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Cal MacKinnon Curriculum
Vitae
Born 1968
Lives and works between Northern NSW and South East Queensland
Qualifications
Bachelor of Visual Arts: Southern Cross University
Representative Gallery
Byron Fine Art Gallery, Director: Liz Buchmann
Exhibitions:
Solo
2008
language
of the unspoken,
Barratt
Galleries Altonville
2007
The
Circus Diaries,
Victorian Arts Centre, (by invitation)
2006 Beyond
The Pink Poodle,
Cultural Heritage Expo, Robina Community
Expo hall
Gold Coast (by invitation)
2005 Beyond
The Pink Poodle,
Lismore
Regional Gallery (by invitation)
2005 Finger
Foods, Brisbane
PowerhouseMuseum,
Gay
Pride Festival (by
invitation)
2004 Moments
of Virtue, Gold
Coast City Art Gallery
2002 Femail,
about love and correspondence,
Adelaide
Feast festival (By
invitation).
2003 Lismore
Art Fair/Winsome Hotel.
Conversations
with a Transvestite Movie Star
2D
hanging type c prints and sitespecific installation of hotel
room.
2004 Letter
to my absent lover, Winsome Hotel.
Data projection of sequenced digital images and sound installation.
2002 The
Main Drag, Stills Gallery Sydney,
as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Program. (by invitation)
2000 A
Body of Water, Waywood
Gallery Byron Bay
2001 Oceans
of Earth, Byron
Bay Writers Festival site as part ofWaywood
Gallery
Selected Group Shows:
2006 Crysallis, Lismore
Regional Gallery, (by invitation)
2006 C.A.S.E., Professional
mixed exhibition, (by invitation)
2004 Surface,
Queensland Centre
for Photography,
Touring Group show (by invitation)
2004 With
all things left unsaid Grafton Regional Art Gallery
Collaboration with abstract painter Susan Joyce
2003/04 Lismore
Regional Art Gallery,
Paddocks Full Of Cows And Chairs (by invitation).
2000 Luggage
Not Baggage, PCL exhibitionists Sydney (by
invitation)
Other group shows include:
The
Border Art Prize, Ulrick
Schubert Photography Prize, Josephine
Ulrick National Portrait prize, Olive
Cotton Portrait Prize, Creative
Photography Centre Byron Bay, Out Art Sydney, The Nude Salon Sydney,
Permanent collections:
Melbourne Performing Arts Museum Archive
Lismore Regional Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Private Collections
Residencies:
2006 Artist
in Residence ETHOS
Foundation, Waging Peace, Art and Science
2005 Artist
in residence Gondwana
Centre Courageous
Conversations
2004 Artist
in residence Gondwana
Centre Nature of Music Program
Awards:
First Place( joint winner) Lismore
City Art Prize 2000
First Place and peoples choice Art in Jan 2002
Highly Commended Muswellbrook
National photography 2001
First Place St John Art prize 2000
First place Easter
Arts Classic 2000
Articles/Reviews:
The Courier Mail BAM, May 2005
Sydney Morning Herald, Metro Magazine
writer
Jenny Tabakoff, Feb 8-14 2002
SX News, Issue 54, writer Colin Bisset, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald, Review by Robert McFarlane, Feb
13 2002
The Northern Star Newspaper, Jan 13, 2001
The Northern Star Newspaper, Aug 1, 2001
The Northern Star Newspaper, Jan 18, 2003
The Northern Star Newspaper, Jan 21, 2003
Artist Publications:
2005 Catalogue
published by Lismore Regional
Art Gallery,
essay written
by Sally Brand, For the exhibition Beyond
The Pink Poodle.
2004 Catalogue produced for touring Exhibition "Surface" ,
Essay written by
Brett Addlington Curator Gold Coast
City Art Gallery.
Published by Queensland
Centre Of Photography.
2003 A Paddock Full Of Cows and Chairs, Catalogue
published for
exhibition
by Lismore
Regional Art Gallery.
Commissions:
Gold Coast
City Council Cultural Heritage Branch 2006
The Gold Coast City Art Gallery 2006
The
Melbourne Performing Arts Museum 2006
The
Visual Arts Network NSW 2005
The
Sunday Magazine 2005
Wellbeing magazine 2002-2005
Penguin Publishing 2004
Standard
Universal knitting mills 2002-2004
The Byron
Bay writers festival 2002 2003 2004
The International Documentary Festival 2003
Landcare Australia 2000-2004
The Australian
Newspaper 2003
Gardening Australia
Magazine 2000-2004
CRC Irrigation Futures (ongoing)
The Gondwana Centre (ongoing)
Website Links:
www.calmackinnon.com
www.byronfineart.com.au
www.Agora-Gallery.com
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