switzerland, Italy, France, Sweden and England to study and paint
1986 - Travelled to and painted in the United States
1971 - Travelled to Holland, France, Spain & Morocco painting
1970-71 - Whitechapel Art Gallery - Exhibitions Officer designing exhibitions.
1969 - Travelled extensively along the east coast of the United States
CURRENT / FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
2018 - Developing a series of work from Victorian Southern Coastline
2017 - Currently paint a series of landscapes near KIAH NSW.
2016 - Exhibited paintings, Studies and Prints from trip to Europe in 2015
Currently teaching Painting class for the Victorian Artists Society
2015 - Preparing an exhibition of work from London, Paris and Venice.
2014 - Travelling to Tasmania developing a series of works exploring relationships within landscapes.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 - Tacit Gallery Collingwood Rocks and River (Sept – Nov)
2016 - Tacit Gallery Abbotsford Views Vues Vedute (April)
2015 - Tacit Gallery Abbotsford Alpine Surrounds (March)
2014 - Tacit Gallery Abbotsford Tasmania (November)
2014 - Tacit Gallery Abbotsford Memoria Regionis Memories of Country – (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 Vic – the Boolcoomatta series - The paintings from the Boolcoomatta residency in 2007
2005 - Span Galleries, Melbourne Vic – Between the Lakes -Lakes in the landscape from Camperdown, Victoria to Lake McKay in outback Western Australia
2004 - Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood Vic – Lancefield -Recent oil paintings and works on paper from Lancefield
2003 - Collingwood Gallery, Collingwood, Vic – Desert Images, Acrylics on paper and Oil on canvas.
2002 - Manyung Galleries, Mt.Elza Vic
2001 - Span Galleries, Melbourne Vic – Transposed Relationships – Recent Oil paintings and works on paper from Lake Eyre, the Sandy Desert and the Bungle Bungles
1993 - Distelfink Gallery, Hawthorn Vic – Oil paintings inspired by a painting trip to France and Italy in 1991 - 92
1992 - Terra Australis Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic – Retaining the Landscape – Outback themes that explored the need to mark out boundaries
1992 - Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, - Oil paintings from the Northern Territory
- Distelfink Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria
- Terra Australis Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
1988 - Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT I In conjunction with a ballet, Graham created, as part of the Bicentennial Celebrations
- Reconnaissance Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria
- Distelfink Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria
- Distelfink Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria
- Van Jager Gallery, Kew, Victoria
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SElected)
2009 - The Chapman/Bailey 30 x 30 Painting Prize Collingwood Vic - 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 SA– A finalist in this inaugural landscape exhibition.
1989 - Solander Gallery, Canberra ACT
1987 - The Mornington Peninsular Drawing Prize, Mornington Vic
1984 - The Alice Prize, A finalist Alice Springs NT
1971 - The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London England
THEATRE SET AND COSTUME DESIGNS
1990 - Interchange New Dance, Melbourne “CROSS COUNTRY FLYING”
1988 - Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra “RAISING DUST” (Scenario – Concepts and Designs)
1986 - Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra “EBONY”
1983 - Children’s Dance Theatre, Melbourne “LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE “
1982 - Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra “LES NOCE” and ‘ORESTIA”
1980 - Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra “THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY”
1979 - Australian Contemporary Dance Company, Melbourne “WATER, FOOTSTEPS & TIME” (in conjunction with Fred Williams)
1977 - Australian Ballet Company, Sydney Opera House “MONKEY IN A CAGE”
1976 - Australian Broadcasting Commission – Television “MUSICMAKERS”
1976 - Australian Ballet School, Melbourne “ECLIPSE”
COMMISSIONS
2000 - Methodist Ladies’ College - Sculpture for the school’s collection
1996 - Methodist Ladies’ College - Council Gift to the Principal
1995 - CD cover art and design for - Wunjo’s Blessing, Catalogue No. NEW 10192
1985-96 - Illustrations for - Australian Short Stories, Pascoe Publishing
1984 - Cover illustration and design for - The Amateur Soldier by J. Bellair Sectrum Publishing
1984 - Cover illustration and design for - The Loser by Frank Hardy, Pascoe Publishing
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” Edit. by Max Germaine, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, Queensland.