Glen Mackie


© 2012

 
 Born: 1975 Thursday Island QLD
Language: Iama Tribe
Region: Yam Island QLD

br> Glen has a distinguishable bold style featuring wonderfully threadlike lines. He explains that he has been elected as Yam Island’s ‘official’ storyteller. Glen’s mission is to keep alive the sacred stories of the four brothers who travelled from the north before memory and settled at Zenadh Kes, or what most Australians know as the Central and Eastern Torres Strait Islands. In Glen’s works, art and law are combined heroically – the figures are woven into rhythmic patterns of design. Paintings, prints and sculpted objects by Glen are held in many private and public collections nationally.
 

 

EXHIBITIONS-SOLO

  
2011
NGAI IAMALAIG (Me a Yam Islander) new lino prints FireWorks gallery Brisbane
 
2011
I am Kulkalgal UMI Cairns
  
2010
Lino prints from the Torres Strait FireWorks gallery Brisbane

 

EXHIBITIONS-GROUP
2011 Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands QAG, GOMA
2010
CIAF (Cairns Indigenous Art Fair) Exhibited by Sun Dance Gallery, Port Douglas, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney and Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
2010
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney. Muiyiw Minaral (Spiritual markings) with George Nona & Billy Missi.
1999
Exhibition with Nino Sabatino at Banggu Minjaany Art Gallery, TNQ TAFE, Cairns, curated by Barbara Adams.

 

AWARDS + PRIZES
1991-94
1991-94 Wangetti High School Best Achievement Student Art Award

 

EDUCATION
1995
Attended Banggu Minjaany Art & Culture Centre, Tropical North Queensland
1998-99
TAFE, ATSI Diploma of Visual Arts Course, taught by Anna Eglitis and mentored by Dennis Nona.

 

COMMISIONS
2008
TNQ TAFE mural commission, Pre-school Child Care Centre
2004
Yam Island Council mural commission, community centre - 'Kabusu'
2003
Queensland Health Commission mural for Health Clinic
 

 

PUBLICATIONS
2006 Gatherings I, 2002, Gatherings II Published by Arts Queensland Press, Brisbane

 

COLLECTIONS

Cairns Regional Gallery
Queensland Art Gallery
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
National Museum of Australia Canberra
Various private collections
 
NEWS

• http://eventsqld.com.au/events/details/2304-ngai-lamalaig-me-a-yam-islander-new-lino-prints-by-glen-mackie-kei-kalak

 
 
 
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