Christine Mackey is an Irish artist based in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. She holds a BA in Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and an MA in Time based and Performance Studies from Dartington College of Art. Her practice focuses on drawing, sculpture, sound and performance. She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows in Ireland and internationally. Mackey has received numerous awards and residencies. She has lectured in several colleges and held appointments with various arts organizations.

1. Christine Mackey
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
New Line
Manorhamilton
Co. Leitrim
Ireland
mackeychristine@hotmail.com
087-2112161.
Education
2007-2010 Practice-based PhD University of Ulster, Belfast
2002 MA Time based and Performance Studies, Dartington College of Art
1992 BA in Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Selected solo and group exhibitions
2009 Sound-Lines e-MobilArts The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece
Sound-Lines e-MobilArts The Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland
Its not what I have started… Studio Golo Brdo, Croatia (solo exhibition)
The Garden for Ostenda and other works RIAA – Argentina www.proyectoriaa.org
Intimate Formations Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Riverwork(s) Bristol Artist’s Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, U.K
Riverwork(s) 12th International Book Exhibition, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K
Riverwork(s) Liverpool Artists Book Fair, A Foundation’s Greenland Street Gallery, U.K
2008 RIVERwork(s) The Sligo Art Gallery, Exhibition and Publication (solo exhibition)
India MEDIATIONS II BIENNALE Museum Of Modern Art, Poznan, Poland
Sewing lines Limerick City Gallery of Art Drawing Collection, Roscommon Arts Centre
Way Marks New Drawing Works, Drogheda Arts Centre, Curator Ruairi O’Cuiv
Reconnaissance 100 Intervention, Birr Arts Festival, Curator Eilish Lavelle
Temp. Response Unit New Sites New Fields Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Curator Sean O Rielly
Trade-Off TRADE Residency with Alfredo Jaar. Site-specific Interventions and Exhibition.
India UNOACTU Dresden, Prager Spitze, Germany
Way Marks COE Claremorris Open, Mayo, Curator Ingrid Swenson
India Camouflash Patio Art Center in Lodz, Poland
2006 40 Shades of Green CHICAGO EXPO SOFA
Points of Departure The Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland (solo exhibition)
Tidings – from here to there The Lab Galley, Dublin (solo exhibition)
Provisional Doubting Straits Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2005 Provisional Teor/e Tica, Costa Rica, Central America (solo exhibition)
40 Shades of Green Dixon Galley, Memphis, U.S.A/Gallerija Arka, Lithuania
This Place Site-ations International, Sense in Place, Irish representative in Wales.
40 Shades of Green Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
In progress 2004 The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Process Room, Dublin, Ireland
Exploring Drawing Skibberean Arts Center, Cork
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2. Longitude/Latitude Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
Trunk Show Artist as Traveller, King House, Roscommon and Sirius Arts Gallery, Cork.
Imagine ev+a Limerick City Gallery of Art, Curator Zdenka Badinovae
2003 Fragments The Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo (solo exhibition)
International and national residencies
2009 RIAA – Argentina
www.proyectoriaa.org
Drawing Spaces, Lisbon, Portugal
http://drawingspacesen.weebly.com
2008-9 e-MobilArt
http://www.media.uoa.gr/emobilart
The Nature of Sligo, Kids Own Publishing Partnership, Sligo
www.practice.ie
2007 Exercises In Folkatronic, Dublin
www.visualartists.ie
Visual Dialogues, North Tipperary Arts County Office.
www.tipperarynorth.ie
TRADE with artist Alfredo Jaar, Leitrim/Roscommon Co.Co.
www.AFTER.ie
Sanskriti Art Foundation, New Delphi, India
http://www.sanskritifoundation.org/
2005 Firestation Artists Studios –Arts Residency Award
http://www.firestation.ie/
Site-ations International, Wales.
www.site-ations.org/sense
Fundación Arts Teor é Tica, Costa Rica, Central America
www.teoretica.org
2004 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
www.imma.ie
2003 The Belltable Arts Centre, Young EV+A, Limerick
www.eva.ie
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Leitrim County Council Award
www.tyroneguthrie.ie
Awards and commissions
2009 International Trade Bursary, Leitrim County Council
Culture Ireland, International Travel Bursary
Travel and Training Award, The Arts Council, Ireland
2008 Culture Ireland, International Travel Bursary
Visual Arts Bursary Award, The Arts Council, Dublin
Travel Award, University of Ulster, Belfast
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3. One-off Project Award (AFTER), The Arts Council, Dublin
Research Bursary Award, Leitrim County Council
2007 Visual Artist Bursary, The Arts Council, Ireland
Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarship, University of Ulster, Belfast
TRADE Residency with Alfredo Jaar – Leitrim County Council
2006-8 Sligo County Council, Exhibition and Publication
2006 Publication Award, Arts Council, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002 Racecourse View Estate, (Out-door public sculpture) Sligo.
