Christina Mackie (born 1956, Oxford, UK) is a British artist who works in the fields of sculpture, video, photography and drawing.

Background

Mackie was born in

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, in 1956. She studied at the

Vancouver School of Art Emily Carr University of Art + Design (abbreviated as ECU) is a public art university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The university's campus is located within the Great Northern Way Campus in Strathcona. The university is a co-e ...

graduating in 1974 before obtaining her MA in Fine Art from

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

in London in 1978. She now lives and works in London Mackie has undertaken residencies at the CCA Kitakyushu in Japan (2000), the VASL Residency in Karachi, Pakistan (2006), the Oxford-Melbourne Fellowship, UK (2010) and the XXIV CSAV–Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Italy (2018).

Exhibitions

Mackie's work has been exhibited at

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Chisenhale Gallery Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End. Background The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, events, performances and talks. The gallery occupies the ground level of a ...

, London, the

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, London, the

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, Leeds, the

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, the

KW Institute for Contemporary Art The KW Institute for Contemporary Art (also known as Kunst-Werke) is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen ...

, Berlin and the

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. Her works are kept in the public collections of the

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collection, the Arts Council Collection, the British Council Collection, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK Contemporary Art Society, UK and the Nomas Foundation, IT.

Style

Mackie is well known for her multi-faceted sculptural installations, she is experimental with process and objects and likes to keep an element of change and risk in her work. Mackie is trained as a painter but uses a wide variation of styles and media in her work such as photography, sculpture, ceramics and found objects. Mackie has a kiln in her studio and did research into clay and glazes when in Australia. Mackie is interested in the interaction of the natural and man-made world and how she can represent this in her work. She uses sculptural techniques and a mix of modern and traditional media to explore these interactions and intersections to create a shifting perspective. Mackie varies in how she selects her materials, sometimes it is simply because they compliment each other, sometimes because they actively juxtapose each other. She sees each of the materials forming part of a larger statement.

Prizes

In 2005, Mackie was announced the winner of

Beck's Futures Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists. Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of con ...

by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. In 2010, she was awarded the

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, UK. In 2011, she was awarded the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award, UK.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mackie, Christina 1956 births Living people Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni Alumni of Central Saint Martins British sculptors