ART RESUME JANE MCKAY

NAME Jane McKay

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 ‘Distant Horizon’, Manyung Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

‘Landscape Abstraction’ , Momentous Arts, Singapore

‘Desolate’, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Western Australia

‘Avalon’ BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA

‘Land’ Code Red Art, Claremont, Western Australia

2004 ‘Night and Day’, Kings Art Gallery Cafe, Kings Perth Hotel, Perth.

2003 West Australian Landscape, Evelyn H. Parker Library, City of Subiaco in conjunction with the

launch of ‘Western Australian Writers, an on-line anthology’. Perth, WA.

2002 'Arial’, Kings Art Gallery Café, Kings Perth Hotel, Perth. WA

2001 Jane McKay, New Works, Bentley Pines Gallery Restaurant, Perth, WA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 John Glover Art Prize, Evandale Tasmania, (short-listed entry)

Sydney Affordable Art Show, Sydney, NSW

Mandurah Inaugural Art Award, Mandurah, Western Australia

‘Vast Land’, Momentous Arts, Singapore

Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Melbourne, VIC

2004 Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Adelaide,South Australia, (short-listed entry)

Richard Martin Fine Art, Sydney, Australia

‘Fragments’ Vivarts Group Exhibition, Monart Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth, WA

‘Out from Down Under and Beyond’, Agora Gallery, Soho, New York, USA

‘Vast’, Span Galleries, Melbourne

2003 ‘Vast’, Moores Building, Fremantle, WA (David Giles, Dragica Milunovic, Deborah Savage)

Margaret River Galleries, Selected Works.

Cossack Art Award, Town of Vincent Art Award, Canning and Katanning Art Awards

‘Left’, Mundaring Arts Centre, Vivarts Group, Mundaring, W.A.

Away from Home', Vivarts Group, Travelling Exhibition, Narrogin, Albany, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Mandurah, Fremantle and Esperance, in conjunction with Art on the Move

Selected works, Linton and Shaw Gallery, Code Red Art, Hawthorn Gallery, Perth

2002 Little Creatures Brewery, Fremantle, Vivarts Group Exhibition

Basoda Gallery, Subiaco, selected works

Vivarts @ 274, Vivarts Group, 274 Gallery, Northbridge, Perth

Hawthorn Gallery of Fine Art, Mount Hawthorn, Perth, Selected Works

Kings Perth Art Café, Kings Perth Hotel, Perth, Vivarts Group Exhibition.

Code Red Art, selected works, Claremont

2001 ‘Jane McKay, Branko Pravika, Michael Kimba’, Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle

‘Seeing Eleven’ Vivarts Group Moores Building, Fremantle

2000 ‘Ho Ho Ho’ AFWA Christmas Show, Moores Building, Fremantle

‘Albany Art Award’, Albany

1999 New Collectables Gallery, Fremantle, Group Exhibition, Dec/Jan.

1998 ‘Boxibition’, Curtin University Exhibition, Bentley

‘Atwell Portrait Prize’, Atwell Gallery, Melville

1997 ‘Field of Dreams’, S.H. Ervin National Trust Gallery, Sydney

‘Love Letters to John MacDonald’, 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney

1996 ‘Selected Works’, The Seahorse Gallery, Sydney

1995 The Axis Gallery, Sydney, selected works

1994 ‘Selected Works’, Ceramics, Gallery Six, Sydney

ART RESUME JANE MCKAY

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005 Community & Cultural Development Grant, Jolimont Primary School, Centenary Art Projects

2005 Artflight Grant from ArtsWA for exhibition at BGH Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2004 Highly Commended, Victoria Park Art Award

2003 Artflight Grant from ArtsWA for group exhibition at Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC.

2002 Rosalie Primary School, Community and Cultural Development Grant from the City of Subiaco,

2000 Art on the Move Grant, Vivarts Touring Exhibition, 'Away From Home', throughout W.A.

COMMISSIONS AND ART PROJECTS

2005 Jolimont Primary School, Centenary Art Projects

Curating and Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award

2004 Art from Recycled Materials, seven workshops for the City of Subiaco
City of Cambridge, design of banner for Council Week
Curating and Judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award

2003 Short-listed for MetroRail Railway percent for Art Project, Perth, Australia

Curating and judging of the Shaun Tan Art Award

Artist in Residence, August / September, Churchlands Senior High School

Co-ordination of City of Subiaco, Library - Mural Project painted by Shaun Tan, Perth

2002 Rosalie Primary School, ‘Under the Sea’, mosaic project with year 5 students

Co-ordination of City of Subiaco, Children’s Library - Mural Project painted by children’s

illustrator Shaun Tan, Perth

Judge for the All Saints Literature Festival for the Primary Art category

2001 City of Subiaco Library, commission for 'Transitions', mosaic, 300 x 100cm, Perth

1997 Double Portrait ‑ oil painting, Private Collector ‑ Sydney

1996 Portrait ‑ pencil drawing, Private Collector ‑ Sydney

Pastel Drawing, Private Collector ‑ Sydney

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005 d+a (Design and Architecture - Asia ) Issue 026, p. 83

Insite Magazine, Summer 2004/2005, p. 94 Homes Design and Art

RTR FM radio Perth, interview, June 23

The Sunday Times, image, page 41, June 19.

Western Suburbs Weekly, June 14, p.10.

The Gazette, Fremantle, June 14^th, Art Scene.

Post Newspapers, ‘Claremont this Month, LA in May’, January, 2005

2004 Gallery & Studio, USA, “Down Under and Beyond, Focuses on Australia and New

Zealand”, June/July/August, 2004

Agora Gallery, New York, Exhibition Catalogue, The Australian & New Zealand Fine Art Exhibition 2004, page 5.

Post Newspapers, page 20, April 3, 2004, ‘Subiaco Today, New York Tomorrow’.

2003 www.artseeninwa.com review of Vast Exhibition, November, Western Australia

Artist’s Chronicle, November, page 8., Western Australia

Sunday Times, November 16^th, Prestige Properties p. 14, work photographed, WA..

2002 Eastern Suburbs Reporter, December 10^th, page 23, Perth

Western Suburbs Weekly, December 10^th, page 71, Perth

Talk About Subi, March Issue, cover page, Perth

The West Australian, Habitat page 9, featured art work.

2001 'Away from Home', Crate News, Art on the Move, page 6, July, Page 13, Dec. W.A.

‘Seeing Eleven’, Vivarts Group Exhibition, artseen.vbw.com

2000 100° Western Australian Art No 6: 125 W.A Artists, Curtin University, School of Art, page 31

‘The West Australian’, Big Weekend, December 23^rd, ‘On Show’, David Bromfield, p.6

ART RESUME JANE MCKAY

COLLECTIONS

Austrade (Australian Trade Commission) Singapore

City of Subiaco

Powell Management Services

Wilson & Atkinson Barristers and Solicitors

Chambers of Francis Burt,

Real Asset Services

Moora Fine Art Society

Seaforth Print Collection - Sydney

Law School - Macquarie University

(limited copyright, drawings for book covers)

Private collectors in Australia, United Kingdom,

Sweden, Canada, USA and Singapore.

EDUCATION

2001 Bachelor of Arts (Art) Curtin University WA

1997 Diploma in Fine Art – first year, Seaforth College of TAFE

1996 Certificate in Fine Arts, Seaforth College of TAFE

1984 Bachelor of Education, University of Tasmania