Christine Mackey employs diverse disciplines, subject matter and tactics in devising works that can generate different kinds of knowledge of place, their hidden histories and ecological formations. Key to her practice is drawing as a speculative field of inquiry where visual communication, exchange and knowledge intersect as a platform for social research. Her practice combines site-specific and public interventions, exhibitions, performance and art-books.
In 2002, Mackey graduated with an MA Time based and Performance Studies at Dartington College of Art, England and in 1992 with a BA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland and is currently pursuing a practice based PhD at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2009
e-MobilArts The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki www.media.uoa.gr/~charitos/emobilart
e-MobilArts The Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland
Its not what I have started… Studio Golo Brdo, Croatia http://bigblog.tportal.hr/brajnovic
The garden for Ostenda RIAA – Argentina www.proyectoriaa.org
Intimate Formations Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal www.drawingspacesen.weebly.com
Bristol Artist’s Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, U.K
12th International Book Exhibition, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K
Liverpool Artists Book Fair, A Foundation’s Greenland Street Gallery, U.K
2008
RIVERwork(s) The Sligo Art Gallery, Exhibition and Publication
MEDIATIONS II BIENNALE Museum Of Modern Art, Poznan, Poland
Limerick City Gallery of Art Drawing Collection, Roscommon Arts Centre
Way Marks New Drawing Works, Drogheda Arts Centre, Curator Ruairi O’Cuiv
Reconnaissance 100 Intervention, Birr Arts Festival, Curator Eilish Lavelle
New Sites New Fields Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Curator Sean O Rielly
TRADE Residency with Alfredo Jaar. Site-specific Interventions and Exhibition, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
UNOACTU Dresden, Prager Spitze, Germany
2007
IONTAS Sligo Art Gallery, Curator Michael Dempsey
COE Claremorris Open, Mayo, Curator Ingrid Swenson
Camouflash Patio Art Center in Lodz, Poland
10 Years of Public Art The Sligo Art Gallery
2006
40 Shades of Green CHICAGO EXPO SOFA
Points of Departure The Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Tidings – from here to there The Lab Galley, Dublin
Doubting Straits Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2005
Provisional Teor/e Tica, Costa Rica, Central America
40 Shades of Green Dixon Galley, Memphis, U.S.A
40 Shades of Green Gallerija Arka, Lithuania
This Place Site-ations International, Sense in Place, Irish representative in Wales
Public Sites and Bay Art Gallery
40 Shades of Green Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2004
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Process Room, Dublin, Ireland
Exploring Drawing Skibberean Arts Center, Cork
Longitude/Latitude Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
Trunk Show Artist as Traveller, King House, Roscommon
Trunk Show Sirius Art Gallery, West Cork
Imagine ev+a Limerick City Gallery of Art, Curator Zdenka Badinovae
2003
Fragments The Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo
OPEN ev+a, Limerick
Artist in Residence
2009
RIAA - Argentina.
www.proyectoriaa.org
Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal.
http://drawingspacesen.weebly.com
2008-9
e-MobilArt: European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists, (Greece, Finland, Vienna, Poland).
www.media.uoa.gr/emobilart
The Nature of Sligo, Kids Own Publishing Partnership, Sligo.
www.practice.ie
2007
Exercises In Folkatronic, Visual Artists Media Residencies, Dublin.
www.visualartists.ie
Visual Dialogues, North Tipperary Arts County Office,
www.tipperarynorth.ie
TRADE with artist Alfredo Jaar, Leitrim/Roscommon Co.Co.
www.AFTER.ie
Sanskriti Art Foundation, New Delphi, India.
www.sanskritifoundation.org
2005
Firestation Artists Studios –Arts Residency Award.
www.firestation.ie
Site-ations International, Wales.
www.site-ations.org/sense in place
Fundación Ars Teor Etica, Costa Rica, Central America.
www.teoretica.org
2004
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
www.imma.ie
2003
The Belltable Arts Centre, Young EV+A, Limerick.
www.eva.ie
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Leitrim County Council Award.
www.media.uoa.gr
Awards and Commissions
2009
International Trade Bursary, Leitrim County Council
Culture Ireland, International Travel Bursary
Travel and Training Award, The Arts Council, Ireland
2008
Culture Ireland, International Travel Bursary.
Visual Arts Bursary Award, The Arts Council, Dublin.
Travel Award, University of Ulster, Belfast.
One-off Project Award (AFTER), The Arts Council, Dublin.
Research Bursary Award, Leitrim County Council.
2007
Visual Artist Bursary, The Arts Council, Ireland.
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarship, University of Ulster, Belfast.
TRADE Residency with Alfredo Jaar – Leitrim County Council.
2006-8
Sligo County Council, Exhibition and Publication.
2006
Publication Award, Arts Council, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland.
IMMA Education and Community Catalogue.
Public Arts Researcher, Sculpture in Woodland, Wicklow.
Dublin City Council, Publication and Exhibition, The Lab Gallery, Dublin.
2005
Commission Award, Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland.
2004
Travel Award, Cultural Ireland.
A.I.B (short-listed) emerging artist award, Dublin, Ireland.
2003
Main Award, ev+a Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
2002
Racecourse View Estate, Sligo.
2001
Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship
Lough MacNean Sculpture Trail, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
2000
The Women's Centre, (Permanent Installation), Derry, Northern Ireland.
Selected Appointments
2009-10
Visiting lecturer at the Univeristy of Ulster, Belfast (MA Public Art practice)
2009
ISEA (selection committee-voluntary), University of Ulster, Belfast.
2008
D.I.T Art College, Visiting Lecturer.
2006-7
Research Artist for ‘New Sites – New Field’ Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2005-6
Researcher for SITE-ATIONS International Conference ‘Sense in place’.
W.I.T Art College, Visiting Lecturer.
2004-6
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Drawing Workshops)
2002-5
Pilot Arts Program in Association with The Irish Museum Modern Art
Leitrim County Council. Co-curated an exhibition from the National
Collection IMMA with Staff from Leitrim County Council.
2004
Public Arts Officer, Leitrim County Council.