JANE MCKENZIE, BIO + CV
Jane McKenzie is a Sydney-based artist whose ceramic sculptures find their genesis in Modernist architecture. It is not surprising given McKenzie’s artistic practice is backed by a twenty-year career as an architect.
Turning to a visual language that is anchored in form and geometry, McKenzie is influenced by the buildings of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and the sculptures of Ruth Duckworth and Isamu Noguchi. She says: ‘The sculptures are not intended to represent buildings, but entice the viewer to look through and around the pieces, and perhaps wonder what it might be like to be inside.’
McKenzie’s work has been included in group exhibitions across regional and metropolitan NSW. Her sculptures were exhibited alongside works by ceramicists from across Australia in Ceramics 2017 at Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney, and included in The Design Files: Open House in Melbourne in late 2017.
McKenzie uses slab-building techniques, turning to terracotta clay for its honesty, along with a restricted palette of white and black glazes or surface finishes that contrast with the clay’s natural colour.
In 2016 McKenzie was selected for a Fremantle Arts Centre studio residency in Western Australia. It followed her being awarded the Muswellbrook Art Prize for Ceramics in 2015. Her work is represented in the Collections of the National Art School and Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, alongside various private collections.
McKenzie graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art form the National Art School in 2016 and is currently working towards her Master of Fine Art.
EDUCATION
1993. Bachelor of Architecture (Hons.), Curtin University, WA
1996. Master of Arts (Building Conservation), University of York, UK
2016. Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics), National Art School, NSW
EXHIBITIONS
2017. The Design Files Open House, VIC
2017. It's not all black and white, Mansfield Gallery, NSW
2017. Ceramics 2017, Maunsell Wickes, NSW
2017. Landshape, Sheffer Gallery, NSW
2017. 27.04.17, Home@735 Gallery, NSW
2017. Graduations, ARO Gallery, NSW
2017. A Fresh Perspective, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, NSW
2016. National Art School Graduate Exhibition, NSW
2016. Bokor, Ferguson and McKenzie, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW
2016. The Painted Object, Stairwell Gallery, NSW
2015. Who is looking at you?, Cambridge Studio Gallery, VIC
2015. 43rd Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW
AWARDS
2016. Mansfield Gallery Exhibition Prize
2016. Kerrie Lowe Gallery Exhibition Prize
2015. Muswellbrook Art Prize – Section C (Ceramics)
RESIDENCIES
2016. Fremantle Arts Centre (5 weeks)
COLLECTIONS
National Art School, NSW
Muswellbrook Shire Council, NSW
Various Private Collections