2001 Lough MacNean Sculpture Trail, Fermanagh - short film and sound installation)
2000 The Women's Centre, (Permanent Installation), Derry.
Selected Publications/Catalogues/Reviews
2008 RIVERwork(s) Publication funded by Sligo Local Authorites Arts Office with additional support from The Arts
Council of Ireland and The Sligo Art Gallery. www.sligoarts.ie (purchase publications from: www.recirca.com)
Visual Artists Ireland AFTER
CIRCA AFTER
THE LAB Gallery 40 Exhibitions Publication 06-08, Dublin City Council.
2007 Site-ations International, Sense in Place Editor Sean O’ Reilly.
The Irish Time Arts Review AFTER
2006 Tidings from here to there, Published and funded by Dublin City Council.
Points of Departure, Context Gallery Publication funded by The Arts Council
N. Ireland and The Arts Council, Ireland.
Estrecho Dudoso Teor/eTica Gallery, Curated by Virginia Perrez Ratton Published and Funded by the Getty
Foundation, America, www.estrechodudoso.com
ANNAGHMAKERRIG Editor Sheila Pratschke, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
Irish Museum of Modern Art Education and Community Catalogue, Curator Lisa Moran.
Site-ations International, “Sense in Place”, Editor Sean O’ Reilly.
DRAFT – work in progress: Leitrim & Roscommon County Council.
Circa No. 119, Spring, Art Review, Julie Bacon.
2005 Forty Shades of Green – A Convergence of art and Craft, Editor Brian Kennedy.
2004 EV+A “Imagine” Curator Zdenka Badinovae (Slovenia).
2003 EV+A “on the border of …r” Curator Virginia Perez-Ratton.
5 Years On Curator Nathalie Weadick (Kilkenny Arts Festival).
Circa No. 104 Summer 2003 ( limerick: EV+a) Dr. Kieran Cashell.
5 Years On Curator Nathalie Weadick (Kilkenny Arts Festival).
2001 EV+A "expanded”, Curator Salahm Hassan (Sudan/U.S.A).
Circa No. 95 Spring 2001, Declan Sheehan.
Selected Appointments
2009 ISEA (selection committee-voluntary), University of Belfast.
2008-9 ‘The Nature of Sligo’, Kids Own Publishing Partnership, Sligo.
2006-onwards Volunter for Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim.
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4. 2009 Visiting Lecturer UUBelfast – MA in Public.
2008 Visiting Lecturer D.I.T Art College.
2006-7 Research Artist for ‘New Sites – New Field’ Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2005-6 Researcher for SITE-ATIONS International Conference ‘Sense in place’.
2006 Visiting Lecturer, W.I.T Art College.
2006 Public Arts Researcher, Sculpture in Woodland, Wicklow.
2004-6 Drawing Workshops, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
2002-5 Pilot Arts Program in Association with The Irish Museum Modern Art and
Leitrim County Council. Co-curated an exhibition from the National Collection IMMA with Staff from Leitrim County
Council.
2004 Public Arts Officer, Leitrim County Council.
2003 The Belltable Arts Centre, Young EV+A, Limerick.
2003 Kids Own Publishing, Sligo. Worked with a variety of groups in Northern Ireland,
introducing technology and art to community groups, school groups and after school children groups.
2001 Glenfarne National School, Artist in Residence, Leitrim County Council.
Sligo Women’s Traveler Group, Colloney, Sligo, V.E.C.
North Leitrim Men’s Group. Artist in residence funded by the Arts Council and the Men’s Group.
2000 Maguires Bridge National School, Fermanagh. Art workshops.
Cranmore Women's Group. Sligo Leader Partnership under the Arts Office.
1999 Drumkerrin National School, Artist in Residence, Leitrim County Council.
1998-99 North Leitrim Men's Group, Leitrim.
Pigs Back Theatre, Scenic Artist, Dublin.
1996-97 The Galway Film Centre, Arts Administrator.
The Galway Arts Festival, Arts Administrator.
1995-96 Galway County Council, Curated an exhibition of Irish Artist for exhibition in Brittany.
Director of Irish Hungarian Arts through the Galway Arts officer.
Work experience with James Harrold, Galway’s Arts Officer.
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