ARTIST STATEMENT

GEMMA MACKENZIE is an artist who is inspired by events that occur in nature which can cause the state of entities or the environment to become altered. She is interested in questioning at what point changes within nature become irreversible and have a permanent affect, as a result of becoming overwhelmed and consumed by these events such as climate change, illnesses and growing mould.

Her work takes inspiration from methods of analysis and the visual outcomes created through testing, predominantly scientific/ medical, to create works that challenge our perception of materials and objects. She questions this through the interaction between materials and the subsequent outcomes of when they are combined, using print, sculptural forms and installations. She explores disturbances within form, pattern and surface. 

Exhibitions

Now and Then: Fringe Arts Bath, Bath 2024

Seeing Red: Chapel Arts Studios, Andover 2024

Speaking Out: Changing Times: The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington 2024

Out With The Old, In With The New: Studio KIND. X Camp Membership, Barnstaple 2024

AGORED 2023: Galeri Caernarfon, Wales 2023

Studio KIND. Summer Open 2023 : Studio KIND. North Devon 2023

South West Printmaking Open 2022: Studio KIND. North Devon 2022

Bloc Projects Members Show: Bloc Projects, Sheffield 2019

The Bath Open Art Prize: 44AD Gallery, Bath 2019

The Bath Open Art Prize: 44AD Gallery, Bath 2017

Graduate Residency Exhibition: KARST, Plymouth 2017

HOT ’16: Plymouth University Degree Show 2016

Re-Defining Print: Plymouth University Printmakers Exhibition 2015: Exeter Phoenix

‘Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize’ Exhibition 2015, Bank Street Arts

Anatomy For Life Exhibition 2015, Anatomy Lab, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

‘Mass Medium’ : Graduate Exhibition 2015, Petroc, Barnstaple

‘Containers of the Self’: Juried Exhibition 2015, Black Earth Gallery, Iowa

Residencies

KARST Graduate Residency 2016/17

Education

BA Fine Art: University of Plymouth 2015- 2016

FDA Fine Art: Petroc 2013-2015

BTEC Extended Diploma Art & Design: Petroc 2011-2013