Christine Mackey

Christine Mackey graduated with a practice-based PhD at the University of Ulster, Belfast (2012). Her practice combines site-specific and public interventions, residencies, pedagogical programmes, exhibitions, and art-books. Recent solo exhibitions include SEED MATTER, Limerick City Gallery of Art (2013); Labor on … as if Draoicht Arts Centre (2013); Living Fields Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2012) and Seed Matter and Other Stories The Butler Gallery (2011). Group shows include Action all Areas IMMA, Dublin, Resistance & Rebellion, ArtLink, Donegal, Dew Line Changing Spaces, Cambridge and Art and Agriculture: Against the Grain, Leitrim Sculpture Centre. Recent public commissions include A Year in the Field – set of two publications commissioned by Fingal County Council (2012) and Meet You Here – site-specific collaborative project OPW/RPA, Roscommon [2012-2013]. Mackey has participated on a range of International and National residency programmes; including; ArtLink Fort Dunree, Donegal (2013), Walking Sideways, Belgium (2012), Art & Sustainability, Cambridge, England (2012); RIAA, Argentina (2009), Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal (2009), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2004). Future residency programmes for 2014 include; Delfina Foundation ‘Politics of Food’, London, Art Lab A.I.R, Rejmyre, Sweden and Killruddery House & Gardens, Wicklow. She works on a free-lance basis with the Community and Educational department at the Irish Museum of Modern Art to develop a range of educational booklets STRANDS in response to their exhibition programmes. Current work is supported by the Arts Council Visual Bursary Award (2013).