Carol McGregor

Carol McGregor is an Indigenous Australian artist of Wathaurung (Victoria) and Scottish descent, internationally known for her multi media installation pieces bringing together ephemeral natural fibres, metal, and paper. She is also deeply engaged in the creation of and cultural reconnection to possum skin cloaks, a traditional form of dress and important biographical cultural item.

Early life and education

Carol McGregor was born in Hastings, New Zealand. After earning a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University in 1981, McGregor studied for a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA), Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University, graduating in 2012. In 2013, McGregor earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours, from QCA. Between 2014 and 2017, she studied for a Doctor of Philosophy degree at QCA with an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship.

Career

Carol McGregor aims through her practice to explore alternative forms of cultural expression and to adjust new technologies that would help her further examine the diversity of ancestry, experiences and intimate histories concealed within the landscape.

For her doctoral project, McGregor examined the material culture of possum skin cloaks in South East Queensland (SEQ). Thanks to her research work and the workshop she facilitated, the contemporary making of possum skin cloak was revitalised in SEQ communities.

McGregor collaborated with Glennys Briggs on the ''Art of the Skins'' (cloak making project and exhibition) presented at the State Library of Queensland in June – Nov 2016.

McGregor's work in cast silver, ''Cornerstone'' (2011–18), was featured by the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, as part of the ''Boundary Lines'' group exhibition in November 2018 – February 2019.

McGregor's latest work ''Skin Country'' (2018) was featured by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, as part of ''The Commute'' exhibition in September – December 2018.

Work

Solo exhibitions

*2014 IDALIA imprints – The Webb Gallery, Qld College of Art (response to artist residency with The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences)
*2015 Idalia HAAS Library, University of Qld, Brisbane
*2018 ''Carol McGregor: Repositories of Recognition'', Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia

Major exhibitions

*2009 Postcard Art & Advertising (CAIA, QCA) Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Cairns
*2010 ''On Paper'', Impress Printmakers and Qld College of Art Print Club, Brisbane
*2010 ''Cairns Indigenous Art Fair'', Cairns
*2010 ''Our Stories'', Our Way, Mater Hospital, Brisbane
*2010 ''Art from the Soul'', Kurilpa Gallery, Brisbane
*2011 ''Knots'', Contemporary Artisans Collective Gallery, Brisbane
*2012 ''First'', Emerging Indigenous Art, Love Love Studio, Brisbane
*2013 ''Artoriginal'', Brisbane Town Hall
*2013 ''Middle Ground'', Fine Art Honours students, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane
*2013 ''Field'', Contemporary Landscapes, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane
*2014 ''The Gather Award'', St. Ita's, Brisbane
*2014 ''Intimate Spaces Revealed'', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
*2015 ''Art meets Science'', Queensland Academy of Arts and Science, Brisbane
*2015 ''My Story'', The Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast.
*2015 ''Blak, Art from the Margins'', St Andrews Hospital, Brisbane
*2015 ''Warriors, Sorcerers and Spirits'', KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns indigenous Art Fair, Cairns
*2015 ''Reconciliation Week'', Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane
*2016 ''Art of the Skins'', State Library Queensland, Brisbane
*2016 ''Gathering Strands'', Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
*2017 ''Tastes Like Sunshine'', Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
*2018, ''So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history'', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
*2018, ''Boundary Lines,'' Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
*2018 ''The Commute'', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Selected award exhibitions

*2013 The churchie national emerging art prize, Griffith University Art Gallery (GUAG), Brisbane
*2013 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, 3D – Finalist, Noosa Regional Gallery
*2013 15 Artists 2013, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Redcliffe Art Gallery
*2014 The churchie national emerging art prize, GUAG, Brisbane
* 2014 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize

Awards and nominations

*2014 Winner, The Inaugural Gather Award, Brisbane
*2015 1854 Scholar, Museum Victoria, Melbourne

Collections

* Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia
* Redland Art Gallery, Queensland

References

External links

Carol McGregor's webpage

Collection of Carol McGregor's works

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Indigenous Australian artists
Living people
1961 births
People from Hastings, New Zealand
Massey University alumni
Queensland College of Art alumni