Artist Statement
Caroline Mackenzie is a British sculpture artist, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2016.
Her theatrical artistic practice, which includes sculpture, installation, moving image & sound explores the conceptual aesthetic of suspension. This is investigated through a physical play with gravity, as well as the metaphorical notion of creating a suspended disbelief within her audience.
Some of the objects take on a live performative presence, sitting in-between fact (science) and fiction (cinema). Physics makes way for trickery, as these otherworldly objects are often recognisable from the language of product design or derived from film or theatre sets. The work manifests as contained ephemeral environments where the audience activates the work.
Dappled light often typifies her work, as investigations with light and space focusing on transparency through materials attempt to evoke a sensory response from her audience.
Education
2014-2016 - Royal College of Art, London. MA Sculpture
2004-2007 - Central Saint Martins College, London. BA Fine Art
2003-2004 - Kingston University, Surrey. Foundation Studies in Art & Design
Awards
Shortlisted for the Royal College of Art Graduate 'Sculpture Town prize' Award 2016 - Selected by RCA senior tutors and visiting examiner, Laurence Sillars (former curator of Tate Liverpool, The Baltic & current The Henry Moore Institute)
Shortlisted for the Neo:Artprize 2019, judges/curators:
Sacha Craddock - Art Critic & Curator
William Lunn - Director, Copperfield Gallery London
Helena Wewiora - Director, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Jordan Baseman - Senior Tutor in Moving Image, RCA
Exhibitions
Upcoming: Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, September 2021
2020:
Curated 'Time Piece 2020', virtual international arts festival with Mithu Sen, Andy Holden, Rebecca Jagoe, Sivan Rubinstein, Jali Madi, Remi Harris, Mark Schmidt & Elizabeth Jane Burnett (21-27 Sept. 2020)
2019:
Flash, 2019, was shown as part of Swallowsfeet Collective's first 'Oops @ OH', performance art event at Bermondsey's Biscuit Factory, Nov.
'Flux, 2017' was shown as part of 2019's international 'Oops Festival' curated by Swallowsfeet Collective, at The Old Market Theatre, Brighton. March 22nd-24th March 2019
Soloing, 2019 was part of 'Black Box artist residency' at Farnham University of the Creative Arts, Surrey. 11th March - 29th March.
'Kaipo Che! artist residency' in Vadodara, India for Gujarat's annual Kite Festival. Sponsored by ArtCore UK & The British Arts Council. January 4th-21st January
2018:
Flow II (solo show), Mount Florida Gallery, 37 Clincart Rd, Glasgow G42 9DZ. August
Flow (solo show), Art Hub Gallery, 5-9 Creekside, Deptford, SE8 4SA. July
2017:
Birthday Party, APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA. September.
REcreative short film night, South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH. August
Creekside Open, A.P.T Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA. May
14TH CINEMA [14.01.17], 147 Curtain Road, Shoreditch. January
We're All Involved in This Mess, Enclave Lab, Deptford. April
2016:
Canned Laughs; a natural high, RCA PS1. January
Stewarts Law RCA Secret 2016, RCA Dyson Building. April
Sweat, Camden Arts Centre, Camden. April
RCA Degree Show 2016. June
2015:
Cityscapes, Ugly Duck, Bermondsey. April
RCA Secret, RCA, Dyson Building, Battersea, London. March
ECA & RCA Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Sculpture Court, Edinburgh. February
RCA WIP Show, RCA, Sculpture building, Howie Street, London. January
2014:
Hidden Rooms, Venue Ca' Zanardi, Venice. November
RCA Drawing Show, RCA, Sculpture building, Howie Street, London. October
Conspire; Home, 47/49 Tanner Street, London. March
2007-2013
Start 13:The New Industrialists, Bermondsey Project Space, London. February 2013
Annual Open 28, Cafe Gallery Project, London. November 2012
Morphology, Pop-Up Gallery London. September 2009
For My Part, James Taylor Gallery, London. October 2008
To Take A Way (One), Nolias Gallery, London. July 2007
Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London. June 2007